Drawing primarily from critical traditions in social and educational research, this book frames contemporary issues and several conceptual, theoretical-analytical and onto-epistemic approaches towards the development and practice of PAR (Participatory Action Research) in multiple educational spaces and initiatives for socio-cultural change.

Dip Kapoor is an associate professor, International Education, in Educational Policy Studies, University of Alberta

Introduction: International Perspectives on Education, PAR, and Social Change; D.Kapoor& S.Jordan PART I: INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES ON EDUCATION AND PAR From a Methodology of the Margins to Neoliberal Appropriation and Beyond: Lineages of PAR; S.Jordan Subaltern Social Movements (SSM) and the Politicization of PAR; D.Kapoor When Research becomes a Revolution: Participatory Action Research with Indigenous Peoples; C.Weber-Pillwax Ko tatou te rangahau, ko te rangahau ko tatou: A Maori Approach to Participatory Action Research; L.Te Aika& J.Greenwood Translating 'Participation' from North to South: A Case Against Intellectual Imperialism in Social Science Research; C.Chambers& H.Balanoff Action Research for Curriculum Internationalization: Education versus Commercialization; R.McTaggart& G.Curro Critical Complexity and Participatory Action Research: Decolonizing 'Democratic' Knowledge Production; J.Kincheloe Reconceptualizing Participatory Action Research for Sustainability Education; E.Lange PART II: INTERNATIONAL CONTEXTS: CASE STUDIES OF PAR, EDUCATION, AND SOCIAL CHANGE Chara chimwe hachitswanyi inda: Indigenizing Science Education in Zimbabwe; E.Shizha Research and Agency: The Case of Rural Women and Land Tenure in Tanzania; C.Mhina NGO-Community Partnerships, PAR, and Learning in Mining Struggles in Ghana; V.Kwai Pun Ethnography-in-Motion: Neo-liberalism and the Shack-Dwellers Movement in South Africa; S.Walsh Kabyle Community Participatory Action Research (CPAR) in Algeria: Reflections on Research, Amazigh Identity, and Schooling; T.Belkacem Notes and Queries for an Activist Street Anthropology: Street Resistance, Gringopolítica, and the Quest for Subaltern Visions in Salvador da Bahia, Brazil; S.Veissiere A Participatory Research Approach to Exploring Social Movement Learning in the Chilean Women's Movement; D.Chovanec& H.Gonzalez Participatory Research and Grassroots Development: Challenges in Rural Bangladesh; B.Barua Making Space for Youth:iHuman Youth Society and Arts-Based Participatory Research with Street-Involved Youth in Canada; D.Conrad& W.Kendal