Socially Responsible Higher Education
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Item Fostering social responsibility in higher education in India(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2014) Tandon, RajeshItem Teaching participatory research: Making higher education participatory and relevant(2010) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)The paper argues that inclusion of Participatory Research (PR) in the curricula of institutions of higher education will facilitate its actual practice, thereby contributing to new forms of knowledge production and social change. Participatory Research (PR),as an alternative to dominant social science research methodology and an approach for social change, gained recognition in the 70s. More than three decades later, however, much more is needed for the inclusion of PR in the formal higher education system. This paper highlights the status of PR in institutions of higher education in India; it analyses the viability of its inclusion and presents the challenges it faces across social science disciplines, in degree level courses, as well as in doctoral research. Drawing upon national and international experiences ,the paper explores ways by which higher education institutions in India can include PR in the curriculum and teaching practices .Item “I AM NOT A PEACENIK”: Adult learning of development education in English-speaking Canada(Canadian and International Education, 1983) Hall, Budd LWhat can development education look like in a changing world order? In this article, Dr. Budd Hall reflects on the meaning of development education and the approaches of adult learning within it. Drawing on thinkers such as Freire, Tawney, Marx and others, he examines their fundamental principles and approaches to education, and considers how adult learning can be understood through their perspectives. He foregrounds the persistent and difficult questions that confront development educators across the world, particularly those related to power, positionality, access, influence and reflexivity. Through examples ranging from Gatt Fly in Canada to educators in Tanzania, he traces common threads across varied experiences. Reflecting on his own work, the experiences of other educators, and major intellectual traditions, Hall reflects upon how development education must respond to the challenges of a changing world order. He also emphasises the interdependence of countries and argues that development education must fundamentally recognise and engage with this reality. Situated in the 1980s, the article offers a critical reflection on the direction and responsibilities of development education.Item 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 PRIA's engagements with higher educational institutions (HEIs): Initiatives in community based research (CBR)(Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA), 2014) Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)PRIA 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 Unity in diversity: The future of adult education in asia and the south-pacific region(1991-12) Tandon, RajeshItem Case study on the role of adult education in community involvement for primary healthcare(1983-05) Tandon, Rajesh