Participation and Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Environmental Education Processes: For What Are People Empowered?

Autor/in	Le Grange, Lesley
Titel	Participation and Participatory Action Research (PAR) in Environmental Education Processes: For What Are People Empowered?
Quelle	In: Australian Journal of Environmental Education, 25 (2009), S.3-14 (12 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0814-0626
Schlagwörter	Social Justice; Participatory Research; Action Research; Foreign Countries; Environmental Education; Political Attitudes; Case Studies; Teaching Methods; South Africa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Gerechtigkeit; Forschungstätigkeit; Projektforschung; Ausland; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik; Political attitude; Politische Einstellung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Südafrika; Süd-Afrika; Republik Südafrika; Südafrikanische Republik
Abstract	Participatory action research (PAR) derived from anti-colonial struggles in the third world in the 1960s. Traditionally it has been a method of the margins because of its commitment to linking social justice to research. Because of its counter-hegemonic tendency it has had great appeal among environmental educators advocating a socially critical approach to environmental education. However, with the ascendancy of neo-liberal politics in recent years, PAR has become co-opted by international organisations such as the World Bank, IMF, OECD and UNESCO. In this paper I wish to critically examine the notion of participation in PAR, and its changing nature as a consequence of its cooptation into mainstream discourses. I explore "vectors of escape" from its assimilation into mainstream environmental education discourses. In exploring the notion of participation in participatory research processes I draw on South African case studies, which might find resonance in wider contexts. (Contains 1 endnote.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10