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Nurturing
Participation: A Facilitator's Introduction to Adult Nonformal Education
and Participatory Training Dr. Bonnie B. Mullinix
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nonformal education and participatory training, components central
to any community development or adult basic education or literacy
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designed to be delivered over four intensive, residential days.
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The Emergence of Transnational
Grassroots Movements
V.
Women in the Informal Economy
Globalizing and Organizing
VI.
Slum/Shack Dwellers International
VII.
Why They Work and Why They
Are Different
VIII.
Conclusion
Landscaping
the Learning Environment to Create a Home for the Complex Mind By Jan Visser order
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$4.00
33 pages
2001
Contents:
I.
A Story to Begin With
II.
The Wondrous Ways of Learning
III.
Mind
IV.
Mind's Matter
V.
On the Matter of Consciousness
VI.
Creating a Home for the
Complex Mind
Organic Integrity of
Learning
Landscaping the Learning
Environment
VII.
Notes
VIII.
References
Participatory
Research and Action:
Flower, Weed, or Genetically Modified Monster? By Eileen Kane
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$4.00
36 pages
2000
Contents:
Preface
I.
Introduction
II.
What are Participatory
Approaches?
III.
What Underlies PRA?
IV.
The Relationship between
PRA's Philosophy of Knowledge and its Methodological Mix
V.
Looking Inward and Outward
to Broaden Our Philosophical Perspectives
VI.
Conclusion
Notes
The Origins
and Challenges of Participatory Action Research
By Orlando Fals Borda order
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$4.00
30
pages
1999
Contents:
Preface
I.
Introduction
II.
On Science, Knowledge and
Reason
III.
On Theory and Practice
IV.
On Subject and Object
V.
P(A)R as a Philosophy of
Life
VI.
Some Emergent Challenges
Bibliography
METHODS,
TRAINING & MATERIALS DEVELOPMENT
Nurturing
Participation: A Facilitator's Introduction to Adult Nonformal Education
and Participatory Training Dr. Bonnie B.
Mullinix
This manual provides facilitators with
a session-by-session guide for introducing participants to nonformal education
and participatory training, components central to any community development
or adult basic education or literacy effort. It covers a 33 contact hour
Training of Trainers (ToT) Workshop designed to be delivered over four
intensive, residential days. The manual includes detailed session plans
and all references, handouts and materials needed to facilitate the training.
Although originally designed for use by NGO Trainers of Literacy Workers,
it can easily be adapted for use in other contexts and setting
Critical
Games Developed by Mary Jo Connelly, Jane T. Benbow, Deborah
Fredo and Maria Diarra Keita. Edited by James Cummings
Four games designed to stimulate critical thinking about
the effects of structural and cultural issues on the process of social
change: The Gender Game and The Education and Gender Game.
Effective Educational Radio: An Approach
to Analyzing Programs By James M. Theroux
The use of radio as an instructional tool requires
analytical tools and concepts which link program variables to audience
impact. The author discusses the range of variables that can be manipulated
by a radio producer and offers a series of diagnostic questions for the
design and analysis of educational radio programs.
Modules for Training Extension Workers
with Handouts By Martin Byram
A practical, field-based publication which provides training
modules for extension workers in the areas of basic education needs; community
mobilization needs; and work management skills. Loose leaf modules facilitate
reproduction.
Teaching Non-Western Studies: A
Handbook of Materials and Methods By Stephen Guild, George Urch, and Robert Wilk
A handbook which provides methods and techniques
that are designed to involve students in a variety of learning activities
to broaden their perceptions of the world. The activities are student
oriented and include an overview of approaches to teaching about the non-Western
world. The hand-book includes models of non-Western studies programs and
a list of major resources and curriculum projects in non-Western studies.
Learning Centered Training for Learner
Centered Programs By Suzanne Kindervatter
This is an account of a learner-centered workshop in materials
and curriculum development for Thai nonformal educators. The author discusses
the rationale for a learner-centered approach, its key characteristics and
how to translate this approach into a workshop design. Appendices include
materials developed from the Thai workshop.
Theater for Development: A Guide
to Training By Martin L. Byram Illustrated by Daniel C. Aryeequaye
A guide for village level trainers which describes the use
of popular theater in development. It explores related issues and the impact
of popular theater on community development and community awareness.
African
Studies Handbook for Teachers Edited by Margaret Maxwell (McLaughlin)
This handbook provides introductory
lessons on Africa applicable to elementary and secondary levels. The lesson
format is competency based and affective in purpose. The handbook includes
a bibliography of literature and audio-visual materials about Africa.
Learning to Listen: A Field Guide to Methods
of Adult Nonformal Education By Jane K. Vella
This booklet describes practical ways to implement theories
of adult learning. Adopting the perspective of the field worker, the author
discusses ways of listening to groups, sharing rather than transmitting
information, and methods of problem posing in education. Includes
the use of codes, role playing, games and folk material.
Visual Aids for Nonformal Education By Jane K. Vella
A valuable guide for field workers in nonformal education
to create visual aids with materials that are available. The author draws
on her work in Kenya and Tanzania to present numerous suggestions for the
field worker to make inexpensive materials.
This updated, fourth edition of dissertation abstracts by
CIE members reflects the CIEs commitment to theories of self-reliance
and empowerment throughout the world. The document introduces the range
of subjects studied by CIE members and serves as a useful guide for
those engaged in a preliminary exploration of both conventional and alternative
research methodologies.
Nurturing
Participation: A Facilitator's Introduction to Adult Nonformal Education
and Participatory Training Dr. Bonnie
B. Mullinix
This manual provides facilitators with a session-by-session
guide for introducing participants to nonformal education and participatory
training, components central to any community development or adult basic
education or literacy effort. It covers a 33 contact hour Training of
Trainers (ToT) Workshop designed to be delivered over four intensive,
residential days. The manual includes detailed session plans and all references,
handouts and materials needed to facilitate the training. Although originally
designed for use by NGO Trainers of Literacy Workers, it can easily be
adapted for use in other contexts and settings.
The Participatory Process: Producing
Photoliterature By Bonnie Cain and John Coming
This note describes a step-by-step process for involving learners in the
development, production and evaluation of various types of photoliterature
including fotonovellas. Technical information on photographic techniques
is presented to assist educators in the participatory process.
Participatory Research: An Annotated
Bibliography Compiled and Edited by the Center for Community Education
and Action (CCEA) in collaboration with CIE.
This bibliography contains over 200 annotations of key articles,
texts, and unpublished documents on Participatory Research (PR). Entries
are included from the CCEA Resource Center, the previously published PRG
annotated bibliography, articles and other resources. The text is indexed
by key-words based on content of entries as well as critical concepts in
PR.
Doing
Participatory Research: A Feminist Approach By Patricia Maguire
The author uncovers the biases of traditional research
by engaging in participatory research with a group of abused women
in Gallup, New Mexico. She uses Paulo Freires concept of dialogue
to talk with the women, transcribes the interviews and presents the women
in their own words as they move through a cycle of reflection and action
to answer how to move forward in their lives after living with violent
men. This creative work will involve the reader in both theory and practice.
Participatory Evaluation Among
Rural Women: Charting the Birth of Articulation and Power By Jane Benbow
A description of a pilot project to integrate women in
Rose Hall, St. Vincent, Barbados into rural development. The book details
the process whereby the women chose their own path to development. Their
successful activities include creating adult education and pre-school
programs and building a community center, illustrating how women in Rose
Hall do development through their leadership and vision for
their communitys development. By addressing important theoretical
and practical implications of the project, this book makes a valuable
contribution to the women in development discourse.
Women in Development: An Alternative
Analysis By Patricia Maguire
An overview of the women in development effort (WID) that
includes chapters on WID theory, critical analysis of AID and UN agency
projects and alternative approaches to WID. A bibliography contains nearly
150 sources.
African Women Organizing: Four Ways
of Seeing By Marla J. Solomon
A study which looks at womens organizations in Africa
from various perspectives, including those which seeks ways of seeing
and knowing that move forward a feminist agenda, and celebrates the
experiences of being woven in the text."
Gender and Development: Women Centered
Training By Janis Droegkamp and Fredi Munger
This note details issues and strategies pertinent to trainings
for women. It outlines principles and assumptions behind women-centered
training and presents a six-step training design. A variety of exercises
are used throughout the text to help readers clarify their own attitudes
toward the issues and practice their training skills.
Nurturing
Participation: A Facilitator's Introduction to Adult Nonformal Education
and Participatory Training Dr. Bonnie B.
Mullinix
This manual provides facilitators with a session-by-session
guide for introducing participants to nonformal education and participatory
training, components central to any community development or adult basic
education or literacy effort. It covers a 33 contact hour Training of
Trainers (ToT) Workshop designed to be delivered over four intensive,
residential days. The manual includes detailed session plans and all references,
handouts and materials needed to facilitate the training. Although originally
designed for use by NGO Trainers of Literacy Workers, it can easily be
adapted for use in other contexts and settings.
Many
Literacies: Modules for Training Adult Beginning Readers and Tutors By Marilyn Gillespie, Illustrations by Kathy Searle
Twenty-seven modules designed and tested at Read/Write/Now
Adult Learning Center in Springfield, Massachusetts provide teachers and
tutors with research on literacy. Step-by step guidelines describe how
to build a community of learners, set personal goals for learning and
use life experiences to write and publish learner-generated materials.
Games and Simulation in Literacy
Training By David R. Evans
A monograph on instructional technology which
presents innovative teaching-learning possibilities through games and
simulations. Geared toward literacy workers and learners, it describes
a variety of games and simulations from planning and design to implementation.
Discussions of participatory learning and learner-control of these instructional
technologies are interwoven in the text.
Action
Learning:
A Series of Manuals for Literacy Practitioners
This series was developed to assist
community-based practitioners expand their knowledge of the theory
and practice of adult literacy in non-formal education. The goal
of the series is to enable practitioners to develop literacy activities
and materials based on local needs, interests and resources. The
seven manuals, designed to complement each other, can also be used
independently. The series was developed by the Literacy Linkage
Programa collaboration between the CIE and the Research Centre
for Educational Innovation and Development (CERID) at Tribhuvan
University in Nepal.
1. Whole Language: An Integrated
Approach to Reading and Writing By Joan Dixon and Sumon Tuladhar
A manual which introduces the basic concepts for
teaching reading and writing skills by creating literacy activities
and learning materials in collaboration with learners. Portions
of the manual were developed and tested with practitioners in Indonesia
and Nepal.
2. Supervision and Facilitator
Support By Mainus Sultan
A manual designed for organizations which employ facilitators
in different sites and who need to provide them with ongoing supervision
and support. The manual provides information and activities which
are based on the authors experience organizing and supervising
literacy programs in Bangladesh.
3. Producing Newsletters
for New Literates Mainus Sultan
This manual provides detailed information on one method
for creating local literacy materials. It is based on the author's
experience producing newsletters and learner-generated materials in
Bangladesh.
4. Literacy and Learning
in Families and Communities By Joan Dixon and Joanie Cohen
This manual introduces practitioners to basic concepts and strategies
for action research in their communities to identify local themes
and develop culturally relevant literacy programs.
This manual outlines how to assess the progress of
literacy learners in whole language literacy. Literacy teachers in
Massachusetts developed many of the ideas and assessment tools in
the manual, which have been adapted to encourage experimentation and
use by literacy programs in developing countries.
A manual which introduces creative strategies for the use of role
play to stimulate discussion, analysis and writing activities that
are based on the daily lives of literacy learners. The information
is based on the authors experience working with literacy groups
in Bangladesh and in the U.S.
7. Gender Perspectives in
Literacy Sushan Acharya and Joanie Cohen
A manual which explores how gender issues affect literacy programs
and womens and girls education. The information is based
on the authors work with womens groups in Nepal and Latin
America.
This book is designed to help organizations
and individuals working in associations, task forces, networks, councils,
consortia and partnerships. Written for both beginning and seasoned practitioners
and trainers, it provides a unique conceptual framework for analyzing
collaborative efforts. The book includes exercises to help develop
concrete strategies to avoid common pitfalls and to create and sustain
effective partnerships.
This training of trainers manual helps the reader to develop
a picture of the role that training can play in the development of any group,
and takes the reader through a 7 step planning sequences for citizen group
training.
Local Currencies in Community Development
or Too Much Mngwotngwotiki is Bad for You By Tony Savdie and Tim Mitchell
This useful resource guide for trainers and community activists discusses
alternative currencies as part of creating alternative economic systems
at the local level. The guide includes a case study of HOURS in Ithaca,
New York and a discussion of the scripts and LETS alternative currency systems
ands their usefulness to community-development.
A manual to help individuals and citizens groups understand
U.S. federal, state and local governmental structures and information on
how to lobby, and hold agencies and elected officials accountable.
Designed to help groups and organizations gain a clearer
understanding of differences in society, why they exist, and how to deal
with them effectively.
Groups need to plan creatively in order to come up with innovative programs
and strategies. This manual helps groups by providing specific methods in
an easy-to- follow exercise format.
A training manual that makes proposal writing and other aspects
of the fund-raising process more understandable and manageable. The manual
includes proposal writing, researching and potential funding sources, and
other fund-raising approaches.
A manual with 250 pages of activities and information based
on a six stage developmental cycle that offers a practical process for turning
the theory of networking into reality.
Learning Together: A Cultural
Approach to Community Development
A practical guide to understanding the real-life, complicated
issues that arise when two cultures interact. The manual is organized around
issues rather than as a step-by step guide.: Part I, A Conceptual
Framework, introduces the concepts of cultural awareness and the process
of cross-cultural adaptation. Part II, Community Development Processes,
presents community development processes through the cultural lens introduced
in Part I. Each chapter can be read independently or in conjunction with
the other chapters.
An action guide that examines examples of citizen involvement
and explores what citizen action can become. The manual includes a planning
guide and a checklist for suggested strategies.
A step-by-step do it yourself manual that helps community
groups build membership, improve participation and run smoother meetings.
The manual provides guidelines for process observation and other group process
concerns.
Each training module in this series is the result
of leadership training and education work with members of refugee
and immigrant communities to build the capacity of newcomer communities
to improve their quality of life.. The modules utilize a problem-solving
approach linked with forms of action-reflection which can be adapted
to the sociocultural realities of individual participants and their
communities:
Module: Group Process
This module addresses fundamental issues and dynamics
of working as a group for collective action., including communication
and conflict resolution. Exercises and puzzles help participants
learn how group building requires maintaining a team spirit while
accomplishing a task.
A module to understand and address the complexities of doing effective
community outreach to provide the skills necessary to initiate community
work. The module includes methods for implementing community
development programs, including community mapping, outreach techniques
and participatory action research
This training module is designed to help community leaders and community
development practitioners share bilingual/bicultural experiences,
gain familiarity with issues and terminology, and achieve an understanding
of the complex worlds of bilingual and bicultural communities.
The module also discusses differing cultural attitudes between primary
and Americanized cultures.
This module provides an introduction in how to become an effective
trainer/educator, beginning with an exploration of different beliefs
and assumptions about teaching and learning. It uses participatory
methods and techniques to explore traditional and new ways of learning
and assessing needs.
Global
Education Handbook: Modules for Teaching Pre-School to Secondary School By George Urch et al.
This handbook was developed to assist
K-12 teachers who wish to introduce a global perspective into their curriculum.
The modules were developed by classroom teachers and include such topics
as: "Anti-bias Curriculum: A Multicultural Perspective, The
African Influence in Puerto Rican Music, and Multicultural
Education: An Approach through Beauty, Fashion and Art. Organized
according to grade levels, each module is divided into a series of lessons
complete with objectives and a detailed description of materials and activities.
Beyond Schools: Education for
Economic, Social, and Personal Development
This book presents a variety of case studies which illustrate
the important education that takes place beyond formal schooling. Case
studies range from a boat building apprenticeship program in Maine to
a rural development project in Sri Lanka and provide a conceptual frame-work
to understand the relationship among these varied educational approaches.
The book explores use of the Lifelong Learning Scale as a diagnostic tool
to enable practitioners to explore a wide variety of educational settings
and make comparisons across fields. The analytical framework helps to
translate the many languages used by trainers, consultants, counselors,
and teachers in different work settings into a common set of questions,
making dialogue, mutual learning, and linkages across fields more probable.
1. NGOs in Indonesia: Issues
of Hegemony and Social Change By Mansour Fakih 1991
This paper traces the role of NGOs in development, modernization
and capitalism in Indonesia. It offers a typology of alternative NGO structures
and paradigms which allows NGOs to transform development, involve people
and create a counter-hegemonic movement.
2. NGOs in Latin America: Issues and Characteristics of
NGOs Involved in Development By Eloy Anello, 1991
Since the 1950s, NGOs have featured prominently in
education, development and social change movements in Latin America since
the 1950s. This paper provides concrete examples of the roles NGOs
have played in research and development. An analysis of NGO characteristics
and a functional typology based on their delivery of services, research
focus and grassroots action is provided.
3. NGOs in the Sahel: Issues in Cooperation for Natural
Resources Management By Jonathan Otto, 1991
This paper explores NGOs working in natural resources management
in the Sahel. By combining historical perspectives and cultural
analysis, the paper provides an overview of the issues and actions taken
over the past 40 years. Special attention is given to national and international
NGOs, grassroots organizations, donors and the governments involved.
NGO Series: $5.00 each; $12.00 for complete
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1. The Ecuador Project: the goals, philosophy and methodology
of a rural NFE project.
2. Conscientizacao and Simulation Games: Paolo Freires
educational philosophy and the use of simulation games for consciousness-
raising.
3. Hacienda: a board game which simulates economic and social
realities of the Ecuadorian Sierra.
4. Mercado: a card game that provides practice in basic marketing
mathematics.
5. Ashton-Warner Literacy Method: a modified version of Sylvia
Ashton-Warners approach to literacy training used in Ecuadorian
villages.
6. Letter Dice: a simple, letter fluency game that involves
pre-literates in a non-threatening approach to literacy.
7. Number Bingo: the game Bingo as a way to teach
basic numeracy skills in village situations.
8. Math Fluency Games: a variety of simple games which provide
practice in basic math.
9. Letter Fluency Games: simple, inexpensive devised designed
to offer practice in the component skills necessary for literacy.
The note discusses a variety of fluency techniques.
10. Tabacundo: Battery Powered Dialogue: use of a tape recorder
for feedback and programming in a rural radio school program.
11. The Facilitator Model: the facilitator concept for community
development in rural education.
12. Puppets and the Theater: the use of theater, puppets and
music for literacy and consciousness awareness in a rural community.
13. Fotonovella: developing and using photoliterature for
literacy and consciousness-raising.
14. The Ecuadorian Game: a board game which simulates inequities
of many educational systems.
15. The Fun Bus: an NFE project in Massachusetts, USA which
used music, puppetry and drama to involve people in workshops on
town issues.
16. Field Training through Case Studies: provides village
case studies as a training method for community development workers
in Indonesia.
17. Participatory Communication in Nonformal Education: simple
processing techniques for information sharing, formative evaluation
and staff communication.
18. Bintang Anda: A Game Process for Community Development:
an integrated community development approach based on simulation
games.
19. Using Consultants for Materials Development: an approach
to selecting and utilizing short-term consultants for materials
development.
20. Designing and Using Simulations for Training: the steps
involved in designing and conducting simulations. Two simulations
are presented..
21. The Q-Sort as a Needs Assessment Technique: how to adapt
a research technique for needs assessment in nonformal education.
22. The Learning Fund: Income Generation through NFE: a program
which combines educational and income-generation activities through
learning groups.
23. Game of Childhood Diseases: a board game which addresses
health concerns of children in the developing world.
24. Road to Birth Game: a board game which addresses
prenatal health concerns of women in the developing world.
25. Discussion Starters: describes how to facilitate dialogue
in community groups using simple audio-visual materials.
26. Record Keeping for Small Rural Businesses: practical
examples and lessons for small income generating projects.
27. Community Newspaper: how to create and publish a community
newspaper in a participatory fashion.
28. Skills Drills: a self-teaching math skills game for students
to learn and practice math on their own.
29. Jigsaw Map Making and Photo/Writing Wrap-up: Two Needs
Assessment Tools: examines two participatory activities used in
training community development workers in rural Cambodia to collect
data and to assess and prioritize village needs. The methods are
designed for application in other contexts.
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