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Community Development Journal Advance Access originally published online on May 22, 2008
Community Development Journal 2008 43(3):371-381; doi:10.1093/cdj/bsn013
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This article appears in the following Community Development Journal issue: Special Issue: Participatory Approaches in Community Development: Transitions and Transformations [View the issue table of contents]

Active learning for active citizenship: participatory approaches to evaluating a programme to promote citizen participation in England

Marjorie Mayo and Alison Rooke

Address for correspondence: Email: m.mayo{at}gold.ac.uk

This article begins by exploring the contested notions of participatory approaches to monitoring and evaluation, identifying some of the possible pitfalls, including the dangers of tokenism, if participatory evaluation means little more than the occasional use of particular techniques. The potential scope as well as the potential limitations of participative approaches are then explored through a case study of the UK programme to promote ‘Active Learning for Active Citizenship’. Valuing the potential benefits of participative approaches as well as the inherent limitations, the article concludes by identifying some of the parallels with experiences of participative evaluation in the global South.


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