| Voices of Change: Participatory Research in the United States and Canada Contributor(s): Brydon-Miller, Mary (Author), Hall, Budd (Author), Jackson, Ted (Author) |
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ISBN: 0897893344 ISBN-13: 9780897893343 Publisher: Praeger OUR PRICE: $94.05 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 1993 Annotation: This volume describes a grass-roots approach to empowering people for democratic social change. It explains participatory research using exemplary case studies on community organizing, feminist theory, and ecological movements from a wide range of locations in North America. The first collection of essays on participatory research in Canada and the United States, the book is an eloquent demonstration that the same approach to social change is needed in industrialized countries as it is in underdeveloped countries. Challenging the relevance and validity of academic social science research, participatory research is an important tool for social activists, community workers, and adult educators working with oppressed peoples. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Sociology - General - Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General - Political Science | American Government - National |
| Dewey: 303.484 |
| LCCN: 92042898 |
| Lexile Measure: 1430 |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.44" W x 9.59" (0.97 lbs) 224 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume describes a grass-roots approach to empowering people for democratic social change. It explains participatory research using exemplary case studies on community organizing, feminist theory, and ecological movements from a wide range of locations in North America. The first collection of essays on participatory research in Canada and the United States, the book is an eloquent demonstration that the same approach to social change is needed in industrialized countries as it is in underdeveloped countries. Challenging the relevance and validity of academic social science research, participatory research is an important tool for social activists, community workers, and adult educators working with oppressed peoples. |