Social Sciences: Participatory Methods of Change and Development

This unique course focuses on change and development through the use of participatory methods, where affected groups and individuals are involved in change processes like community development and organisation development. The course is hands-on and stresses skills, competencies and knowledge use that are required to make changes and development in communities and organisations sustainable.

The course presents themes of participatory research, democratic forms of knowledge, involvement of people in social and organizational change. These themes are interdisciplinary and can be illuminated from different scientific disciplines and perspectives. From various disciplines’ point of view the course illustrates participatory aspects of community, working life, physical and urban planning, as well as in research and deliberative politics. The central part of the course is to enable you to practice and gain experience of different participatory methods in order to use them professionally, but also develop a reflective and critical perspective on these methods.

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