PRIA Logue - Participatory research in Action: Where is the future Part 1 and 2
Date
2020-10-15
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Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA)
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The UNESCO Chair in Community Based Research and Social Responsibility in Higher Education conducted a conversation on “How to build next generation of practitioners in community-based participatory research in global south?” on 10 April 2015 at PRIA’s head office in New Delhi. It has been 40 years since the concept of participatory research was first articulated. Prof. Budd Hall and Dr Rajesh Tandon, UNESCO Co-Chairs, have worked together on practising, refining and promoting the methodology of participatory research during this period. As the methodology gained greater acceptance in academic bodies, they realised that opportunities for training the next generation of practitioners, scholars and champions of participatory research in the Global South have not been keeping pace. The event on 10 April 2015 was an opportunity to have a deeper conversation about strategies and partnerships required to scale-up such capacities around the world. The UNESCO Co-Chairs initiated the discussion around the issue of “Participatory Research In Action: Where Is the Future?”.1 Through the inspirations, high points and low points of their own work with participatory research, they pointed to what helps promote participatory research in academe and why spaces and resources for participatory research action have reduced. Drs Hall and Tandon recounted how their interest in participatory research began and how this powerful tool can be used as an aid in the research, service and teaching goals of higher educational institutions. The shifting trends in education are going to further shape the future of participatory research as a research and learning tool.
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Participatory Research, SDG 4: Quality Education, SDG 10: Reduced Inequalities, SDG 17: Partnerships for the Goals, India