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It explains participatory approaches as empowering and democratic, enabling teachers to clarify practice needs while preserving the integrity of their subject disciplines. 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These approaches have been used to enable teachers to establish their practice needs in relation to education for sustainability (EfS) and also maintain the integrity of their subject disciplines.  \nThe participatory methods are derived from various sources used in different contexts, but have the purpose of being empowering and democratic.  \nThe intention is to develop knowledge and action that is directly useful to the participating group through a process of collective self-enquiry, where reflection helps to focus on the learning process rather than the outcomes.  \nThe ways that these methods have been applied, their derivation from other fields of research, their strengths, as well as the problems encountered when applying them, are discussed.  \nRésumé  \nCet article décrit la recherche effectuée auprès d’enseignants à la faveur deméthodes participatives et de pratiques réflexives. Ces approches ont été adoptées afin que les enseignants puissent délimiter leurs besoins en ce quia trait aux pratiques employées dans l’éducation pour un avenir viable etaussi afin de leur permettre de préserver l’intégrité de leurs disciplines. Les méthodes participatives sont dérivées de plusieurs sources auxquelles on fait appel dans divers contextes. Toutefois, elles se veulent habilitantes etdémocratiques dans le but d’engendrer des connaissances et des actions qui sont directement utiles au groupe participant, grâce à un processus collectif de questionnement personnel au cours duquel la réflexion permet de se concentrer sur le processus d’apprentissage plutôt que sur les résultats. Les diverses formes d’application de ces méthodes, leur dérivation d’autres domaines de recherche, leurs forces, ainsi que les problèmes rencontrés au moment de leur application sont abordés dans cet article.  \nThe application of research methods used in very different contexts to environmental education and education for sustainability (EfS) can provide exciting new avenues for progress in our field. This article is concerned with participatory methods combined with reflective practice among teachers in schools. The discussion will focus on processes and issues of methodology, rather than giving a report on the substantive content of any particular study. There will be brief discussion of the authoritative sources from which  \nCanadian Journal of Environmental Education, 8, Spring 2003 129  \nthe methodology has been derived, the advantages of its use and ways in which it can be applied to education for sustainability with teachers or teachers on pre-service courses. This will include potential problems that need to be addressed; some of this will be illustrated with brief examples from the author’s previous research. It should be appreciated that participatory approaches lend themselves particularly well to extension into various types of action research; however, these will not be considered specifically in this article. The purpose of this article is to make the case for the use of a particular type of methodology; not simply as an alternative to different approaches to research, but in order to achieve quite different ends.  \nThe approaches described and discussed in this paper are derived principally from the work of Reason and others and relates to the nature of change and the relationship of research and practice (see below) . At the outset readers should appreciate that participatory methods of research and development are not presented here as unproblematic. It is difficult to write about them without them becoming de-contextualized and therefore turned into something studied academically from the outside. In an attempt to get to the essence of this difference they have been described as","cbCaihxqzka6sqvG","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihxqzka6sqvG","pdf",144763,14,"English","# Overview\n## Purpose and approach\n# Methodological focus\n## Empowerment, democracy, and self-enquiry\n## Strengths and challenges\n# Derivation and application\n## Links to other research fields\n## Implementation with teachers and pre-service courses\n# Research-practice relationship\n## Co-researcher roles and change\n## Limitations and need for more formal definitions","[{\"question\":\"What is the main goal of combining participatory methods with reflective practice in this article?\",\"answer\":\"To help teachers develop knowledge and action directly useful to their group through collective self-enquiry, where reflection concentrates on the learning process rather than only outcomes.\"},{\"question\":\"How do the participatory methods described differ from more orthodox research?\",\"answer\":\"Traditional methods often exclude participants from shaping the research subject matter and set the agenda for the study, while participatory approaches aim to involve teachers more as co-researchers who can make choices.\"},{\"question\":\"What kinds of issues and limitations does the article discuss when applying participatory methodologies?\",\"answer\":\"It highlights challenges such as difficulties keeping the approaches from becoming de-contextualized and studied only from outside, as well as methodological problems that arise during application and the lack of exhaustive coverage of each participatory method type.\"}]","Participatory Methods and Reflective Practice Applied to Research in Education for Sustainability | PDF",1792084981,35]