Participatory action research and popular education in Latin America

1992 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Alberto Torres
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Participatory Action

scholarly journals Por uma pedagogia decolonial na América Latina: Convergências entre a educação popular e a investigação-ação participativa

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 84
Author(s):  
João Colares da Mota Neto
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Latin American ◽  
Social Scientist ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
America Latina ◽  
Decolonial Pedagogy

The article analyzes possibilities of convergence between popular education and participatory action research, taking as a reference the thought of the Brazilian pedagogue Paulo Freire and the Colombian social scientist Orlando Fals Borda. In particular, it examines these convergences in order to identify elements for the constitution of a decolonial pedagogy in Latin America. It is a research inserted in the field of the comparative history of Latin American social thought, using as primary sources several works of Paulo Freire and Orlando Fals Borda. The article defends the argument that the convergence between popular education and participatory action research is one of the most fruitful, creative and instigating intellectual contributions ever produced in Latin America, capable of pointing to a decolonial pedagogy that confronts intellectual colonialism, Pedagogical traditionalism and the authoritarianism of modern-colonial science. 

Popular education and its roots

2020 ◽  
pp. 19-40
Author(s):  
Marjorie Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
International Development ◽  
Social Transformation ◽  
Critical Consciousness ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Paulo Freire ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Contemporary Context

Competing definitions of the concept of popular education are summarised, showing how the concept has been developed from different perspectives – and then applied in varying ways, in practice. This sets the context for the discussion of popular education as the basis for developing critical consciousness and social transformation. The chapter goes on to summarise the legacies of previous critical educationalists in USA and elsewhere, including the contributions of British experiences and approaches. These legacies have contributed to the thinking of the legendary Brazilian Paulo Freire and others, in the contemporary context. The final section explores the roots of participatory action research, as these have been developed in India, Latin America and elsewhere, in international development contexts.

Spaces and places for popular education and participatory action research

2020 ◽  
pp. 41-56
Author(s):  
Marjorie Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Lifelong Learning ◽  
Public Services ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Education ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Informal Settings

Governments have supported popular education initiatives in the past. And so have community organisations and social movements. But the spaces for popular education have been shrinking in recent times, as part of the impact of neo-liberal globalisation. Public services have been increasingly subjected to pressures from market forces, pressures that have impacted on community-based education and lifelong learning. Despite these wider pressures, educators have continued to find spaces and places for popular education and participatory action research, however, working across sectors in a variety of contexts. The chapter includes examples of innovatory approaches in both formal settings and informal settings (such as libraries and community centres) including examples from both Northern and Southern American contexts.

Using participatory action research to improve care coordination in Latin America healthcare networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (suppl_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Vitaloni ◽  
I Vargas ◽  
P Eguiguren ◽  
A Mogollón ◽  
I Samico ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Care Coordination ◽  
Participatory Action

Radicalising Community Development within Social Work through Popular Education—A Participatory Action Research Project

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (8) ◽  
pp. 2207-2225 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Westoby ◽  
Athena Lathouras ◽  
Lynda Shevellar
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Community Development ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Action Learning ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Research Approach ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Action Research Approach

AbstractThis article reports upon the efforts of three social work/social science academics in partnership with social and community practitioners, at radicalising community development (CD) within social work. The project was motivated by painful political events and processes unfolding around the world in 2017 and led to the design of a participatory action research approach with thirty-three practitioners. Engaging in several cycles of research (pre- and post questionnaires, observation, focus groups and interviews) and action learning (a popular education knowledge exchange day, a community of practice day and prototyping new projects) several new initiatives were implemented, including the formation of a new Popular Education Network. Reflections and discussion consider the implications of radicalising CD within social worker practice through combining education, organising and linking to progressive social movements. The article overall makes the case that popular education could be a crucial element in enabling the radicalisation of CD within social work.

Popular knowledge, territorial praxis and counter-hegemony

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marcos Aurelio Saquet
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Popular Knowledge ◽  
Great Circulation

This text was originally published in Portuguese (2019) in Brazil and was also published in Spanish (2020) in Mexico, with great circulation due to the breadth of the approach taken on the historical and dependent formation in Latin America, the possibility of building a popular and territorial paradigm of research and cooperation with the studied subjects (participatory action-research), the practical meanings of reciprocity and popular knowledge (urban and rural, peasants and artisans) and, finally, about our concrete experiences of decolonial and counter-hegemonic territorial praxis.

Popular education in a populist age

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Marjorie Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Underlying Causes

This chapter starts by exploring the growth of Far-Right populism, accompanied by increasing racism, ‘Islamophobia, hate speech and hate crime. What is Far Right populism really about? What are its theoretical roots? And how does Far Right populism impact upon communities, in practice? The Far Right has been providing socially divisive explanations for contemporary problems, exacerbating people’s fears and resentments in challenging times. Popular education and participatory action research have valuable contributions to make, in response, working with communities and social movements to unpack the underlying causes of their problems. working towards more hopeful futures - as part of wider strategies for social justice at local, national and international levels. Subsequent chapters are introduced, in summary, in the final section of this chapter.

Using participatory action research to improve care coordination in Latin America healthcare networks

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (suppl_4) ◽  
Author(s):  
M Vitaloni ◽  
I Vargas ◽  
P Eguiguren ◽  
A Mogollón ◽  
I Samico ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Care Coordination ◽  
Participatory Action

scholarly journals Engaging with feminist postcolonial concerns through participatory action research and intersectionality

2012 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. Schurr ◽  
D. Segebart
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Global South ◽  
Development Research ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Research And Practice

Abstract. This paper deals with the challenges of doing fieldwork as a Western researcher in the "Global South" after the (feminist) postcolonial turn. Debates within developmental geography have addressed the politics of fieldwork, questions of positionality and collaborative, participatory ways to produce knowledge. We intend to enter this discussion to find constructive ways of conducting feminist postcolonial research. Drawing on our own experiences as German researchers and development practitioners in Latin America, we discuss the potential and limits of two central feminist postcolonial approaches in development research and practice: participatory (action) research and intersectionality. Our reflections aim to show how development research and practice may benefit from integrating feminist postcolonial approaches.

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