HECOL301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Paulo Freire, Participatory Action Research

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Human Ecology
• Course: HECOL301
• Professor: Philip O' Hara

Document Summary

Short essay (2-3) 10 marks each, text or bullets. Rational, logical & dynamic process for designing programs and initiatives. What must be done to achieve goals and how these goals and impacts would be generated. Key elements of the program planning process: identify needs & capacities, program design and development, program implementation, evaluation. Values are rolled out through your practice into your program plan. Trickle down model of knowledge generation and transmission. Researchers may not know all the issues at the bottom of the model. Model used in public health, it is very e ective. Research developed by researchers only reliable source of knowledge about families. Researchers and practitioners are coequals in knowledge generation. Individuals are still the consumers of professional services. Families are a primary source of support, growth, learning for themselves in their community. All stakeholders are equal, and all form of knowledge is equal. People primarily citizens, secondarily consumers of professional services.