Participatory Action Research and Educational Development: South Asian Perspectives (South Asian Education Policy, Research, and Practice) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 3319489046 ISBN 13: 9783319489049

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This volume brings together diverse thinkers and practitioners on Participatory Action Research (PAR) and educational development in South Asia. Contributors draw from their research and field experiences on how PAR is currently being understood, theorized, debated, and implemented for education of children in South Asia. This book will act as a key reference text for academics, students, and practitioners interested in the intersection of education and participatory development in the region. The book opens a constructive debate on PAR approaches to education and proposes a reflective framework that allows the reader to develop their perspectives about the conceptual, methodological, and sociopolitical potential and limitations of participatory approaches.

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About the Author

Huma Kidwai is an education consultant with the World Bank’s Sub-Saharan Africa Division (Education–Global Practices). She holds an EdD from Teachers College, Columbia University, USA.

Radhika Iyengar is Director of Education for the Millennium Villages Project (MVP), Center for Globalization and Sustainable Development at the Earth Institute, Columbia University, USA.

Matthew A. Witenstein is Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Education at University of Redlands, USA, where he helps coordinate the doctoral program.

Erik Jon Byker is Assistant Professor in the Department of Reading and Elementary Education at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.

Rohit Setty is a recent United States–India Educational Foundation Fulbright–Nehru Fellow with the National Council of Educational Research and Training’s Regional Institute of Education, Mysore, India, and a graduate of the University of Michigan, USA.

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This volume brings together diverse thinkers and practitioners on Participatory Action Research (PAR) and educational development in South Asia. Contributors draw from their research and field experiences on how PAR is currently being understood, theorized, debated, and implemented for the education of children in South Asia. This book will act as a key reference text for academics, students, and practitioners interested in the intersection of education and participatory development in the region. The book opens a constructive debate on PAR approaches to education and proposes a reflective framework that allows the reader to develop their perspectives about the conceptual, methodological, and sociopolitical potential and limitations of participatory approaches.

Edition details

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3319489046
• ISBN 13: 9783319489049
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 290
• Editor: Kidwai Huma, Iyengar Radhika, Witenstein Matthew A., Byker Erik Jon, Setty Rohit