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Mapping Dialogue
By Pioneers of Change Associates
A research project profiling dialogue tools
and processes for social change
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The CDRA Biennial Practice
Conference March 2005 - An account
by Sue Soal of the CDRA
In March 2005,
CDRA convened its first Practice Conference in MacGregor in the Western
Cape, South Africa, with 87 participants. The Practice Conference,
intended as a biennial event, is simultaneously a celebration of, and
critical reflection on, practice – “The thing out of which we do what
we do in the world.” This is an account of the experience.
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Participatory Research And Community Organizing
By Sung Sil Lee Sohng,
Ph.D. University of Washington, School of Social Work, 1995
"...Originally
designed to resist the intellectual colonialism of western social
research into the third world development process, participatory
research developed a methodology for involving disenfranchised
people as researchers in pursuit of answers to the questions of
their daily struggle and survival..."
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Action Learning - a developmental
approach to change
The
ins and outs of this central approach of a developmental practice.
Taken from the
Associates Toolbox,
adapted from
Action Learning for
Development: use your experience to improve your effectiveness
by
James Taylor, Dirk Marais, Allan
Kaplan, Juta and Co. Ltd., 1997 (out of print but available as a
photocopy from CDRA - go to the
Bookshop)
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Four Case Study Methods for Practitioner Learning -
Four different
approaches to using case studies for practitioner learning.
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Surfacing and deepening your question -
working with questions
lies at the heart of development - this quintessential exercise can be
used in many processes and settings.
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A toolkit for the
preparation, implementation and evaluation of community-to-community
knowledge and learning exchanges -
by
Noel Oettle and
Bettina Koelle
go to:
http://www.emg.org.za/documents/IkXchangeToolkits/index.html
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