Action and Knowledge: Breaking the Monopoly With Participatory Action Research

Fals-Borda, Orlando; Rahman, Mohammad Anisur

ISBN 10: 0945257570 / ISBN 13: 9780945257578

Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1991

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Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers I-9780945257578

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Action and Knowledge: Breaking the Monopoly With Participatory Action Research
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0945257570
• ISBN-13: 9780945257578
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: New

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Action and Knowledge draws on twenty years of experience with the techniques and philosophy of Participatory Action-Research (PAR). 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 of change as subjects rather than objects.

PAR has its origins in the work of Third World social scientists more than three 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, as reflected in this book with contributions from Asia, Africa Latin America and North America in the form of case studies of actual experience with the PAR approach.

PAR is not static and fixed but dynamic and enduring, as the case studies and the theoretical chapters that precede and follow the case studies amply reveal.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.