Course Description/Goals (for question 3):
By the end of the semester, you will have:
experienced, learned, and practiced a set of tools and processes to promote participation and reflective practice (including your own participation);
learned to formulate informative comparisons as a basis for evaluations;
examined critically the evaluations of others (or the lack of the appropriate evaluations), including the influences of political context on evaluation and research;
considered the ideal of participatory action research in relation to politics generated from below; and
undertaken a project in an area of your particular concern in which you design (and, optionally, carry out) an Action Research process using the Cycles and Epicycles framework.