03490nam a22004812u 4500 832 BD-DhAAL 20150921151702.0 he u||024|||| 150921s1977 xxu ||| bt ||| | eng d ericd eng ericd MvI BD-DhAAL 301/.01 Hall, Budd L. 2710 Creating Knowledge/ a monopoly Breaking the Monopoly; Research Methods, Participation, and Development. Working Paper No. 1 / Budd L. Hall. [Washington, D.C.] : New Delhi : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, Society of Participatory Research in Asia, 1982. 209 p. ; 22 cm. Sponsoring Agency: Hazen Foundation, New Haven, CT. ericd ERIC Note: For related documents see CE 023 039-041. ericd Educational level discussed: Adult Education. Combining community participation in decision making with methods of social investigation, participatory research focuses on involvement of the subjects of the research in the research process. Adult educators are exploring this research method which, unlike quantitative research, serves the needs of individuals and not those of policy makers who need convenient, portable information and researchers who survive economically by collecting, packaging, and selling knowledge. Renewed attention has been brought to the weaknesses of the survey appoach, the most commonly used research method. It oversimplifies social reality and is therefore inaccurate; is often alienating, dominating, or oppressive in character; does not provide easy links to possible subsequent action; and uses methods which are not consistent with the principles of adult education. Work continues on finding alternative strategies, one of which is participatory research. This concept rests on the premises that a research process can immediately and directly benefit and is part of a total educational experience for the population involved in the entire dialectic process, that its object is the liberation of human creative potential and the mobilization of human resources for the solution of social problems, and that it has ideological implications. As an example, a Tanzanian village used this process to improve low-cost grain storage. (YLB) Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive. 832 Economic development Sociological aspects Research 14950 Adult Education. ericd 13673 Case Studies. ericd 14951 Decision Making. ericd 14952 Developing Nations. ericd 13675 Educational Research. ericd 14953 Guidelines. ericd 14954 Participation. ericd 14955 Research Design. ericd 14956 Research Methodology. ericd 14957 Research Tools. ericd 14958 Social Science Research. ericd 14959 Surveys. ericd 14960 Participatory Research Tanzania Reports, Research. ericd 14961 Information Analyses. ericd 14962 International Council for Adult Education, Toronto (Ontario). 14963 ddc BK 35638 35638 0 0 ddc 0 301_000000000000000__01_HAL 0 56050 SCL SCL GEN 2015-09-21 1 1 301.01 HAL 3020000832 2022-04-05 2022-03-27 1 2015-09-21 BK