Editor’s Foreword

Year 2014, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 1 - 2, 01.06.2014

Norma M Nel Norma Romm

https://doi.org/10.17275/per.14.0.1.1

Cited By: 4

Abstract

Because individuals, their families and communities are faced with
the challenges of daily life, solutions and support need to be found to
overcome these challenges. For social transformation to take place, and in
particular educational changes, the involvement and participation of all role
players in educational research is needed. As O’Hanlon avers: “Without personal
involvement in learning we simply reproduce the existing hegemony through the
repetition of traditional orthodoxy” (2003:101). He adds that: “There is a need
for an interpretive, discursive, inclusive and democratic investigatory process
to keep abreast of necessary social change.” (O’Hanlon 2003:117). Participatory
educational research is committed to developing knowledge through mutual
co-construction.

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References

• Cochran-Smith, M. and Lytle, S.L. 2009. Inquiry as stance: Practitioner Research for the Next Generation. London: Teachers College Press.
• O’Hanlon, C. 2003. Educational Inclusion as Action Research. England: Open University Press.
• Cresswell, J.W. 2007. Qualitative Inquiry & Research Design. London: SAGE.