Overview
- Examines how Participatory Action Research (PAR) is currently being understood and practiced among the diverse communities of education practitioners and policymakers in South Asia
- Brings together assortment of authors from the field of education and participatory development, representing strong believers in participatory approaches in research, extension, and development, as well as skeptics
- Offers a combined focus on PAR, education, and South Asia drawing from the socio-cultural approach to policy analysis
Part of the book series: South Asian Education Policy, Research, and Practice (SAEPRP)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Reviews
“Thought-provoking and accessible, this book challenges the taken-for-granted approaches to restructuring education by positioning practice as vitally informing policy, and by effectively demonstrating how perspectives from research and practice can be combined.” (Amita Gupta, School of Education, The City College of New York, USA)
“This book is a welcome addition to the hitherto slender collection of research material in contrast to conventional research methods. Combining research with field-based observation, the book is an important key reference for studies related to an interface between education and participatory development in South Asia.” (Mondira Dutta, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, India)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Radhika Iyengar is Director of Education for the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA.
Matthew A. Witenstein is Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Education at University of Redlands, USA, where he helps coordinate the doctoral program.
Erik Jon Byker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading and Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.
Rohit Setty is a recent United States–India Educational Foundation Fulbright–Nehru Fellow with the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s Regional Institute of Education, Mysore, India, and a graduate of theUniversity of Michigan, USA.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Participatory Action Research and Educational Development
Book Subtitle: South Asian Perspectives
Editors: Huma Kidwai, Radhika Iyengar, Matthew A. Witenstein, Erik Jon Byker, Rohit Setty
Series Title: South Asian Education Policy, Research, and Practice
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48905-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Education, Education (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-84043-7Published: 21 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-48905-6Published: 11 April 2017
Series ISSN: 2946-4439
Series E-ISSN: 2946-4447
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXIX, 290
Topics: International and Comparative Education, Educational Policy and Politics, History of South Asia