Participatory Research in the Post-Normal Age Unsustainability and Uncertainties to Rethink Paulo Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed /

• Main Author: Giatti, Leandro Luiz (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Epistemology.; Social sciences.; Health promotion.; Methodology of the Social Sciences.; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention.

This book shows how participatory research can provide tools to overcome the current epistemic and ethical challenges faced by traditional scientific approaches. Ever since Funtowicz and Ravetz proposed the notion of post-normal science, there has been a growing awareness of the limits of a form of...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: The relevance of participatory approaches towards contemporary dilemmas
• 2. Insights from the contemporary contradictions in science-society relationship
• 3. Participation and sustainability
• 4. Adaptive methods
• 5. The need for a taxonomy
• 6. Concluding on the role of participatory approaches for the post-normal age.