Creating Knowledge: Breaking the Monopoly; Research Methods, Participation, and Development. Working Paper No. 1.

Autor/in	Hall, Budd L.
Institution	International Council for Adult Education, Toronto (Ontario).
Titel	Creating Knowledge: Breaking the Monopoly; Research Methods, Participation, and Development. Working Paper No. 1.
Quelle	(1977), (22 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Adult Development; Adult Education; Case Studies; Decision Making; Developing Nations; Educational Research; Guidelines; Participation; Research Design; Research Methodology; Research Tools; Social Science Research; Surveys; Tanzania + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Erwachsenwerden; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Developing country; Developing countries; Entwicklungsland; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Richtlinien; Teilnahme; Forschungsdesign; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Forschungsmittel; Social scientific research; Sozialwissenschaftliche Forschung; Survey; Umfrage; Befragung; Tansania
Abstract	Combining community participation in decision making with methods of social investigation, participatory research focuses on involvement of the subjects of the research in the research process. Adult educators are exploring this research method which, unlike quantitative research, serves the needs of individuals and not those of policy makers who need convenient, portable information and researchers who survive economically by collecting, packaging, and selling knowledge. Renewed attention has been brought to the weaknesses of the survey appoach, the most commonly used research method. It oversimplifies social reality and is therefore inaccurate; is often alienating, dominating, or oppressive in character; does not provide easy links to possible subsequent action; and uses methods which are not consistent with the principles of adult education. Work continues on finding alternative strategies, one of which is participatory research. This concept rests on the premises that a research process can immediately and directly benefit and is part of a total educational experience for the population involved in the entire dialectic process, that its object is the liberation of human creative potential and the mobilization of human resources for the solution of social problems, and that it has ideological implications. As an example, a Tanzanian village used this process to improve low-cost grain storage. (YLB)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC