The Application of Participatory Action-Research in Latin America
- 1 December 1987
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in International Sociology
- Vol. 2 (4), 329-347
- https://doi.org/10.1177/026858098700200401
Abstract
A research methodology that combines theory, action and participation (PAR) committed to further the interests of exploited groups and classes has been initiated and tried in many Third World countries since the 1970s. PAR claims inspiration from phenomenological and Marxist trends adjusted to regional realities and factors; it challenges established academic routines without discarding the need to accumulate and systematise knowledge, and to construct a more comprehensive and human paradigm in the social sciences, and it proposes a series of techniques to combine knowledge and power without falling into the dangers of world annihilation This is illustrated with actual field studies and projects in Nicaragua, Colombia and Mexico.Keywords
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