Knowledge Democracy and Participatory Research
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Welcome to the Knowledge Democracy and Participatory Research Community. This community serves as a comprehensive repository of resources on participatory approaches, community-based research, and collaborative inquiry methods. Our mission is to foster knowledge sharing and support initiatives that empower communities to contribute to research, ensuring their voices shape the knowledge that impacts their lives.
Explore a wealth of materials, including case studies, policy papers, training guides, and research publications that highlight the practice and principles of participatory research worldwide.
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Item Global foundations of community based research(0000) Tandon, Rajesh; Hall, Budd LItem 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, WafaItem From clarity to anarchy: Participatory research approach(1979) Tandon, RajeshAs debates on participatory research gained ground in the late 1970s, questions arose about whether it was a methodology, a political stance, or something in between. This paper, presented at the African Regional Workshop on Participatory Research, examines those tensions by contrasting the perspectives of grassroots activists with those of professional researchers. It considers how participatory research challenges the conventions of classical inquiry by embracing action and subjectivity, yet in doing so risks appearing unruly or even anarchic. Rather than seeking neat resolutions, the study positions participatory research as an unsettled and evolving practice, shaped as much by politics as by method.Item The Indian Urban Elites: An Exploratory Study(0000) De, Nitish R.; Tandon, RajeshWhat are the characteristics of Indian urban elites? Using data from a survey conducted in the city of Calcutta, this paper seeks to test a series of propositions of different dimensions: political, economic, social, professional, role, and self. At the end, a number of unresolved issues have been raised which provide guidelines for future research in the area.Item A Report on the Asian Regional Meeting of Participatory Research(PRA, 1979) Tandon, RajeshA regional (Asian) meeting of participatory research was organized in Bangkok, Thailand with the assistance of ASPBAE during April, 1979. The participants included one representative from Philippines, Korea, Bangladesh, Australia and India, and ten Thais.. There was also a representative from UNESCO, Dr J.R. Kidd also participated in the meeting for a part of the time. Two Qanadian colleagues presently doing fieldwork in Thailand also joined. This was a first meeting of its kind organized in a limited fashion to strengthen Participatory Research in Asia. Specifically, the objectives of the meeting were: (a) to discuss and understand the concept of Participatory Research approach; (b) to share experiences of Participatory Research from various countries in Asia; (c) to develop mechanisms for extending the network of Participatory Research in Asia.Item Participatory Research(0000) Tandon, RajeshDuring the last decade, major debate has taken place on the inadequacies of models and strategies of development initiated during the 50s and 60s. Bulk of the criticism has centred around the lien and western nature of these development models and strategies and top-down approach centred on technology and economism. It has been argued that people's participation in their own development is the only alternative towards solving major problems confronting the world in general and the developed countries in particular. As a result, now efforts have been Launched in different settings to mobilise and organize local groups to take charge of their own development through the process of collective action in their common interest. moreover, new awareness of such ongoing efforts has also developed among those concerned with the problems of development.Item Knowledge as Power: Participatory Research as Alternative(0000) Tandon, RajeshIn the situation of inequalities of which the majority of our country's citizens are victims, the search for the bases of power leads us to one factor that is not easily acknowledged, viz. knowledge as power. Physical force and economic strength are tools of keeping others under control. Political power rein-forces such a situation of power and powerlessness. In recent years, particularly since the growth of organised sciences, the monopoly of knowledge has functioned as a major factor rein-forcing the division of society into 'haves' and 'have-nots', or the powerful and the powerless. This paper will therefore try to attempt an understanding of knowledge as a source of power, its monopoly as a mode of keeping people divided and under control and of strengthening the already powerful. It will then try to find a solution in the form of participatory research which values people's knowledge as against externally imposed scientific knowledge which can be monopolised by only a few.Item Issues and Experiences in Participatory Research in Asia(1979-06-25) Tandon, RajeshThe concept and meaning of Participatory Research (PR) has been amply discussed in the various articles and seminars during the past three years. While it is important to briefly indicate my own understanding of PR, this paper is primarily an attempt to put together some key characteristics of PR in Asia. The paper is based on the recent meetings. held in India and Thailand as well as a number of reports received from the various researchers.PR is an attempt, in my view, to move beyond the chocking limitations of classical social sciences research.Item The Historical roots and contemporary tendencies in Participatory Research: Implications for Health care(0000) Tandon, RajeshThis paper delves into the historical roots and contemporary tendencies of participatory research (PR), particularly in the context of health care. It examines the evolution of PR as a critique of traditional social science methodologies and as an educational process rooted in adult education practices. Drawing on the works of Paulo Freire, Ivan Illich, and others, the paper highlights the epistemological shifts brought about by PR. It discusses how PR legitimizes experience and action as bases for knowing and integrates these into a framework of popular education. The implications of PR for addressing inequalities in health care and fostering community participation in knowledge creation are also explored.Item Interviews as Catalysts in a Community Setting(American Psychological Association, 1978) Brown, L. Dave; Tandon, RajeshThis study examines the effects of interviews about community experience on the attitudes and behavior of adult residents in two newly developed condominium communities. Volunteers and a randomly selected experimental group were interviewed, and their responses to community experience questionnaires were analyzed shortly after the interviews and again six months later. Interviewed respondents reported more involvement in their communities and exhibited more activism in community affairs than non-interviewed controls. The study explores the dynamics of interviews as catalytic events and discusses the implications of these findings for future research involving interviews.