Community-based participatory research: a case study from South Africa
Mélani PrinslooLulea University of Technology
INTRODUCTION TO COMMUNITY-BASED PROJECTS
The engagement of community members in projects designed to benefit that community is by no means a new phenomenon. Two of the great pioneers of and believers in this approach were Gandhi and Freire. Gandhi believed that community-based projects make sense and also provide an antidote to the corrosive effects of modernisation, helping people to 'design' their own lives (cited in Mansuri & Rao 2004). Similarly, in Freire's Pedagogy of the Oppressed,he argues that the 'oppressed' need...