Browsing by Author "Tandon, Rajesh"

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A note on the Participatory Research Project in the Asian region
(1981) Tandon, Rajesh
This paper traces the rise of participatory research as a response to the limits of conventional social science, linking it to wider struggles for democracy and development. It reflects on both its potential and contradictions, framing it as an ongoing project rather than a finished method.
A policy brief on knowledge mobilization: The power of creativity and action
(UNESCO Chair, 2022-05-11) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, Rajesh
This brief fits within the Data and Knowledge Production theme, but also relates to the Futures of Higher Education and the Higher Education and the SDGs themes. If we are to meet the challenges of our times, the research produced within higher education institutions and their partners needs a dramatic shift from the academic mode of knowledge production to a societal mode of knowledge production and sharing. it will require that attention be given to the creation of locally contextualised knowledge with priorities for action that affect the everyday lives of people where they live and work. The Active participation of local stake-holders---community, local governments, local business, women & youth-in co-producing and sharing the knowledge of such local solutions can be facilitated through their involvement in the research process. Knowledge mobilization (KmB) is therefore called for. Our brief provides a context for understanding the need for KmB as well as providing examples of how creative or arts-based approaches to KmB have been proven to be effective.
Action research: Assumptions and practice
(Public Enterprises Centre for Continuing Education, 0000) Tandon, Rajesh
Adult Education, Culture Development and Social Movements: The Contemporary Challenge
( Society for Participatory Research In Asia (PRIA), 1993-04-27) Tandon, Rajesh
African Regional Workshop on Participatory Research (1-7 July): "From Clarity to Anarchy – Participatory Research Approach"
(PRIA, 1979-07) Tandon, Rajesh
Against Epistemicide: Decolonising Higher Education
(2020) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, Rajesh
Asian regional participatory research network: A note
(1985) Tandon, Rajesh
Beyond partnerships: Embracing complexity to understand and improve research collaboration for global development
(2021) Fransman, Jude; Hall, Budd L; Hayman, Rachel; Narayanan, Pradeep; Newman, Kate; Tandon, Rajesh
While there is a burgeoning literature on the benefits of research collaboration for development, it tends to promote the idea of the ‘partnership’ as a bounded site in which interventions to improve collaborative practice can be made. This article draws on complexity theory and systems thinking to argue that such an assumption is problematic, divorcing collaboration from wider systems of research and practice. Instead, a systemic framework for understanding and evaluating collaboration is proposed. This framework is used to reflect on a set of principles for fair and equitable research collaboration that emerged from a programme of strategic research and capacity strengthening conducted by the Rethinking Research Collaborative (RRC) for the United Kingdom (UK)’s primary research funder: UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). The article concludes that a systemic conceptualisation of collaboration is more responsive than a ‘partnership’ approach, both to the principles of fairness and equity and also to uncertain futures.
Bridging knowledge cultures: A guide for community practitioners and community organizations
(UNESCO Chair, 2024) Lepore, Walter; Hall, Budd L; Tandon, Rajesh
Bridging the gap between the researcher and the community: PRIA’s engagements in promoting community based research and social responsibility in higher educational institutions
(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2014) Tandon, Rajesh; Singh, Wafa; Srinivasan, Sumitra
PRIA has engaged with academia in a multitude of interventions, bringing community and practitioner knowledge into the portals of traditional research institutions and processes. By doing this, PRIA has helped Higher Educational Institutions (HEls) realize their social responsibility towards a community's needs and aspirations. This document traces PRIA's work in promoting community engagement within HEls in India and beyond. The experience, garnered over three decades, have been classified into six categories to highlight the different forms PRIA's interventions as a facilitator have taken to build bridges between the world of formal research, the practitioner knowledge of civil society actors and the experiential knowledge of local communities. The experiences discussed in this paper are not intended to be comprehensive; a few specific interventions are described under each category to illustrate the nature of the engagements fostered and the practices promoted.
Case Study on the Role of Adult Education in Community Involvement for Primary Health Care
(1983-05) Tandon, Rajesh
Challenges in the co-construction of knowledge: A global study on strengthening structures for community university research partnerships
(0000) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, Rajesh; Tremblay, Crystal; Singh, Wafa
Civil engagement in higher education and its role in Human & Social Development
(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2007-07) Tandon, Rajesh
Collaborative participatory research in gender mainstreaming in social change organizations
(Participatory research in Asia (PRIA), 2006-11-19) Tandon, Rajesh; Farrell, Martha
Unequal gender relations in societies, specially developing countries, have been focus of development programmes for decades. Much of this focus has been on changing gender relations in communities. However, organisations - governmental and private also reflect similar patterns of gender relations. Advocacy for gender mainstreaming in organisations has had limited success due to prescriptive approach. PRIA has adopted a learning process approach to gender mainstreaming in development NGOs in India. Collaborative Research methodology has been utilized towards this end. This paper describes one such case and draws implications for future research and practice.
Commentary on the progress report on the futures of education
(UNESCO Chair, 2020-04-24) Tandon, Rajesh; Hall, Budd L
Community based participatory research & sustainable development goals
(2017) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, Rajesh
Community Based Participatory Research with Dr. Rajesh Tandon-Podcast, Episode 1
(The Action Research Podcast, 2021-09-21) Tandon, Rajesh
Community engagement as a way forward for sustainable rural societies
(UNESCO Chair, 2017-09-22) Singh, Wafa; Tandon, Rajesh
With over 70% of the Indian population residing in villages, it can be said that it is the 'villages, where the heart of India resides. Despite such a large rural population, the unsustainable socio-economic conditions plaguing our rural societies, even after 70 years of independence, is nothing short of a distress situation. This calls for immediate actions for improving rural conditions, and for this to happen, higher education, historically recognized as 'public institutions', needs to step in. With the sea of knowledge and resources at its disposal, it can ably pursue the agenda of sustainable development of rural societies. One of the potent tools for making this happen is community engagement. The core purpose of such engagement is to serve mutual interests of universities and communities alike. In practice, this can be executed in several ways such as engaged scholarship practices like service-learning, community based participatory research etc., with the initiatives focused on specific Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the rural context. This paper makes the case for such engagement for ensuring the creation of sustainable and self-reliant rural societies.
Community engagement in higher education institutions: Status report 2015
(UNESCO Chair, 2015-04) Tandon, Rajesh; Singh, Wafa
Community Participation
(2000) Tandon, Rajesh