Development, Education, and Participatory Action Research to Empower Marginalized Groups: Subaltern Ways of Knowing Among Migrant Domestic Workers

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Eighteen
  In Roundtable Session: Teachers, Teaching, and Multicultural Education (Table 11)

Abstract

Drawing on a rich variety of participatory action research methods including ethnographic observation, artefact collection, focus groups, and interviews, this research explores the transformational potential of development programs which actively involve marginalized groups. Foregrounding the experiences of women migrant workers in Beirut, this research reveals how direct participation in NGO-led, community programs and education empowers women to create counter-cultural communities and spaces for learning and activism. This research ultimately combines aspects of critical pedagogy, spatial analysis, and Third World feminisms to propose a critical subaltern praxis for research, development, and teaching.

Author

• Shireen Keyl, Utah State University
  Presenting Author