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Learning from life: the value of everyday knowledge for empowerment and change

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The use of participatory research and participation to promote the empowerment
of the poor and marginalised began in the 1970s and gained momentum in the early
1980s. The approach builds on the learning for change paradigm in which everyday
experience is the basis for developing agency, and committing to and taking action
to create change, both individually and collectively. The paradigm has been used
over decades, and in several contexts (e.g. women’s literacy and political leadership,
work health and safety, access to and control over natural resources, prevention of
sexual harassment and violence against women, social accountability and participatory monitoring, access to basic services, and climate adaptation and resilience). In
this research note, some of these contexts – work health and safety, women’s political leadership, the urban poor and gender-based violence – are used as practical
exemplars of work conducted by the non-proft research and training organisation
Participatory Research in Asia (PRIA) to support poor, excluded and marginalised
communities. The experiences shared in this research note bear witness to the power
of popular knowledge and the inclusion of marginalised voices for transformatory,
people-centric development.

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English

Publisher/Authors

UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning and Springer Nature

Edition / Year

2024

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Keywords

gender issues, education for empowerment, non-formal and informal learning, adult education, lifelong learning (policy and practice), citizenship education

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