Participatory action research publications in journal papers and reports

On this page you will find links to published journal papers and reports on and about PAR. The most recently published resources are shown first. Please send us your reports and journal paper links. If they are published papers that have been reviewed and finalised but are but not online let us know in the form you send and we will contact you in case we are able to upload them and make them available online.

Review of Action and Knowledge: Breaking the Monopoly with Participatory Action Research Orlando Fals-Borda and Mohammad Anisur Rahman (Eds.) 1991. New York: Apex Press

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Pyrch, T Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 5(2), 66-71.,1991
This article reviews one of the most seminal books in the history of PAR and a major contributor to the liberatory tradition in adult education. Written by Orlando Fals-Borda, a Colombian scholar and activist who worked mainly in Latin America, and Mohammad Anisur Rahman from Bangladesh. The book contains six vivencias or process studies of PAR in the Americas, Asia and Africa contributed by long time practitioners in those continents. This is a gold mine of theory and practice. The review summarises the book by chapter, giving brief summaries and case studies.

PLA Notes - archives 1988 to present

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International Institute of Environment and Development (IIED) and Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Sussex University
PLA Notes started in 1988, published about twice a year so that there are now 66 issues, all archived here by IIED. The publications challenge existing orthodoxies about the role of local people in the ownership and dissemination of ideas. and have become part of a political and social movement for transformational change across the development world. Each issue shares tips and tools, and also publishes articles on participatory processes and methods that strengthen rights, voices and governance, and promotes social justice in a range of different thematic contexts.