Socially Responsible Higher Education
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Item A reflective book review-Challenging the professionalization of adult Education: John ohliger and contradictions in modern practice(2010) Hall, Budd LDr. Budd Hall's reflective review of Challenging the Professionalization of Adult Education (Grace & Rocco) examines the intellectual and political legacy of John Ohliger, who spent decades working outside the academy to defend adult education's democratic roots. Drawing on personal encounters and shared political work, Hall traces how Ohliger pushed back against the professionalization and marketization of adult learning, highlighting commitment to voluntary, community-based, and socially engaged education. The review connects Ohliger's thought to participatory research and popular education, arguing that his critique of compulsory, market-driven approaches remain relevant to contemporary adult education and social change. Hall ultimately presents Ohliger as a public intellectual whose work continues to inspire efforts to preserve the democratic and transformative potential of the field.Item Adult education, culture development and social movements: The contemporary challenge( Society for Participatory Research In Asia (PRIA), 1993-04-27) Tandon, RajeshItem Big Tent Communique VI. Local identities and global citizenship: A message from Catania and challenges for universities(2015-11-04) Hall, Budd LIn a world facing growing inequality, conflict, and environmental strain, the Sixth Big Tent Communiqué reflects on what role universities can play in responding to these challenges. It sees higher education as more than classrooms and research, calling for closer ties with communities and a stronger sense of responsibility to society. The communiqué raises questions about how universities can support young people, create knowledge that connects rather than divides, and rebuild trust in uncertain times. Instead of final answers, it leaves open the possibility that the future of universities will depend on how far they are willing to rethink their purpose.Item 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, SumitraPRIA 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.Item Building a global learning network: The international council for adult education(International Council for Adult Education, 0000) Hall, Budd LWhat can we learn from the histories, tasks, and challenges of building global cooperation in adult education? In this chapter, Dr. Budd L Hall reflects on the emergence and significance of the International Council for Adult Education as a key step in strengthening international collaboration in adult learning. He traces its historical roots in post war movements for literacy, liberation, and development, and situates its formation within broader struggles for democratic participation and social justice. The chapter outlines ICAE’s early tasks, including building regional networks, amplifying voices from the Global South, and shaping global policy debates in partnership with bodies such as UNESCO. Hall also discusses internal tensions, funding constraints, and the political challenges of sustaining an independent global civil society network. By examining questions of direction, alliances, and accountability, he invites readers to reflect on how global networks can remain responsive to changing contexts while staying grounded in their transformative commitments.Item Case study on the role of adult education in community involvement for primary healthcare(1983-05) Tandon, RajeshItem Citizen engagement in urban governance: Lessons from small and medium towns in India(Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2009) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)With the rapid expansion of Indian cities came new pressures on governance, raising difficult questions about how urban institutions could remain accountable and responsive to citizens. This report focuses on the role of citizen engagement in strengthening urban governance in India. This study, drawing on case studies and field experiences, examines how rapid urban growth has reshaped city management and points to the possibilities opened up when citizens are given space to engage with governance. The analysis shows that while policies and structures for participation exist on paper, many citizens, especially those from marginalized groups, remain excluded from these processes due to a lack of awareness, resources, or institutional support. The paper points to the need for deeper trust and stronger channels of dialogue between citizens and city governments to make engagement meaningful. By placing citizens at the heart of governance, the study underlines how democratic processes in cities can become more inclusive, responsive, and effective in addressing the needs of diverse urban populations, positioning participation as the foundation of just and sustainable urban futures.Item Citizen report card: Citizen feedback for effective service delivery: An operational manual(Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2013) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)Asia is urbanising at a pace faster than ever. The ever increasing population in the Asian cities and the consequent increase in demands for supply of basic services like housing, water, sanitation, health, education etc. pose enormous challenges to the urban local governance institutions. The existing capacities and resources of most urban local governance institutions are over stretched. The situation is exacerbated due to lack of governance reforms leading to enormous deficits in the transparency, accountability and citizen participation – the hallmarks of any democratic governance institutions. The engagement of civil society organisations (CSOs) is pivotal in making the urban local governance institutions transparent, accountable, responsive and participatory. However, the capacities of CSOs to engage and hold the urban local governance institutions are also limited. The project “Deepening Local Democratic Governance through Social Accountability in Asia” aimed to improve democratic practices in urban local governance institutions through social accountability for improving the provision of basic services to the most marginalised families in two Asian cities – Rajshahi in Bangladesh and Takhmao in Cambodia. The project was supported by the UN Democracy Fund (UNDEF) and was implemented by the Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) in partnership with PRIP Trust, Bangladesh and SILAKA, Cambodia. It addressed the deficits of democratic practices, particularly the lack of citizen participation, transparency and accountability mechanisms in municipalities, due to which these institutions often fail to deliver services effectively and equitably and lack responsiveness towards the most marginalised. It made efforts to enhance organised citizen action and participation through mobilisation, capacity building, campaigns and participatory monitoring (using citizen report card and citizen monitoring methods) to ensure accountability. Its endeavours included enhancing citizens’ access to information and basic services by developing partnership with the elected municipalities to establish ‘models’ of social accountability mechanisms, particularly using citizen charters, pro-active information disclosures and public grievance redressal mechanisms. Having harvested the lessons from these interventions at the municipality level coupled with specific policy analysis at the sub-national and national levels, policy dialogues and policy oriented capacity building learning events were organised towards policy changes. It contributed to enhance capacities of local intermediary CSOs through training, exposure visits, on-site coaching and mentoring for implementing various social accountability approaches and tools and also influencing national and sub-national policies on urban governance issues. One of the critical outcomes of the intervention was to systematise the experience of implementing specific social accountability approaches, tools and methods so that the practitioners from CSOs as well as municipal officials could scale up, mainstream and institutionalise these practices elsewhere. Three operational manuals produced through this initiative are significant step towards these purposes. We sincerely hope that the practitioners from CSOs and officials from the municipalities will find these manuals handy and useful.Item Civil engagement in higher education and its role in Human & Social Development(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2007-07) Tandon, RajeshItem Commentary on the progress report on the futures of education(UNESCO Chair, 2020-04-24) Tandon, Rajesh; Hall, Budd LItem Community based participatory research & sustainable development goals(the Canadian Commission for UNESCO’s IdeaLab, 2017) Hall, Budd L; Tandon, RajeshIn this report, Dr. Budd Hall and Dr. Rajesh Tandon explore the role of Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The authors contend that addressing the social, economic, and environmental challenges within the SDG framework demands knowledge production approaches that go beyond what conventional academic research offers. Higher education institutions, with their considerable intellectual, physical, and digital resources, are seen as well-placed to generate locally relevant and actionable knowledge through socially responsible research. CBPR is discussed as a collaborative and participatory approach that brings together universities, communities, civil society, and policy actors in equitable partnerships, with an emphasis on co-learning, capacity building, and social change. The report also considers how higher education institutions can integrate CBPR into their research work through locally grounded and community-driven methods. It closes with recommendations for universities, policymakers, funding agencies, and civil society organizations on building stronger institutional support for CBPR in the pursuit of the SDGs.Item Community engagement in higher education institutions: Status report 2015(UNESCO Chair, 2015-04) Tandon, Rajesh; Singh, WafaItem Curriculum, higher education, and the public good(2009) Hall, Budd L; Bhatt, Nandita; Lepore, WalterCurriculum change in higher education is an extremely complex process. Influences on the content of what is taught in higher education include new knowledge coming from the various academic disciplines, from the regulatory bodies of many of the professions, from national calls for action, from global challenges, from social movements of the day. This chapter argues that in the search for excellence, engagement and social responsibility that there is no contradiction between responding to local calls for action and global matters. Illustrations of curriculum change which attend to both the local and the global include classroom changes, single university changes, system-wide changes in Canada, Asia, Latin America and New Zealand. We call for more attention to community engaged learning and the creation of central offices for community university engagement.Item Disciplines, professions and the sustainable development goals (SDGs): Challenges in higher education in india(Global University Network for Innovation (GUNi), 2019) Tandon, Rajesh; Pandey, PoojaItem Diversity & social inclusion in higher education: Reflections from FICCI HES 2017(UNESCO Chair, 2018-01-01) UNESCO ChairItem Enabling Public Grievance Redressal Systems in Municipalities: An Operational Manual(Society for Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2013)This report is about enabling urban municipalities with Public Grievance Redressal (PGR) systems, developed by PRIA India along with PRIP Trust in Bangladesh and SILAKA in Cambodia and supported by the United Nations Democracy Fund. The manual is based on a project carried out across cities in India, Bangladesh, and Cambodia between 2011 and 2013. Municipal accountability depends on citizens having a reliable way to raise complaints, and the manual lays out what PGR systems are and why they matter for governance that answers to the people it serves. Civil society organizations and municipal officials are shown working together at each stage, from assessing what already exists to mobilising citizens, building the capacity of staff and elected representatives, and eventually institutionalising complaint mechanisms within municipal structures. Challenges that surfaced during implementation find space here too: limited awareness among citizens, resource constraints within municipalities, and resistance from within bureaucracies that complaint systems often disturb. It provides examples and case studies from India, Bangladesh, Cambodia, and Malaysia to guide practitioners working to strengthen municipal governance.Item Fostering social responsibility by higher educational institutions: COVID-19 & Beyond-WEBINAR(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2020-04-08) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA); Association of Indian Universities
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