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Educational Assessment, Evaluation, and Research

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University of Massachusetts Amherst

1999

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Siguiendo El Arco Iris: Hablan Los Facilitadores 25 Anos Despues, Ximena Aldaz, Ayme Quijia, Ana Lucia Tasiguano, Susana Zhagnay Jan 1999

Siguiendo El Arco Iris: Hablan Los Facilitadores 25 Anos Despues, Ximena Aldaz, Ayme Quijia, Ana Lucia Tasiguano, Susana Zhagnay

Ecuador Project

No abstract provided.


Arco Iris De La Alfabetizacion: Educacion No Formal En Ecuador 25 Anos Despues, Ernique Tasiguano Muzo Jan 1999

Arco Iris De La Alfabetizacion: Educacion No Formal En Ecuador 25 Anos Despues, Ernique Tasiguano Muzo

Ecuador Project

No abstract provided.


Literacy's Rainbow: The Ecuador Nfe Project Twenty-Five Years Later, Ernique Tasiguano Muzo Jan 1999

Literacy's Rainbow: The Ecuador Nfe Project Twenty-Five Years Later, Ernique Tasiguano Muzo

Ecuador Project

No abstract provided.


Kinsey Dialogue Series #1: The Origins And Challenges Of Participatory Action Research, Orlando Fals Borda Jan 1999

Kinsey Dialogue Series #1: The Origins And Challenges Of Participatory Action Research, Orlando Fals Borda

Participatory Research & Practice

Participatory research as we now know it, with its emphasis on practice in conditions of exploitation and poverty, originated in Third World countries such as India, Brazil, Mexico, Tanzania and Colombia. Participatory research emerged around 1970, when socials scientists who shared a particular concern about life conditions among the rural poor, became dissatisfied with our training. Our conceptions of Cartesian rationality, progress, and "normal" science had been challenged, and we sought alternative emancipatory modes of research and action. This included looking for conceptual elements to guide our fieldwork that would take us beyond our tentative first steps with social psychology, …