Community-based Learning and Social Movements

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marjorie Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Hate Crime ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Underlying Causes ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
Justice Movements

The rise of Far Right populism poses major challenges for communities, exacerbating divisions, hate speech and hate crime. This book shows how communities and social justice movements can effectively tackle these issues, working together to mitigate their underlying causes and more immediate manifestations. Showing that community-based learning is integral to the development of strategies to promote more hopeful rather than more hateful futures, Mayo demonstrates how, through popular education and participatory action research, communities can develop their own understandings of their problems. Using case studies that illustrate education approaches in practice, she shows how communities can engineer democratic forms of social change.

Popular education in a populist age

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Marjorie Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Social Movements ◽  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Popular Education ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Underlying Causes

This chapter starts by exploring the growth of Far-Right populism, accompanied by increasing racism, ‘Islamophobia, hate speech and hate crime. What is Far Right populism really about? What are its theoretical roots? And how does Far Right populism impact upon communities, in practice? The Far Right has been providing socially divisive explanations for contemporary problems, exacerbating people’s fears and resentments in challenging times. Popular education and participatory action research have valuable contributions to make, in response, working with communities and social movements to unpack the underlying causes of their problems. working towards more hopeful futures - as part of wider strategies for social justice at local, national and international levels. Subsequent chapters are introduced, in summary, in the final section of this chapter.

scholarly journals Health and Social Sciences working together in Community-Based Learning: Is this possible?

MedEdPublish ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Leide Da Conceição Sanches ◽  
Leandro Rozin ◽  
Izabel Cristina Meister Martins Coelho ◽  
Patricia Helena Napolitano ◽  
Christiane Luiza Santos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Working Together ◽  
Community Based Learning

Accountability from the Ground Up: Uncovering the Limitations and Possibilities of Organizing for Community Schools in Philadelphia

2020 ◽  
pp. 004208592095913
Author(s):  
Kristen P. Goessling ◽  
Shivaani A. Selvaraj ◽  
Caitlin Fritz ◽  
Pep Marie
Keyword(s):  
Public Education ◽  
Community Schools ◽  
Community School ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Action Research Project ◽  
Grassroots Organizing ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
Critical Participatory Action Research ◽  
Education Justice

This paper focuses on the evolution of community schools from a grassroots organizing effort to a formal initiative in Philadelphia. The authors implemented a critical participatory action research project to examine the process and impact of the education organizing. We present two narratives to illustrate the potential and limitations of two divergent community school approaches. We argue that education justice movements must develop processes and metrics of accountability to effectively organize for transformative community-driven education. Findings provide insights to communities organizing for public education in other contexts and locales and an example of how research can support social justice movements.

Comunidad Maya Pixan Ixim and University Researchers: Partnering in Community Health Development

2012 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 37-40
Author(s):  
Luis Marcos ◽  
M. Rosales ◽  
Alexander Rödlach ◽  
John Stone
Keyword(s):  
Action Research ◽  
Participatory Action Research ◽  
Participatory Research ◽  
Community Based Participatory Research ◽  
Healthcare Research ◽  
Local Health ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Marginalized Communities ◽  
Working Together

Applied anthropologists value participatory action research (PAR). In 2008, the Society for Applied Anthropology bestowed the 2008 Bronislaw Malinowski Award upon Orlando Fals-Borda, who is best known for developing the theory and methodology of this approach and his leadership in social and political activism on behalf of and with marginalized communities. Fals-Borda argues that PAR encourages value-driven and collaboratively-conducted research that transforms the relationship between marginalized communities and the organizations that serve them so as to improve their socio-political situation (Fals-Borda and Rahman 1991). Comparably, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality of the US Department of Health and Human Services has recognized the value of community-based participatory research for both researchers and the community being studied (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality 2004:1). The Agency has emphasized the importance of academic professionals and community members working together in community-based participatory research as equal partners in developing, implementing, and using research findings to improve local health and healthcare. Community-based participatory research and participatory action research share many features.

scholarly journals The Participant-Observer in Community-based Learning as Community Bard

2006 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
John M. Carroll ◽  
Mary Beth Rosson
Keyword(s):  
Community Informatics ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Community Based Learning ◽  
Participant Observer

We reflect on the role that we play, as participatory action researchers, in community informatics projects. We characterize this role using the analogy to "bards" from medeival societies.

From Rabble-Rousing to SPARCing Community Transformation

2018 ◽  
pp. 143-161
Author(s):  
Courtney Elizabeth Knapp
Keyword(s):  
Community Planning ◽  
Participatory Action ◽  
Non Profit ◽  
Community Transformation ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
Research Initiative ◽  
Protest Group ◽  
Planning Processes ◽  
Justice Movements ◽  
The City

This chapter describes the evolution of Chattanooga Organized for Action as they transitioned from a popular protest group into a 501-C3 non-profit who initiates, supports and connects place-based social justice movements across downtown Chattanooga. It also discusses two components of a participatory action research initiative related to this research project: the Sustaining People and Reclaiming Communities (SPARC) Initiative and the Planning Free School of Chattanooga. Both were experimental community planning processes, designed to offer alternatives to mainstream citizen engagement and capacity building in the city.

Covid-19 and mutual aid: Prefigurative approaches to caring?

2021 ◽  
Vol 122 (1) ◽  
pp. 80-91
Author(s):  
Marjorie Mayo
Keyword(s):  
Civil Society ◽  
Support Groups ◽  
Care Service ◽  
Social Needs ◽  
Mutual Aid ◽  
Public Provision ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Social Justice Movements ◽  
The One ◽  
Justice Movements

With over 2,000 support groups listed in Britain at the time of writing at the beginning of 2021, the growth of mutual aid has been among the more positive outcomes of the Covid-19 pandemic. So much for the neoliberal view of humans as rational individuals focused on the pursuit of their own self-interests, whatever the needs of others. For Marxists, though, the recent growth of mutual aid groups needs to be set within the framework of critical understandings about civil society, the respective roles of civil society, the market and the state, and the potential for building alternatives within capitalist societies. The Covid-19 pandemic has been highlighting the failures of market-led approaches to meeting people’s needs, demonstrating the need for more rather than less public provision, including the need for a national care service. Meanwhile, the voluntary and community sectors have been struggling to fill the gaps between shrinking public services on the one hand and growing social needs on the other. This has been the context for the emergence of the mutual aid groups that are the focus of the final section of this article, exploring their potential contributions, promoting values of mutuality, cooperation and care within these contemporary constraints. The article concludes by reflecting on the implications of such prefigurative community-based initiatives more generally, their contributions as well as their inherent limitations as component parts of social justice movements.

The Roma in Post-Communist Bulgaria: Growing Social Marginalization and State Policies

2020 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Yorgos Christidis
Keyword(s):  
Political Parties ◽  
Social Exclusion ◽  
Hate Crime ◽  
Hate Speech ◽  
Poor Performance ◽  
State Policies ◽  
Social Marginalization ◽  
Popular Support ◽  
Economic Problems ◽  
The Poor

This article analyzes the growing impoverishment and marginalization of the Roma in Bulgarian society and the evolution of Bulgaria’s post-1989 policies towards the Roma. It examines the results of the policies so far and the reasons behind the “poor performance” of the policies implemented. It is believed that Post-communist Bulgaria has successfully re-integrated the ethnic Turkish minority given both the assimilation campaign carried out against it in the 1980s and the tragic events that took place in ex-Yugoslavia in the 1990s. This Bulgaria’s successful “ethnic model”, however, has failed to include the Roma. The “Roma issue” has emerged as one of the most serious and intractable ones facing Bulgaria since 1990. A growing part of its population has been living in circumstances of poverty and marginalization that seem only to deteriorate as years go by. State policies that have been introduced since 1999 have failed at large to produce tangible results and to reverse the socio-economic marginalization of the Roma: discrimination, poverty, and social exclusion continue to be the norm. NGOs point out to the fact that many of the measures that have been announced have not been properly implemented, and that legislation existing to tackle discrimination, hate crime, and hate speech is not implemented. Bulgaria’s political parties are averse in dealing with the Roma issue. Policies addressing the socio-economic problems of the Roma, including hate speech and crime, do not enjoy popular support and are seen as politically damaging.

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