Participatory Action & Inclusive Lens

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This MicroCourse was developed exclusively for the MLEx Fellowship Programme by Dr Wangui Kimari. She is a social justice activist and anthropologist. She is the participatory action research coordinator for the Mathare Social Justice Centre in Nairobi, Kenya and is a Junior Research Fellow at the Institute for Humanities in Africa (HUMA) at the University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa.

Conventional research approaches, while important, reproduce problematic hierarchies between the researcher and ‘research subjects,’ while targeting, principally, contribution to a broad body of knowledge, rather than social change that should catalyze the constant interrogation of unequal power dynamics. In contrast, Participatory Action Research (PAR) seeks to rupture the hierarchies between academics and research ‘subjects’, towards enabling research processes and outputs that are more ethical, transformative and sustainable than the individual academic enterprise that has been normalised in university institutions. These benefits notwithstanding, PAR is not without its challenges. At the same time, recognising the value that this more democratic approach to research can bring to our communities and personal and collective research processes, this MLEx MicroCourse on Participatory Action Research seeks to set Fellows on the path towards engaging with PAR. 

The course is composed of the following lessons:

  1. Introduction to Participatory Action Research (PAR)
  2. How to Approach PAR in My Discipline-Live Event 
  3. Participatory Action Research (PAR) Case Studies 
  4. Learnings and Unlearnings – Live Event 

There will be two modules (all available on-demand) supported by two live sessions where Fellows will have a chance to apply their learnings to their own research, engage with their peers, as well as receive direct feedback from Dr Wangui Kimari. 

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