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    Looking back, looking forward-Reflections on the International Participatory Research Network
    (Forests, Trees and People Newsletter, 1999) Hall, Budd L
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    Fifteen years of Participatory-Research-in-Asia
    (Participation & Governance, 1997) Tandon, Rajesh
    We have just completed fifteen years of our experience as PRIA. The seeds of this organisation were sown by the early work on participatory research during the late 70s. That experience provided the philosophical basis for our work: Knowledge is Power. This perspective inspired the early activities we undertook by promoting a number of initiatives which emphasised recognition and articulation of indigenous popular knowledge in the fields of education, health-care, natural resource management etc. Over the years, different ways of expressing that philosophy gained ascendancy in PRIA's work. Today, our work in strengthening Panchayati Raj Institutions as mechanisms of local self-governance is its most explicit expression. We are using methods of organising and promoting the learning of leadership in local bodies to play their rightful role as self-governing institutions. Special emphasis is being placed on learning and empowerment of new leadership in these institutions: women and socioeconomically weaker sections of society.
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    Participatory research for people's empowerment
    (Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 1999) Prasad, B. Devi; Rao, K. Visweswara
    As new ways of linking knowledge with social change were being sought, participatory research emerged as an approach that questioned the distance between academic inquiry and people’s lived realities. This paper examines participatory research as an approach to knowledge creation that is closely tied to community involvement and social change. Drawing from field experiences, the research demonstrates how engaging people directly in the research process challenges traditional academic hierarchies and foregrounds the realities of the marginalized groups. By placing communities at the center, participatory research shifts the role of the researcher from being an external expert to a facilitator of collective inquiry and action. This approach generates new knowledge while building local capacity and solidarity, and identifying and implementing practical, contextualized solutions to pressing issues. At the same time, PR highlights the tensions between academic institutions that emphasize objectivity and technical expertise, and community groups that prioritize lived experience and immediate outcomes. Despite these differences, PR demonstrates its strength in bridging gaps between theory and practice, institutions and communities, and knowledge and action- making research a transformational process.
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    Democracy and Peace options for Adult Educators
    (ASPBAE, 1991-03-15) Wijetunga, V.M.K.
    When the recent Gulf crisis finally end inevitably escalated into armed conflict of unprecedented proportions, and with equally unprecedented consequences on living things and the environment which sustains life, where were the adult educators, and how loud and resounding were their voices against this human arrogance and folly? Were the adult educators active in the movement against armed conflict? Were they meeting in their learning groups and forums, small and large, and lobbying their legislators and decision-makers? Were they writing; frantically to the local and national newspapers and using whatever other media, to share their apprehensions with others, and to educate others of the impending catastrophe? Or were we mute observers of a tragic situation unfolding before our very eyes or were we trying to run away to safe places, like the Osbornes during the 1961 missile crisis?
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    exCHANGE: Exchanging Development Education Skills to Build Grassroots Participation
    (1993-01) Oxford Development Education Centre (ODEC)
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    Education for Sustainable Development Appropriate Technology & Environment Protection in the South Pacific
    (1992-06-29) Randell, Shirley
    Colleagues in the Asia South Pacific Bureau of Adult Education. It is a pleasure for me to be here at this conference, to be among so many adult educators, to see again people I met recently at Manila and to renew acquaintance with other people I have known for a long time. It is my intention to talk today about environmental adult education, including education for sustainable development and appropriate technology-the trio of interests covered in this conference sub-theme. My discussion will centre on Australian experience in the belief that while the environment is a transnational issue we can all benefit from each other's local experiences in working with it.
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    Community Education & People Centred Development
    (1992-06-27) Ahai, Naihuwo
    Although the theme of this conference is "Community Education", this paper will discuss developmental issues for the following reasons: 1. that the primary goal of governments in any country is to achieve a level of improved life style (development) for its people. Education, in whatever form it takes is crucial to the achievement of the country's developmental goal and in a very real sense, the failure of development to benefit the masses is itself a failure of education in meeting the societies developmental needs. Education therefore is an important tool in redirecting development to benefit the measures. 2. that most education systems of Pacific Island Nations have primarily concerned themselves with the production of manpower that engages itself in economic activities geared towards the improvement of the countries overall Gross National Production. Such emphasis on quantitative aspects of development has ignored the qualitative aspects of development. 3. there is a strong need for the redirection of educational goals at the grass root level in line with the peoples needs in development and resource utilisation. These discussions will focus on Papua New Guinea since this in the Pacific country that I am most familiar with but it is hoped that other countries represented at this conference can reflect and draw upon issues relevant to their specific situation.
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