Participatory practice : community-based action for transformative change / Margaret Ledwith and Jane Springett.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ledwith, Margaret, author.

Springett, Jane, author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Community development.

Social participation.

Social change.

Social Participation.

Medical Subjects:

Social Participation.

Physical Description:

xviii, 294 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2022.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: Jane's story

Margaret's story

Our joint story

Note on terminology

Note on icons

pt. I A participatory paradigm

1. Participatory practice

What is participation?

Theme 1 Participatory practice as social justice in action

Theme 2 Participatory practice as a worldview

Theme 3 Participatory practice as the embodiment of values and principles

Theme 4 Participatory practice as a relational process

Theme 5 Participatory practice as interdependence and interbeing

Theme 6 Participatory practice as inner and outer transformation

Theme 7 Participatory practice as living the questions and critical thinking

Theme 8 Participatory practice as an ecological imperative

Towards collective health and well-being through participatory practice

What is to come in this book

2. Troubled times

Values lie at the heart of the matter

We are living through an epoch in world history

Critique of the political context is the catalyst for transformative practice

Question contradictions!

Values change the way we see the world

The British welfare state: a social justice revolution

The Beveridge Report: a common good embedded in policy

The invention of neoliberalism

The year of the barricades that heralded an opportunity for change

A missed opportunity

Explore the question `Who gets to eat?'

Big electoral change from Right to Left (or so we thought)

A decade of `austerity' Britain

At last, a critical analysis from a human rights perspective!

Values, critical consciousness and change

How did they pull it off?

Whose lives matter?

What do we care about? What are our values?

Kindness and kinship: a different lens for a decent future

3. The participatory worldview

The Western mind

Indigenous ways of knowing

The medicine wheel

Ecological and complex systems as participatory thinking

Western participatory worldviews: ecological ways of thinking

Characteristics of a living system that help us to think participatively

The Relational: cooperation, co-evolution and co-creation/co-production

Consciousness, the self and the spiritual

Putting it all together: reframing our view of the world to change our practice

So, what does thinking participatively really mean for our practice?

4. Participatory practice in a non-participatory world

Participatory practice over the last decade

Participatory practice in the arts

Community arts in health as a case study

Participatory practice in health research

Participatory practice in local government

Participatory practice in food and resource management systems

Reflections on participatory practice in a non-participatory world

The embodiment of values

pt. II Participatory praxis

5. Storytelling praxis

The relevance of story to participatory practice

The personal is political

The importance of voicing values

The use of story to critique the dominant narrative

Counternarratives

Be curious!

Emancipatory action research as a unity of praxis

Change the story!

Listening from the heart

Slowing the mind and reaching inside to the spirit

Imagination in the art of storytelling

Imagination in the art of poetry

`Transformation of silence into language and action'

6. The role of dialogue

So, what is dialogue?

Going deeper: deconstructing the essence of dialogue

Creating a collective identity

Creating the conditions for dialogue: understanding your context and preparing people

The conditions for dialogue: circle as a safe dialogical space

Creating dialogical/rhetorical/communicative spaces: some examples from practice

Dialogue and social change

The dynamic of dialogue as a key to transformation

7. Critical reflection and reflexivity

Being critical

Understanding reflection as the key to learning and transformation

Opening up space for reflection in a non-participatory world

Towards critical reflexivity

Becoming critically reflexive: drawing on critical theorists

Reflecting on power

Antonio Gramsci

Jurgen Habermas

Pierre Bourdieu

Michel Foucault

Moving critique further

Taking critical reflection forward

8. Transformative practice

How to make participatory practice transformative

What sort of world do we want to live in?

Paulo Freire and transformative practice

Values are the bedrock of change

Radical empathy

Empathy in action

Getting familiar with Freire

Digging deeper into Freire

Extending Freire into intersectionality

Acting on Freire

9. Becoming whole

Crisis is a chance for change

Critique is essential for change

Storytelling is great at raising questions

Digging deeper

A participatory ideology

A counternarrative of change

A participatory paradigm shift

An ecological framework for a participatory worldview

From Ego to Eco

Paradigm wars

The International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report 2021

Neoliberal paradigm vs an indigenous paradigm

Practising participatory values

Gramsci: the old is dying and the new cannot be born

Gramsci and feminism

Freire and intersectionality: reconceptualising power

Education for critical consciousness

Storytelling as problematising

Critical connections in participatory practice

Participatory action research as a unity of praxis

Ideas are the basis of change - but are we asking the right questions?

Changing love of POWER to the power of LOVE!.

Notes:

Previous edition: 2010.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

ebook version :

ISBN:

9781447360070

1447360079

OCLC:

1308620099