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Kinsey Dialogue Series #2: Participatory Research And Action: Flower, Weed, Or Genetically Modified Monster?, Eileen Kane

Participatory Research & Practice

Over the last fifteen years I have been using participatory research in many areas, and especially to look at problems and opportunities for girls' education in developing countries. In this paper, I want to share some ideas about what I think needs to happen if participatory approaches are to grow and flourish in the future. The questions I am asking are, "what is participatory research? is it a sunflower, getting stronger as it pushes toward enlightenment? Is it kudzu, omnipresent and sometimes out of place? Is it a rootless creation, a carbuncle grafted on to the conventional trunk of research? …

International Perspectives On Nonformal Education, Division Of Community Education, Springfield College, Center For International Education School Of Education University Of Massachusetts, Amherst, David R. Evans, Peter Hackett, John C. Osgood, John W. Bing, David Kahler, Michael Kipkorir Koech, Frank A. Stone, Stephen S. Winter, Frances L. O'Neill, James F. Mctaggert, Donald F. Ross Jr., Bernard K. Hayford, Dorothy R. Pieniadz, Nellie B. Kanno, Sean J. O'Connor

Conference Proceedings & Collected Papers

The New England Regional Meeting of the Comparative and International Education Society was held on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, on 3 May, 1979. The conference was co-sponsored by the Division of Community Education, Springfield College, and the Center for International Education, School of Education, University of Massachusetts.

The theme of the conference was "International Perspectives on Nonformal Education." The papers delivered ranged in topics from the use of traditional art forms and poetry as a medium of nonformal education to the discussion of the philosophical foundations underlying the field. Case studies of specific nonformal education projects …