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Journal article "Participatory Learning and Action No. 57 Immersions: learning about poverty face to face"
Document ID: G02230
Overview: Immersions: something is happening
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Published: Dec 2007 - IIED
Topic: Participation
Languages: English
Also in Arabic
Also in Arabic
This is the Overview to the special issue on experiences of face-to-face learning, often referred to as immersions.
Immersions are opportunities for development professionals to spend a period of time living with and learning from a poor family. This issue has no precedent. There have been earlier issues devoted to special topics, but none of its predecessors have focused as this one does on the heart of development awareness, commitment, and practice. The experiences described here inspire and disturb. They challenge us professionally, institutionally, and personally. They show that, quietly, something with immense promise has been happening and is gathering momentum. They drive us to ask how much immersions could transform the quality of what is done in the name of development.
Immersions are opportunities for development professionals to spend a period of time living with and learning from a poor family. This issue has no precedent. There have been earlier issues devoted to special topics, but none of its predecessors have focused as this one does on the heart of development awareness, commitment, and practice. The experiences described here inspire and disturb. They challenge us professionally, institutionally, and personally. They show that, quietly, something with immense promise has been happening and is gathering momentum. They drive us to ask how much immersions could transform the quality of what is done in the name of development.
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