Participation in co-design: In search of a recipe for improved cookstoves in urban Indian slums
In 2015 we set to explore methods of breaking down the conventional dichotomies of ‘givers’ and ‘receivers’, ‘developers’ and ‘underdeveloped’, ‘experts’ and ‘users who need to be taught‘. The context of exploration? Urban Indian slums. The central actors? Residents of slums, designers and engineers, and us, the researchers. Main topic? Reducing indoor air pollution, designing […]
Read More...Investigación acción participativa y procesos de reconciliación: el retorno de las brujas.
La Conferencia ARNA de 2018 está cerca y promete ser un gran evento, un lugar en tiempo y espacio para compartir preguntas, respuestas, sueños, experiencias… La Conferencia será en la Universidad de California, San Diego y el tema es: Movilización del conocimiento para un progreso social equitativo y pacÃfico. Junio 28-30, 2018. Está abierta la […]
Read More...Participatory Action Research and reconciliation processes: The return of the witches.
ARNA Conference 2018 is very near and promises to be a great event, a place in time and space to share questions, answers, dreams, experiences… The Conference to be held in University of California, San Diego and the Theme is: Knowledge Mobilization for Equitable & Peaceful Social Progress. June 28-30, 2018. Call for Abstracts Is […]
Read More...Action Researching at Boston College
Professor Paul Gray in conversation with Hilary Bradbury about a popular action research program for doctoral students. Paul Gray is a professor in the department of sociology at Boston College where he helped design a successful and popular program for action researching scholar practitioners. It started in the 1980’s. For many years Paul taught and […]
Read More...Using photovoice to develop critical awareness of tobacco environments for marginalized youth in California
Dr. Alfredo Ortiz Aragón writes: “This article clearly achieves its set purpose of going beyond reporting findings from a PhotoVoice project, to shedding more light on the process through which participants develop critical awareness—drawing significantly from the participants own accounts of their transformative experiences. Echoing comments from one of our reviewers, the examples presented clearly […]
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