Learning in an Environmental Social Movement: Walking and Learning with the Poor

Autor/in	Colon-Rivera, Eliezer
Titel	Learning in an Environmental Social Movement: Walking and Learning with the Poor
Quelle	(2018), (179 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit Ed.D. Dissertation, Northern Illinois University
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
ISBN	978-0-4380-3225-5
Schlagwörter	Hochschulschrift; Dissertation; Economically Disadvantaged; Group Behavior; Social Change; Ethnography; Action Research; Participatory Research; Popular Education; Informal Education; Environmental Education; Puerto Rico + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Thesis; Dissertations; Academic thesis; Gruppenverhalten; Sozialer Wandel; Ethnografie; Projektforschung; Forschungstätigkeit; Befreiungspädagogik; Informelle Bildung; Nichtformale Bildung; Umweltbildung; Umwelterziehung; Umweltpädagogik
Abstract	This autoethnographic study explores how participants in the environmental social movement in Cidra, Puerto Rico learned and produced knowledge. The data was obtained through the narration of my personal experiences as an environmental activist and founding member of Comite Despertar Cidreno, eleven individual interviews with members and sympathizers of the group, and a collective interview in the form of a focus group. The autoethnographic narrative and interviews with the research participants illustrate a production of knowledge ranging from the skills and abilities necessary to organize the struggles to the knowledge about the respective natural environment. The study suggests that the use of participatory action research (PAR) as a tool for research and transformation, as part of Freire's popular education conceptual framework, encouraged participants to become aware that their experiences and practices produce knowledge. The study reiterates what the research on learning in social movements has demonstrated: that most of the learning is informal learning (Foley, 1999; Haluza-DeLay, 2007; Choudry and Kapoor, 2013). The individual interviews and focus group helped the participants become aware of the vast amount of learning that took place during the environmental social movement. This learning, generally incidental, was not recognized before as learning by the participants. [The dissertation citations contained here are published with the permission of ProQuest LLC. Further reproduction is prohibited without permission. Copies of dissertations may be obtained by Telephone (800) 1-800-521-0600. Web page: http://www.proquest.com/en-US/products/dissertations/individuals.shtml.] (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01