| Purpose: This module will enable the student to help targeted people and groups to critically examine different ways of looking at problems in their communities, workplaces, and other learning sites and to mutually explore ways of framing and re-framing them. It will also enable students to recognise that research into their own practices is a way of enhancing self-critical awareness of these practices with a view to revising them. The module focuses on skilling educators, lecturers and practitioners in the field of adult and community education and training in how to use research as a mechanism for self- and collective reflection on practices in the classroom and outside thereof - in communities and in workplaces. It serves to provide students with an understanding and applied competence in using participatory research approaches to facilitate processes of learning. It also serves to generate increased awareness of ethical issues that may confront researchers conducting research in the field of adult education |
