exCHANGE: Exchanging Development Education Skills to Build Grassroots Participation
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1993-01
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Description
This is a "TEACHER TRAINING" project which is innovative both in its definition of teachers and in its approach to training.
As well as development educationalists and formal sector teachers, our target group comprises community educationalists and group facilitators - those who take responsibility for leading a group involved in a educational process even though some of them may not usually define themselves as "teachers". This is particularly true of "self help" groups which are facilitated by their own members. In this way we are including target groups who are not traditionally "clients" of development education centres/organisations.
The "training" aspect of the project aims to develop skills for promoting participation in development. The closest equivalent to development education in the South is sometimes termed "community development". "participatory education" or in Latin America - "popular education". It is distinctive in its emphasis on social action as an essential part of the education process and works with a wider diversity of social classes than's usual in British development education. The purpose of this project is:
- to act as a forum for the exchange of methods between North and South
- to explore how methods can be adapted
- to explore how new techniques can be developed from the partnership between North and South.
The result will be a manual containing case studies from the work of the groups involved and evaluations of this work.
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Participatory Education, Grassroots Participation, Community Development, Teacher Training, Popular Education
Citation
Oxford Development Education Centre (ODEC). (1993). exCHANGE: Exchanging Development Education Skills to Build Grassroots Participation.