Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change

International Perspectives

  • Editors
  • Dip Kapoor
  • Steven Jordan
Book

Table of contents

  1. Front Matter
    Pages i-ix
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  2. Introduction: International Perspectives on Education, PAR, and Social Change

    1. Introduction: International Perspectives on Education, PAR, and Social Change
      Dip Kapoor, Steven Jordan
      Pages 1-11

  3. International Perspectives on Education and PAR

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 13-13
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    2. From a Methodology of the Margins to Neoliberal Appropriation and Beyond: The Lineages of PAR
      Steven Jordan
      Pages 15-27
    3. Participatory academic research (par) and People’s Participatory Action Research (PAR): Research, Politicization, and Subaltern Social Movements in India
      Dip Kapoor
      Pages 29-44
    4. When Research Becomes a Revolution: Participatory Action Research with Indigenous Peoples
      Cora Weber-Pillwax
      Pages 45-58
    5. Ko tātou te rangahau, ko te rangahau, ko tātou: A Māori Approach to Participatory Action Research
      Lynne Harata Te Aika, Janinka Greenwood
      Pages 59-72
    6. Translating “Participation” from North to South: A Case Against Intellectual Imperialism in Social Science Research
      Cynthia M. Chambers, Helen Balanoff
      Pages 73-88
    7. Action Research for Curriculum Internationalization: Education versus Commercialization
      Robin McTaggart, Gina Curró
      Pages 89-105
    8. Critical Complexity and Participatory Action Research: Decolonizing “Democratic” Knowledge Production
      Joe L. Kincheloe
      Pages 107-121
    9. Reconceptualizing Participatory Action Research for Sustainability Education
      Elizabeth A. Lange
      Pages 123-136

  4. International Contexts: Case Studies of PAR, Education, and Social Change

    1. Front Matter
      Pages 137-137
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    2. Chara chimwe hachitswanyi inda: Indigenizing Science Education in Zimbabwe
      Edward Shizha
      Pages 139-153
    3. Research and Agency: The Case of Rural Women and Land Tenure in Tanzania
      Christine Hellen Mhina
      Pages 155-168
    4. NGO-Community Partnerships, PAR, and Learning in Mining Struggles in Ghana
      Valerie Kwai Pun
      Pages 169-180
    5. Ethnography-in-Motion: Neoliberalism and the Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa
      Shannon Walsh
      Pages 181-193
    6. Kabyle Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) in Algeria: Reflections on Research, Amazigh Identity, and Schooling
      Taieb Belkacem
      Pages 195-207
    7. Notes and Queries for an Activist Street Anthropology: Street Resistance, Gringopolítica, and the Quest for Subaltern Visions in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil
      Samuel Veissière
      Pages 209-222
    8. A Participatory Research Approach to Exploring Social Movement Learning in the Chilean Women’s Movement
      Donna M. Chovanec, Héctor M. González
      Pages 223-237
    9. Participatory Research, NGOs, and Grassroots Development: Challenges in Rural Bangladesh
      Bijoy P. Barua
      Pages 239-250

About this book

Introduction

Drawing primarily from critical traditions in social and educational research, this book frames contemporary issues and several conceptual, theoretical-analytical and onto-epistemic approaches towards the development and practice of PAR (Participatory Action Research) in multiple educational spaces and initiatives for socio-cultural change.

Keywords

anthropology Chile education educational research research

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