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Voices of Change

Participatory Research in the United States and Canada

Ted Jackson author Mary Brydon-Miller author Budd Hall author Peter Park author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:13th Jul '93

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Park assembles theoretical and case studies on participatory research in North America, a methodology originated in the Third World, as a tool for organizing social change in communities using self-generated knowledge to bring about freedom, justice, and equality.

Challenging the relevance and validity of academic social science research, participatory research is an important tool for social activists, community workers, and adult educators working with oppressed peoples.This volume describes a grass-roots approach to empowering people for democratic social change. It explains participatory research using exemplary case studies on community organizing, feminist theory, and ecological movements from a wide range of locations in North America. The first collection of essays on participatory research in Canada and the United States, the book is an eloquent demonstration that the same approach to social change is needed in industrialized countries as it is in underdeveloped countries. Challenging the relevance and validity of academic social science research, participatory research is an important tool for social activists, community workers, and adult educators working with oppressed peoples.

ISBN: 9780897893343

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: 454g

224 pages