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Levelling the Playing Fields in PAR: The Intricacies of Power, Privilege, and Participation in a University-Community-School Partnership
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Wood, Lesley; McAteer, Mary – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2017
When academics, who occupy a traditional position of power and privilege, engage with community members whose thinking, attitudes, and responses have been shaped by ongoing sociohistorical oppression and disadvantage, democratic participation is not easy to attain. Yet, unless community members feel able to participate freely, the valuable local…
Descriptors: Partnerships in Education, Participatory Research, Action Research, Parent Education
Collective Action by Women in Community-Based Program Planning.
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Scott, Sue M.; Schmitt-Boshnick, Margo – New Directions for Adult and Continuing Education, 1996
The Candora women's collective uses a participatory model in developing community-based programming for women. Such grassroots organizations are faced with ethical dilemmas in negotiating the interests of funding agencies, organizations, and the women served. (SK)
Descriptors: Adult Education, Community Programs, Educational Planning, Ethics
Adult ESL: Politics, Pedagogy, and Participation in Classroom and Community Programs.
Smoke, Trudy, Ed. – 1998
The collection of essays on the politics of adult English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction includes: "The Politics of Adult ESL literacy: Becoming Politically Visible" (Pamela Ferguson); "Learning To Be Legal: Unintended Meanings for Adult Schools" (Pia Moriarty); "The Relationship Between Knowing Our Students' Real…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Anorexia Nervosa, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques