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Prof. R.R. Singh, Former Director, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Prof. B.Deviprasad, Dept of Social Work, Andhra Univerity, Visakhapatnam at a seminar on teaching citizenship held for DRC researchers at PRIA, India in January 2008

Teaching and learning citizenship

Researchers from the Citizenship DRC are exploring new ways to use findings for teaching and learning with their students.

 

Two new publications on citizen engagement

The Institute of Development Studies launched two new publications on democratising citizen engagement at an event held jointly with Demos in London on April 29th 2008.

 

New resource pack highlights role of champions of participation in local governance

An international project to share learning among Champions of Participation in local government across 15 countries has culminated in the release of a resource pack.

Reflection on using Participatory Video in research

 

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News on participatory video and more films

 

 

 

 

 

Latest Publications

Democratising Engagement: What the UK can learn from international experience by Andrea Cornwall, Demos, IDS, 2008   Constructing Transnational Action Research Networks: Observations and Reflections from the Case of the Citizenship DRC L. David Brown and John Gaventa (2008) IDS Working Paper 302   Deliberating Democracy: Scenes from a Brazilian Municipal Health Council by Andrea Cornwall (2008) IDS Working Paper 292   Making and Unmaking the Young Shotta [Shooter]: Boundaries and (Counter)-Actions in the 'Garrisons' by Joy Moncrieffe (2008) IDS Working Paper 297   The backstage of civil society: protagonisms, networks and affinities between civil organisations in Sao Paolo by Adrian Gurza Lavalle, Graziela Castello and Renata Mirandola Bichir (2008) IDS Working Paper 299   Citizenship DRC Annual Report 2006 - 2007   Champions of Participation: Engaging Citizens in Local Governance by the Citizenship DRC and Logolink (2008)   Creating spaces for engagement: understanding research and social change by Joanna Wheeler (2007) DRC working paper   Participation and national policy case studies by the Particiation, power and socal change team at IDS and the Ford Foundation (2007)   Participatory governance? Citizens and the state in South Africa edited by Lisa Thompson (2007)   ID21 Insights on Claiming Citizenship edited by Alison Dunn and John Gaventa (2007)   Somewhere over the rainbow? The politics and dilemmas of researching citizenship and marginality by Lyla Mehta (2007) IDS Working Paper 288   Violence, power and participation: building citizenship in contexts of chronic violence by Jenny  Pearce (2007) IDS Working Paper 274   Associations and the Exercise of Citizenship in New Democracies Evidence from São Paulo and Mexico City by Peter P. Houtzager, Arnab Acharya and Adrián Gurza Lavalle (2007) IDS Working paper 285   Spaces for Change? The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas by Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan Coelho (eds), London: Zed Books

Resources on Participatory Video compiled by the Participation, Power and Social Change team at the Institute for Development Studies