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Today, with community participation holding centre stage of development activities, many professionals are changing their earlier "top down" stance and adopting participatory learning methodologies at the field level for interacting with local communities and learning from them. Such participatory learning by professional are taking place under diverse conditions in multitude of ways which are relatively unstructured, flexible and innovative. The present book shares such participatory learning experiences and reflections of a group of Professional who are engaged in embracing the paradigm shift taking place in the sphere of development.
The book is a collection of thirteen papers and note the field in the area of community participation. While some of the papers in this book relate to Participatory Rural appraisal (PRA), other papers are a blend of Rapid rural Appraisal (RRA) and PRA, some others are based on participatory research methodology and a few have combined direct observation with Participatory methods. The papers present varied issues communication with children, participatory teaching-learning process, learning from women, political participation, participatory extension and sustainability, community interactive processes, ethics in participation, participatory conflict resolution and organizational capacity building in grassroots participation. The book is meant for development professionals, governmental and non-governmental organizations, donor agencies, action researchers and other involved in the area of community participation.ISBN:8170226643
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Pages : 181
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