PLA 29: Performance and Participation
The special theme of this issue of Participatory Learning and Action is the use of performative media in participatory development.
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June 1997
Guest Editor: Andrea Cornwall
The contributors to the theme section examine how the creative potential of the arts can be used as part of a participatory process and how PRA practitioners might benefit from integrating performative and artistic media into the PRA process. Articles explore the use of participatory theatre to articulate and express the issues that affect people; the use of the language of theatre in participatory monitoring and evaluation; using ‘legislative theatre’ for policy research; using theatre in a participatory educational process; the use of visual and verbal art and video; intersections between theatre and PRA; and using drama in PRA training.
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Contents
Analysing communication in participatory appraisal
Katrin Linzer and Robert Kowalski
Using PRA in organisational self-assessment
Michael Edwards
Involving resource-poor farmers in agricultural extension
S.K. Pradhan
How big should on-farm trials be and how many plots should be measured?
William J. Fielding and Janet Riley
Performance and Participation
Performance and participation: an overview
Andrea Cornwall
Theatre for development, participatory monitoring and cultural feedback
Alex Mavrocordatos
Drama as a discussion starter in research and education
Korrie de Koning
Theatre and video for development
Francis Harding
A day in the village with 'positive people' or 'neno nigi kute ayaki'
Lenin Ogolla
Rehearsing for reality: using role-play to transform attitudes and behaviour
Rose Mbowa
From acting to taking action: forum and legislative theatre
Adrian Jackson
Asylum' - theatre for development in Oxford
Alison Norris
There's more than one art to creative PRA
Helen Gould
Using participatory group activities to understand psycho-social strategies for coping with conflict
Dieneke van der Wijk
Giving people a voice rather than a message
Lars Johansson and Dominick de Waal
Video: a tool for participation
Megan Lloyd Laney
Video and PRA in Eastern Burkina Faso
Eleanor Smithies
The act of participation: a context for linking drama and PRA
Rachel Searle-Mbullu and Kate Norrish
PRA and theatre for development in Southern India
Kirsty Smith, Susanna Wilford and Ruth O’Connell
Participatory approaches to the use of drama in sexual and reproductive health programmes
Gordon Gill
Dramatic behaviour in participatory training
Koos Neefjes
Drama, PRA and the academic institution
Pat Norrish
Feedback: Time, representation and feedback in participatory programme design
Steve Evison, with a response from Meera Kaul Shah
- The need to cross-check the results of wealth ranking
N. Naraynasamy and S. Manivei - Sexuality lifelines:-participatory assessment of reproductive health
F. McConville
