Participatory Research in the Post-Normal Age Unsustainability and U

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

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

Participatory Research in the Post-Normal Age

Leandro Luiz Giatti

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

Leandro Luiz Giatti School of Public Health University of São Paulo São Paulo, Brazil

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Preface

There are three main reasons that I can point out for writing this book. The first is academic, to contribute to the contemporary development of participatory research, emphasizing new necessary understandings and fostering expansion of potentialities and applicabilities. The second is a political motivation, mainly considering that the decision on this kind of research is entirely associated with collaborative learning a