Knowledge Shared
Title | Knowledge Shared PDF eBook |
Author | Edward T. Jackson |
Publisher | IDRC |
Total Pages | 265 |
Release | 1998 |
Genre | Community development |
ISBN | 0889368686 |
This book presents leading-edge analysis on the theory and practice of participatory evaluation around the world. With its instructive case studies from Bangladesh, El Salvador, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Mexico, Nepal, and St Vincent, the book is a guide to a community-based approach to evaluation that is at once a learning process, a means of taking action, and a catalyst for empowerment.Knowledge Shared is the most comprehensive book now available on participatory evaluation. It is intended primarily as a tool for practitioners and policymakers in all segments of development cooperatio.
Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture
Title | Confronting the Challenges of Participatory Culture PDF eBook |
Author | Henry Jenkins |
Publisher | MIT Press |
Total Pages | 146 |
Release | 2009-06-05 |
Genre | Technology & Engineering |
ISBN | 0262513625 |
Many teens today who use the Internet are actively involved in participatory cultures—joining online communities (Facebook, message boards, game clans), producing creative work in new forms (digital sampling, modding, fan videomaking, fan fiction), working in teams to complete tasks and develop new knowledge (as in Wikipedia), and shaping the flow of media (as in blogging or podcasting). A growing body of scholarship suggests potential benefits of these activities, including opportunities for peer-to-peer learning, development of skills useful in the modern workplace, and a more empowered conception of citizenship. Some argue that young people pick up these key skills and competencies on their own by interacting with popular culture; but the problems of unequal access, lack of media transparency, and the breakdown of traditional forms of socialization and professional training suggest a role for policy and pedagogical intervention. This report aims to shift the conversation about the "digital divide" from questions about access to technology to questions about access to opportunities for involvement in participatory culture and how to provide all young people with the chance to develop the cultural competencies and social skills needed. Fostering these skills, the authors argue, requires a systemic approach to media education; schools, afterschool programs, and parents all have distinctive roles to play. The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Reports on Digital Media and Learning
Action and Knowledge
Title | Action and Knowledge PDF eBook |
Author | Orlando Fals-Borda |
Publisher | Intermediate Technology Publications |
Total Pages | 196 |
Release | 1991 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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Technical problems require technical solutions that are innovative, simple, cheap, robust and easy to maintain. This book lists 100 winning inventions in the first International Inventors Award competition, organized in Stockholm.
Participatory Learning and Action
Title | Participatory Learning and Action PDF eBook |
Author | Neela Mukherjee |
Publisher | Concept Publishing Company |
Total Pages | 344 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Community development |
ISBN | 9788170229438 |
Participatory Learning in the Early Years
Title | Participatory Learning in the Early Years PDF eBook |
Author | Donna Berthelsen |
Publisher | Routledge |
Total Pages | 407 |
Release | 2009-01-13 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 1135857091 |
The early years are an important period for learning, but the questions surrounding participatory learning amongst toddlers remain under-examined. This book presents the latest theoretical and research perspectives about how ECEC (Early Childhood Education and Care) contexts promote democracy and citizenship through participatory learning approaches. The contributors provide insight into national policies, provisions, and practices and advance our understandings of theory and research on toddlers’ experiences for democratic participation across a number of countries, including the UK, Australia, New Zealand, the United States, Canada, Sweden, and Norway.
Participatory Learning and Action 50: Critical reflections, future directions
Title | Participatory Learning and Action 50: Critical reflections, future directions PDF eBook |
Author | Nicole Kenton |
Publisher | IIED |
Total Pages | 232 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781843695264 |
Opening Up Knowledge Production Through Participatory Research?
Title | Opening Up Knowledge Production Through Participatory Research? PDF eBook |
Author | Jakob Rupert Friederichsen |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Total Pages | 288 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Agricultural development projects |
ISBN | 9783631588420 |
Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--University of Hohenheim, 2008.