Education, Participatory Action Research, and Social Change: International Perspectives

Front Matter....Pages i-ix
Introduction: International Perspectives on Education, PAR, and Social Change....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
From a Methodology of the Margins to Neoliberal Appropriation and Beyond: The Lineages of PAR....Pages 15-27
Participatory academic research (par) and People’s Participatory Action Research (PAR): Research, Politicization, and Subaltern Social Movements in India....Pages 29-44
When Research Becomes a Revolution: Participatory Action Research with Indigenous Peoples....Pages 45-58
Ko tātou te rangahau, ko te rangahau, ko tātou: A Māori Approach to Participatory Action Research....Pages 59-72
Translating “Participation” from North to South: A Case Against Intellectual Imperialism in Social Science Research....Pages 73-88
Action Research for Curriculum Internationalization: Education versus Commercialization....Pages 89-105
Critical Complexity and Participatory Action Research: Decolonizing “Democratic” Knowledge Production....Pages 107-121
Reconceptualizing Participatory Action Research for Sustainability Education....Pages 123-136
Front Matter....Pages 137-137
Chara chimwe hachitswanyi inda: Indigenizing Science Education in Zimbabwe....Pages 139-153
Research and Agency: The Case of Rural Women and Land Tenure in Tanzania....Pages 155-168
NGO-Community Partnerships, PAR, and Learning in Mining Struggles in Ghana....Pages 169-180
Ethnography-in-Motion: Neoliberalism and the Shack Dwellers Movement in South Africa....Pages 181-193
Kabyle Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) in Algeria: Reflections on Research, Amazigh Identity, and Schooling....Pages 195-207
Notes and Queries for an Activist Street Anthropology: Street Resistance, Gringopolítica, and the Quest for Subaltern Visions in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil....Pages 209-222
A Participatory Research Approach to Exploring Social Movement Learning in the Chilean Women’s Movement....Pages 223-237
Participatory Research, NGOs, and Grassroots Development: Challenges in Rural Bangladesh....Pages 239-250
Making Space for Youth: iHuman Youth Society and Arts-Based Participatory Research with Street-Involved Youth in Canada....Pages 251-264
Back Matter....Pages 265-274