Knowledge Democracy / Participatory Research
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Welcome to the Knowledge Democracy / 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.
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Item Challenging the master’s tools: Pedagogies of community-based participatory research(2014) Hall, Budd L; Etmanski, CatherineItem Participatory research: Canadian adult educators build a global movement(0000) Hall, Budd L; Jackson, Edward TItem Social movements and the practice of citizenship: Learning in the canadian and global context(0000) Aggarwal, Pramila; Hall, Budd LItem Towards a new architecture of knowledge: The creation of an office of community-based research at the University of Victoria(2007) Hall, Budd L; Lydon, Maeve; Trapero, JoaquinItem Knowledge democracy and epistemic in/justice: Reflections on a conversation(2020) Hall, Budd L; Godrie, Baptiste; Heck, IsabelThe focus of the article is on how knowledge is created, who creates knowledge, how is knowledge co-constructed, whose knowledge is excluded and how is knowledge being used to challenge inequalities and strengthen social movement capacity? This article grew from a fascinating conversation that the three of us had in Montreal in September of 2019. We decided to share our stories about knowledge and justice with a wider audience in part as a way for us to reflect further on the meaning of our initial conversation, but also to invite others into the discussion. The three of us are Baptise Godrie works in a research centre (CREMIS) affiliated with Quebec’s health care and social services system, Isabel Heck with the anti-poverty organization Parole d’excluEs, both affiliated to universities, and Budd Hall from the university of Victoria and the Co-Chair of the UNESCO Chair in Community-Based research and social responsibility in higher education.Item Towards a knowledge democracy movement(2016) Hall, Budd LBased on a comparative international research project examining community-university research partnerships, this paper argues for the emergence of a "knowledge democracy movement." The movement is framed as a crucial response to global social inequities, such as homelessness, illiteracy, and climate change disproportionately impacting marginalized populations. It bridges the traditional gap between Adult Education theory and practice with contemporary literature in Community-Based Research (CBR). It links the learning processes inherent in social movements and civic engagement to the production of knowledge that serves citizenship and social change. The central thesis is that a commitment to knowledge democracy—where knowledge is co-created, shared, and mobilized for public good—is essential for universities to transcend their role as mere knowledge repositories and become effective agents of social transformation. This movement represents a practical pathway for linking life experience, academic inquiry, and hope for a more equitable future.Item Everything old is new again: The importance of engagement to University-based Adult Education in Canada(2010) Hall, Budd LThis paper examines the enduring, yet often underappreciated, role of civic and community engagement within Canadian university-based Adult Education. Tracing the field’s historical roots from the 19th-century British Extramural tradition to the establishment of early Canadian Extension units—such as the one pioneered by Dr. Henry Marshall Tory at the University of Alberta in 1913—this work demonstrates how public engagement was once central to the "knowledge architecture" of the modern state university. The analysis highlights an international convergence of interest on the civic purposes of higher education, while simultaneously pointing to a critical lack of scholarly attention to the practice of engagement in various cultural contexts. Ultimately, the paper reasserts that a strong commitment to public engagement is not merely a service function but a fundamental, revitalized requirement for university-based adult education to remain relevant and fulfill its original mandate of social transformation and "the uplifting of the whole people."Item Higher education, community engagement, and the public good: Building the future of continuing education in Canada(Canadian Journal of University Continuing Education, 2009) Hall, Budd LThis article is about the potential for university-community engagement to serve the public good by transforming the health and well-being of our communities. It documents contemporary expressions of and renewed calls for community university engagement. It includes a detailed treatment of community based research, discussed in the overall context of community-university engagement. The article also explores some other important and growing dimensions of community university engagement, including the development of structures for the support of community-based research and community-service learning. It concludes with an argument that university-community engagement, while not the only current trend in higher education that affects our work in continuing education, is nonetheless a very important new development in which continuing education has much to offer and much to gain.Item Research, commitment and action: The role of participatory research(International Review of Education, 1985-09) Hall, Budd LThe author discusses the development and practice of participatory research as both a method and strategy of social investigation and social action within an adult education framework. Participatory research is compared with traditional research strategies, and its defining principles are outlined, together with specific examples of its application and practical issues both today and in the future.