Lived experience is at the heart of participatory practice.
“Men and women make history from the starting point of given concrete circumstances, from structures that already exist when they are born….The future is something that is constantly taking place, and this constant ‘taking place means that the future only exists to the extent that we change the present. It is by changing the present that we build the future; therefore history is possibility, not determinism. (Freire P., 1993)
Paula Allman talks about the need to understand and use concepts more fluidly, more critically, more dialectically, if we are ‘to engage in authentic local and global social transformation’ (1999)
By making sense of our social reality, understanding the critical connections between our histories, cultures and differences, gaining insight into the relations of power that have shaped who we are in the world, we begin to grasp the links between ideology and alienation, and this helps us to dismantle the “common sense” that has led to dominant ideology that divides and alienates us from our natural participatory place in the web of life on earth.
Participatory approaches are committed to locating knowledge in every day life. Transformative practice begins in everyday lives. In our practice we bring ideas and knowledge and action together to produce orthofunction.
Participation is transformative. It is central to the purpose of CE. There are three key stages in the process of transformations: changing ourselves, connecting with others and changing the world.
“Men and women make history from the starting point of given concrete circumstances, from structures that already exist when they are born….The future is something that is constantly taking place, and this constant ‘taking place means that the future only exists to the extent that we change the present. It is by changing the present that we build the future; therefore history is possibility, not determinism. (Freire P., 1993)
Paula Allman talks about the need to understand and use concepts more fluidly, more critically, more dialectically, if we are ‘to engage in authentic local and global social transformation’ (1999)
By making sense of our social reality, understanding the critical connections between our histories, cultures and differences, gaining insight into the relations of power that have shaped who we are in the world, we begin to grasp the links between ideology and alienation, and this helps us to dismantle the “common sense” that has led to dominant ideology that divides and alienates us from our natural participatory place in the web of life on earth.
Participatory approaches are committed to locating knowledge in every day life. Transformative practice begins in everyday lives. In our practice we bring ideas and knowledge and action together to produce orthofunction.
Participation is transformative. It is central to the purpose of CE. There are three key stages in the process of transformations: changing ourselves, connecting with others and changing the world.
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