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Journal article
Enlivening popular education in community development: Action research with neighborhood Centres and Landcare groups in Australia
Community Development, Vol.55(2), pp.246-261
2024
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Abstract
This article, drawing on an action research project, argues for the revitalized use of two under-utilized practice frameworks for community development in the pursuit of social change. The two frameworks - Participatory Development Practice and the Spiral Model of Community Education - support a citizen-led approach to practice, one that focuses on the relational and dialogical elements of group processes. Starting with stories of citizens' lived experiences, a structural or community analysis about the root causes of oppression is enabled and supports community action that can be sustained over time. Findings from the action research showed that groups benefitted from foregrounding their own need for social sustainability and that the educational approach of Freire helped them shift from an antagonistic conflict mode to a dialogical or agonistic conflict mode which created confidence to engage in difficult conversations supporting their community development efforts.
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- Title
- Enlivening popular education in community development: Action research with neighborhood Centres and Landcare groups in Australia
- Authors
- Athena Lathouras (Corresponding Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Law and SocietyPeter Westoby (Author) - Deakin University
- Publication details
- Community Development, Vol.55(2), pp.246-261
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Date published
- 2024
- DOI
- 10.1080/15575330.2023.2225096
- ISSN
- 1944-7485; 1557-5330
- Copyright note
- © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
- Grant note
- University of the Sunshine Coast’s Industry Collaboration Grant
- Organisation Unit
- School of Law and Society
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99737598202621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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