"Drawing on a rich variety of participatory action research (PAR) methods including ethnographic observation, artefact collection, focus groups, and interviews, this volume explores the transformational potential of development programs which actively involve marginalized groups. Foregrounding the experiences of female migrant workers in Beirut, the text reveals how direct participation in NGO-led, community programs and education empowers women to create counter-cultural communities and spaces for learning and activism. The text ultimately combines aspects of critical pedagogy, spatial analysis, and third world feminisms to propose a subaltern praxis for research, development, and teaching. It will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in research methods in education, migration, equality and human rights and the anthropology of education"--
Drawing on a rich variety of participatory action research methods including ethnographic observation, artefact collection, focus groups, and interviews, this volume explores the transformational potential of development programs which actively involve marginalized groups. Foregrounding the experiences of women migrant workers in Beirut, the text reveals how direct participation in NGO-led, community programs and education empowers women to create counter-cultural communities and spaces for learning and activism. The text ultimately combines aspects of critical pedagogy, spatial analysis, and Third World feminisms to propose a critical subaltern praxis for research, development, and teaching. It will appeal to scholars and researchers with interests in research methods in education, migration, equality and human rights and the anthropology of education.
Drawing on a rich variety of participatory action research (PAR) methods including ethnographic observation, artefact collection, focus groups, and interviews, this volume explores the transformational potential of development programs which actively involve marginalized groups.
1. Introduction: The Intersection of Migrant Domestic Labor in Beirut,
Lebanon and the Development Sector, Understanding Critical Theory and Its
Frameworks as It Applies to the Development Sector and NGO Work,
Participatory Action Research at the Migrant Center,
4. Subaltern
Epistemologies, Part I: Stories of Oppression and Resistance,
5. Subaltern
Epistemologies, Part II: Articulating Agency, Power, and Empowerment,
6.
Education, Empowerment, and Activism in Beiruts NGO Spaces,
7. Critical
Subaltern Pedagogy and Practice: The Ideology and Functionality of Beiruts
Migrant and Activist Communities
Shireen Keyl is Assistant Professor in the School of Teacher Education and Leadership at Utah State University, US.
