Women Reaching Women: A Story of Change. The Role of Narrative in Building Trust and Commitment during an Action Research Project

Autor/in	Langley, Dawn
Titel	Women Reaching Women: A Story of Change. The Role of Narrative in Building Trust and Commitment during an Action Research Project
Quelle	In: Educational Action Research, 20 (2012) 1, S.41-53 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0965-0792
DOI	10.1080/09650792.2012.647648
Schlagwörter	Trust (Psychology); Research Projects; Action Research; Females; Workshops; Climate; Personal Narratives; Sex Fairness; Poverty; Consciousness Raising; Economic Development; Informal Education; Adult Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Forschungsvorhaben; Projektforschung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Klima; Erlebniserzählung; Sexualaufklärung; Armut; Bewusstseinsbildung; Wirtschaftsentwicklung; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung
Abstract	Women Reaching Women was a three-year action research project aimed at raising awareness of world poverty, gender inequality and climate change. The project brought together the National Federation of Women's Institutes, Oxfam, the Everyone Foundation and a unique group of 28 women drawn from Women's Institutes across the country. The project explored what motivates us as individuals to act and how to overcome a limited sense of personal agency in comparison with the scale of gender and international development issues. Narrative was central to creating a strong sense of commitment to the project and building the necessary trust between the participants, enabling them to deal with the challenging content. In utilising personal and evocative narratives both within a series of workshops and through the action research cycle reports (produced annually), this paper argues that the women involved were more able to engage with the "wicked problems" inherent in gender and international development. This paper also responds to an acknowledged gap in the literature in terms of gender, international development and climate change. The literature on wicked problems appears to focus on links with action research, policy development and networks, but there is little from the perspective of gender and action research in informal adult education. (Contains 4 notes.) (As Provided).
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