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The task is to get introduced to Participatory Action Research.
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You benefit most from this task by having done the previous 3 tasks in this section.<br /> <br /> Participatory Action Research and Action Research are both types of Applied Research because they start out by defining a specific goal to be reached from the research. The difference lies in what kind of specific goals you define, in the method(s) used to obtain/reach the goal and in the way results are used.<br /> <br /> I have chosen to give this introduction to PAR here in Section One – because that is where it rightfully belongs, however we have dedicated the next couple of sections to dig into PAR in its own right since this is the type of research we are conducting and which you will also be doing.<br /> <br /> PAR has its origin in the work of Third World social scientists two decades ago as they brought new ways to empower the oppressed by helping them to acquire reliable knowledge on which to construct countervailing power. It has since spread throughout the world.<br /> PAR is an innovative approach to economic and social change, which goes beyond usual institutional boundaries in development by actively involving the people in generating knowledge about their own condition and how it can be changed. PAR requires a strong commitment by participating social scientists to deprofessionalize their expertise and share it with the people, while recognizing that the communities directly involved have the critical voice in determining the direction and goals as subjects rather than objects.<br /> <br /> A little about the authors of the files for this task:<br /> <br /> <u>Juliet Merrifield</u> joined the staff of the Highlander Center in the US, as co-director of its research program together with John Gaventa in 1977. By that time the Highlander Center had 45-years of history of working for social and economic justice in Appalachia and South and she had to face new challenges: what is the role of research in a center committed to experiential education, which values experience more than formal education, action more than book knowledge? And how do you do research in a way that empowered people not researchers?<br /> <br /> <u>Orlando Fals-Borda and Muhammad Anisur Rahman</u> are – as <u>Paulo Freire</u> – among the pioneers in Participatory Action Research. They are from Colombia and Bangladesh respectively.
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This task is scheduled for 5 hours.<br /> <ol> <li>Read the files in your trio:</li> </ol> - Knowing, Learning, Doing: Participatory Action Research. National Center for the Study of Adult Learning and Literacy, by Juliet Merrifield, February 1997.<br /> - Some basic Ingredients. Orlando Fals-Borda.<br /> - The theoretical standpoint of PAR. Muhammad Anisur Rahman.<br /> - A self-review of PAR. Orlando Fals-Borda and Muhammad Anisur Rahman.<br /> All three files from the book: “Action and Knowledge – Breaking the monopoly with Participatory Action-Research”, by Orlando Fals-Borda and Muhammad Anisur Rahman, page 3-34, The Apex Press. <ol> <li>Discuss in your trio where PAR differs from basic and applied research? What philosophy and human outlook does PAR reflect? What are the characteristic of PAR? Why do you think PAR was “invented” in the Third World?</li> <li>Send your conclusions to your teacher.</li> </ol>
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