- Title
- In pursuit of participation tracking the influence of local action for sustainable development
- Creator
- Kulundu, Injairu
- Subject
- To be catalogued
- Date
- 2012
- Type
- text
- Type
- book chapter
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/437123
- Identifier
- vital:73332
- Identifier
- ISBN 978-1-919991-81-8
- Identifier
- https://transformativelearning.education/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/reviews-on-social-learning-literature.pdf
- Description
- This literature review charts the cumulative lessons that have emerged from the participatory development discourse in its various guises over the past fifty years, relating them to current emerging perspectives on social learning. Acknowledging the tensions that occur when the theoreti-cally sound proponents of the participatory discourse are translated into practice, this review seeks to outline the practical and ethical implications of this terrain. It will do so with reference to three points in its evolution: the great influence of Participatory Development (popularly known through focuses such as Participatory Rural Appraisal), the effect of Hu-man Development and the Capabilities Approach, and lastly, the growing discourse on Social Learning and what its ideas contribute to the dis-course. As such the paper helps to ‘locate’ social learning discourse within the wider arena of participatory development, showing the antecedent links that exist between social learning discourse (as it is emerging today), and wider participatory development discourses. The paper argues that more attention needs to be given to the ‘hidden work’ involved in turning all of these theories of participatory development, learning and agency into practice, and that the discourses can only really live in practice, a process for which we can only partially be prepared for by our literature (re)views.
- Format
- 20 pages, pdf
- Publisher
- Rhodes University
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Kulundu, I., 2012. In pursuit of participation: tracking the influence of local action for sustainable development. (Re) Views on Social Learning. A Mmonograph for Social Learning Researchers in Natural Resources Management and Environmental Education
- Rights
- Publishers
- Rights
- Use of this resource is governed by the terms and conditions of the authors
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