Participatory Work Research Articles

Community Organizing for Neighborhood Transformation: Facing Evolving Challenges

The Integral Neighborhood Transformation Workshops (TTIBs, Spanish acronym) are community organizations that use a comprehensive and participatory work approach, involving government, social institutions, and the population in the transformations each community needs. These innovative forms of community involvement in today's revolutionary Cuba deserve greater visibility. They have received renewed attention as the government revitalizes initiatives to transform vulnerable communities, especially after the protests on July 11, 2021. Their origins, social significance, main functions, forms in which they structure themselves, outstanding challenges in the way to their sustained success, and main results require a close examination.

Humanizing Co-design through attention to educators’ affective and relational experiences

ABSTRACT Background Co-design can be challenging and rewarding as educators explore new roles and ideas. Accounts of co-design rarely examine educators’ affective and relational experiences, nor investigate scaffolds for creating humanizing environments. We asked: How did affect and relationship show up in co-design for educators?, How did the affirmation of affect and relationship in the co-design process support the movement of ideas and practices across scales of practice?, How did the movement of ideas and practices facilitate the expansion of the object (to design a compassion course)? Methods We analyzed meeting transcripts, field notes, artifacts, interviews, and reflections from a co-design project where educators and researchers developed a course sequence on compassion and dignity in schools. Findings Educators discussed affective experiences, including those connected to challenging interactions. Discussing obstacles to compassion contributed to strengthening the co-design community and educators’ positive experience of co-design. Attention to affective experiences supported educators to connect compassion to their lives, invited learning across scales of practice, and expanded their vision for shared work. Contribution Attention to affective and relational aspects of co-design strengthens engagement in the co-design process, inviting more equitable participation and creating humanizing design environments, and thus should be a central component of participatory work.

Populismo constituyente, democracia y promesas incumplidas: el caso de la Convención Constitucional Chilena (2021-2022)Constituent populism, democracy, and failed promises: The case of the Chilean Constitutional Convention (2021-2022)

Abstract Mechanisms of popular participation, such as constitutional conventions and citizen assemblies, emerge as a near-universal canon of every political discussion on how constitutions should change. This article offers a cautionary approach to the way these participatory mechanisms work in constitution-making. In democratic contexts including populist narratives and representative institutions functioning in flawed ways, constitution-making can fail not simply despite the existence of participatory mechanisms but in part because of them. We identify two types of failures. First, the authoritarian failure, which consists of constitution-making processes that lead to authoritarian outcomes or become part of democratic backsliding or abusive processes. Second, the activation failure, by which constitutions are not passed. We claim that this later failure can likely occur when reforms attempt to bypass established, functioning institutional actors, whatever their flaws, and use a comparative approach to the Chilean Constitutional Convention (2021-2022) as an example.

The Influence of Participatory Leader Behaviour, Achievement Orientation and Work Motivation on Teacher Job Satisfaction in Madrasah

This study explores the factors influencing teacher job satisfaction in Madrasah Tsanawiyah Negeri (MTsN) in Riau Islands Province. The study focused on participatory leader behaviour, achievement orientation, and work motivation as the main variables affecting teacher job satisfaction. The research method used is quantitative with a statistical analysis approach to test the hypothesis that has been set. Three schools with the same accreditation status (A) in the western, central, and eastern research areas were selected as samples through area sampling techniques. The total sampling technique was used to take 136 teachers from these schools. The results showed that participatory leader behaviour and achievement orientation significantly influenced teacher job satisfaction directly or indirectly through work motivation. The pathway analysis confirmed that participatory leader behaviour, achievement orientation, and work motivation significantly affected teacher job satisfaction in MTsN in Riau Islands Province. The implication is to develop effective and holistic management strategies to improve the welfare of educational organizations.

Pengaruh Kepemimpinan Partisipatif dan Disiplin Kerja terhadap Motivasi Kerja yang Dimediasi oleh Kepuasan Kerja pada Badan Perencanaan Pembangunan Daerah Kabupaten Sleman

The achievement of successful regional development managed by the Local Government through the Regional Planning and Development Agency (Bappeda) cannot be separated from professional human resources. They play a very important role in the processes and activities of the Regional Apparatus. Human resources will design, install, operate, and maintain an integral system of the organization. This study aims to determine the influence of participatory leadership and work discipline on work motivation mediated by job satisfaction at the Regional Planning and Development Agency of Sleman Regency. The survey was conducted through the distribution of questionnaires to all civil servants at the Regional Planning and Development Agency of Sleman Regency, a total of 51 respondents. The sampling method used was saturated sampling or census. The data were analyzed using SEM-PLS analysis. The results of the study found that participatory leadership did not have a positive and significant effect on the work motivation of civil servants of the Sleman Regency Bappeda. Work discipline had a positive but insignificant effect on the work motivation of civil servants of the Sleman Regency Bappeda. Job satisfaction did not mediate the influence between participatory leadership and work motivation, and job satisfaction successfully mediated the influence between work discipline and work motivation.

Moving Beyond Resistance and Readiness: Reframing Change Reactions as Change Related Subject Positioning

ABSTRACT In this paper, line managers’ experiences of, and discursive subject positioning in, a participatory work environment initiative in four nursing homes called ‘The Health Circle Project’ is examined. We focus on line managers’ change related subject positioning by interviewing the managers of the four workplaces before and after the initiative and conduct a comparative case study from a discursive psychology frame. The aim of this paper is to focus on change reactions from managers and move beyond a reductionistic dichotomy of change resistance/readiness. Instead, we focus our analysis on the change related subject positioning the managers engage in, and how they position both themselves and their subordinates. Hence, we examine how the line managers experienced the participatory Health Circle intervention, and how they reacted to potential loss of power to discursively construct and define work environment problems caused by the initiative. The study exemplifies how the line managers experienced the Health Circle intervention as both confirming and challenging their subject positions as capable managerial subjects. Finally, in the light of the analysis, the potential unintended consequences of engaging in participatory work environment intiatives and similar activities are discussed. MAD statement Resistance to change is one of the most frequently used explanations for why change processes fail. The current study presents a more nuanced theoretical concept, change-related subject positioning and explores how increasing employee participation, can elicit unintended reactions from managers. This study hence contributes to our understanding of how a, in principle, positive change process of empowering employees to improve working conditions leads to a multitude of change related subject positioning from managers. Some managers embrace the change and position themselves in line with the employee participants. Others feel threatened which in extreme cases leads to negative positioning of their subordinates.

Participatory Leadership Behavior, Achievement Orientation, and Work Motivation Have a Significant Effect on Teacher


 
 
 
 This research aims to reveal the influence of participatory leadership behavior, performance orientation on job satisfaction mediated by work motivation. In order to the target of the buyer, the quantitative research method used to design a route analysis with a sample of 106 respondents originating from MTSN 1 Batam, MtsN 2 Natuna, Tanjung Pinang in Riau Islands Province. The data collection method used is an angket that is subsequently in the process of statistical analysis.
 The results of this study show that Participatory Leadership Behavior, Performance Orientation has a direct and simultaneous effect on job satisfaction. Participatory leadership behavior and performance orientation have a direct influence on job motivation. More than 50% of participatory leaders' behavior directly affects Job satisfaction through Job Motivation. The novelty in study was the role of participatory leadership behavior found to have a greater influence on job satisfaction than previous research.
 
 
 

The Effect of Participatory Leadership Style and Work Motivation on Employee Performance through Job Satisfaction at the Malang City District Office

This study has at least four aims to carry out. Such as describing participatory leadership style, work motivation, employee job satisfaction, and employee performance. Also, analyze the effect of participatory leadership style and work motivation on employee job satisfaction. Examine the effect of participatory leadership style and work motivation on employee performance and analyze the effect of employee job satisfaction on employee performance at the sub-district office in Malang City. The population in this study were Civil Servants at the Malang City District Office, amounting to 114 employees. The sample was taken using the slovin formula because the respondents were more than 100 employees, so 88 employees became the object of the research. The data analysis technique used is path analysis. The results show that participatory leadership style and work motivation affect employee job satisfaction. Participative leadership style and work motivation affect employee performance. Also, employee job satisfaction affects employee performance. Participatory leadership style and work motivation affect employee performance through employee job satisfaction.

PENDAMPINGAN PENGUATAN LITERASI DASAR (MEMBACA, MENULIS, DAN BERHITUNG DI SDN 2 DUMAN

International and national survey results categorize Indonesia as low in literacy skills. In order to improve literacy skills in schools, Kemdikbud launched the School Literacy Movement (GLS). To realize this goal, the Participatory Work Lecture (KKP) group of UIN Mataram were located in Duman Village, West Lombok implemented a basic literacy strengthening work program at SDN 2 Duman. The method used is participatory action research (PAR) which consists of problem identification, focus group discussion, implementation and evaluation. After the activities were carried out, the results obtained were an increase in students' basic literacy as shown by the ability to read, write and count for students who previously could not read, write and count. In addition, there was an increase in students' interest and motivation in reading, writing and counting. This activity also received a good response from students, teachers and the community with a satisfaction level percentage of 92.5%. Keywords: literacy, reading, writing, numeracy

Climate Garden 2085: An easily applicable transdisciplinary public art-science experiment for transformative learning about climate change

AbstractClimate change education is inherently part of Education for Sustainable Development which has manifold aims to develop transformative learning from primary to tertiary pupils. Climate change is challenging as a school subject, as although it can improve pupils’ knowledge, it is less evident how such knowledge translates into decreasing the value-action gap. Climate change also transverses disciplinary boundaries and teachers struggle to incorporate it into the curriculum. We present a transdisciplinary art-science public experiment—theClimate Garden 2085, as a methodology which has proved a popular tool for schools to engage their pupils with climate change and sustainability. TheClimate Garden 2085is a participatory art-science work that engages school pupils as social groups, and in emotional ways with scientific questions related to the effects of climate change on plant species that are important for food production and gardening. Greenhouses simulating different climate change scenarios engage pupils in a tangible way with climate change effects on plants while accompanying plant science and art workshops allow them to carry out hands on experiments. The garden art-science intervention has so far been created 24 times, with more than 100 workshops, and reached around 40,000 people. It continues to attract major interest by teachers and schools. Based on qualitative observation and some quantitative data, we discuss possible reasons for the attractiveness of the methodology for schools and explore how it might affect awareness and behavioral changes of participants. We propose that the poetic nature of a garden and the length of engagement that the garden affords, combined with the embodied experience and time and place for discussions, has great potential for enabling reflection and action toward climate friendly and sustainable urban futures. We present the project here in order to encourage others to create their ownClimate Garden.

El intraemprendimiento como alternativa de innovación y su impacto en la calidad de las empresas. Caso de estudio: Grupo CER (Consejo Empresarial Restaurantero) Los Mochis, Sinaloa

The globalized market forces organizations to be in constant innovation and to implement strategies that allow them to adapt to new environments without losing the quality of their products or services that they offer. In this sense, intrapreneurship is a practice that is gaining strength in the business world as an innovation strategy within organizations, generating participatory work environments and favorable environments for the generation of new ideas, contributing to the assurance of their quality. The present work is a quantitative study that seeks to analyze the phenomenon of intrapreneurship as an innovation alternative and its impact on the quality of the companies that are part of the Restaurant Business Council (CER), which operates in the city of Los Mochis, Sinaloa. For this case study, the survey was used as a data collection instrument, to a sample of 51 companies of the study group and a linear regression model was applied, analyzing the relationship between the variables of intrapreneurship, innovation, and quality, calculated using the IBM SPSS Statistics 26.0 program. After processing the data and analyzing the results, it is inferred that intrapreneurship represents, within the study group, an innovation alternative that is frequently practiced and that by propitiating environments that promote the participation and empowerment of employees, it is possible to achieve a significant increase in the quality of the organization's processes, as well as its products and services.

How does participatory research work: protocol for a realist synthesis

IntroductionParticipatory research science deals with partnerships underlying research, governance and ownership of research products. It is concerned with relationships behind research objectives and methods. Participatory research has gained significant traction...

Disempowerment versus empowerment: Analyzing power dynamics in professional community development

ABSTRACT Using a dimensions of power framework that integrates the theoretical work of Gaventa, Giddens, and Young, this paper unpacks the meanings of self-efficacy, solidarity, and agency in relation to different forms of power. These definitions: (1) reaffirm radical understandings of empowerment as an internal process for both individuals and groups, as well as a function of enabling institutional and societal structures, and (2) enable critical examination of the role of community development professionals in the pursuit of empowerment at these various levels of analysis. We begin with a critique of imposed, deficit-oriented approaches to community development and examine how mainstream practices have shifted intentions toward asset-oriented, participatory work within communities served, but even in the best circumstances fail to address underlying systemic barriers to empowerment and community well-being. Based on this analysis, we consider how these findings call for transformation of the role of professional community developers.

Book Reviews

The Future of Digital Data, Heritage and Curation in a More-than-Human World Fiona R. Cameron. Abingdon: Routledge, 2021. What Photographs Do: The Making and Remaking of Museum Cultures Elizabeth Edwards and Ella Ravilious, eds. London: UCL Press, 2022. The Aftermaths of Participation: Outcomes and Consequences of Participatory Work with Forced Migrants in Museums. Susanne Boersma. Bielefeld: Transcript Verlag, 2023. Museum Times: Changing Histories in South Africa Leslie Witz. New York: Berghahn Books, 2022. Ancestors, Artefacts, Empire: Indigenous Australia in British and Irish Museums Gaye Sculthorpe, Maria Nugent, and Howard Morphy, eds. London and Canberra: The British Museum Press and the National Museum of Australia, 2021. The Routledge Companion to Indigenous Art Histories in the United States and Canada Heather Igloliorte and Carla Taunton, eds. New York: Routledge, 2022. Becoming Our Future: Global Indigenous Curatorial Practice Julie Nagam, Megan Tamati-Quennell, and Carly Lane, eds. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2020. History Making a Difference: New Approaches from Aotearoa Katie Pickles, Lyndon Fraser, Marguerite Hill, Sarah Murray, and Greg Ryan, eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2017.

Unearthing Techniques Lecturers Apply to Reflect on Their Teaching Process in Selected Universities in Lusaka and Copperbelt Provinces of Zambia

This article explores techniques lecturers apply to reflect on their teaching process in selected universities in Lusaka and Copperbelt Provinces of Zambia. The study was qualitative underpinned with social constructivism worldview. The case study design was used. In this study, data was generated from 32 participants who were purposively selected and were subjected to one-on-one interviews and focus group discussions. The generated data was analyzed using thematic approach. The study revealed that public health lecturers reflect on their teaching process using academic assessment of students, peer reflective teaching, through participatory approaches, getting feedback from the learners, participatory work in the laboratory and action research. The study concluded that although lecturers reflected in and on their teaching, the style of reflection has not been enhanced to the level of them being critical and innovative reflective practitioners. Based on the findings, the study recommends that Education standards officers should continue to maintain standards in Universities and Colleges to control over enrolments and overcrowding in classes so that the lecturers can teach efficiently and effectively so that students can benefit fully from the lecturers.

Examining Community Engagement Research Strategies Used in Flint, Michigan: The Church Challenge.

The ways in which researchers may need to adapt traditional community-based participatory research engagement strategies during ongoing community trauma are understudied. We describe our efforts to engage the Flint, Michigan community in community-based participatory research in the aftermath of the Flint Water Crisis. This manuscript describes 1) recruitment strategies selected before the Flint Water Crisis, 2) engagement lessons learned in the context of the Flint Water Crisis, and 3) barriers and facilitators encountered while engaging African American churches. Researchers collaborated with community partners to engage and recruit a traumatized Flint community into the Church Challenge, a multilevel intervention to reduce chronic disease burden. Recruitment and engagement strategies must be flexible, innovative, and may require nontraditional methods. Flexibility and adaptability are crucial for engaging with a traumatized community. Community-based participatory research work in traumatized communities must acknowledge and respond to community trauma to be successful.

Reading Rest as Resistance

What can we learn from articulations of rest as resistance emerging from the Global South? By deliberately constructing and staging practices of rest, how do artists extract and distinguish it from the domain of the mundane and the everyday. This article considers the work of three artists/collectives in India who advocate radical conceptions of rest and leisure: dancer and pedagogue Navtej Singh Johar and his articulation of sukh (rest/contentment), dancer and choreographer Shabari Rao’s Still Standing series, a participatory work that explores stillness as an embodied experience, and visual artist’s Priyanka D'Souza's work under the artist duo, Resting Museum, with Shreyasi Pathak on rest, illness and disability. The article situates these conceptual and performative iterations of rest within overlapping social, cultural and economic contexts. Johar and Rao both have backgrounds in Indian classical dance, which emphasizes the cultivation of a virtuosic aesthetic through repetition. They also respond to the urban contexts they work in, where the body is increasingly co-opted into mechanized and techno-surveilled forms of homogeneity. D’Souza draws attention to the ableist connotations of productivity in her work, drawing on her own experience of disability. What affective resonance does productivity as stability, as mundane certainty, hold for postcolonial contexts? I place the work of these three artists against the frame of India as an emerging economy, whose narrative is that of a country in progress, work-ing towards an eventual future as an ‘advanced economy’. In this narrative, the ‘mundane’ takes on an aspirational quality. What does it take to fragment the relationship between rest and productivity in this context, where rest is not merely a reward for action and progress, but an independent way of being and doing in its own right?

Variation of local zoological knowledge about Southern river otter and other semi-aquatic mammals in Nahuel Huapi National Park (Argentina)

BackgroundThe huillín (Lontra provocax, Thomas 1908) is an otter, endemic to southern Argentina and Chile. It is in danger of extinction. In the Nahuel Huapi National Park and surroundings is the only freshwater, known and stable population of huillín in Argentina. In this park, several urban and rural centers coexist with this species. The main objective of our work was to answer: How does the local zoological knowledge (LZK) vary about the huillín, particularly its identification and sighting, among people from different social groups, with different ages and gender, who live in the rural or urban environment and with different periods of permanence in the place?MethodsNinety-six written interviews were conducted using visual stimuli to ensure that interviewees refer to the huillín. In addition, we also inquire about the LZK of other species with which it can be confused. Additional open interviews were conducted with participants who observed the huillín to determine the georeferencing of the reported sites and include them on a final map.Results95% of people identified the huillín and this was confused with the coipo in 3% and with the american mink, in 5%. The results show that, in general, the LZK did not vary significantly with the sociocultural characteristics of the participants, showing a remarkable homogeneity. However, people in rural areas are more likely to observe the species than people in urban areas. Moreover, people between 20 and 40 years of age are more likely to observe the huillín. The LZK mapping has identified areas that are consistent with and/or adjacent to official source records. Other areas have also been identified that may provide new information.ConclusionWith this participatory work, we realize that the species is recognized by urban and rural inhabitants and very few confused it. The homogeneity in the LZK found constitutes a kick for the realization of other participatory studies that promote lines of research, action and management that improve the quality of the environments where the only freshwater, known and stable population of the huillín in Argentina lives.

A montage of small movements

In 2016, I was invited by musician/composer B6 to devise a participatory work for the recently opened art space Reformer art in Hunan Lu, Shanghai. I had been intrigued by a question posed by human geographer Nigel Thrift: What happens if we look on kindness as a technology rather than an emotion; a way of producing generosity in the body, a positive affective swirl? If we produce maps of spaces in new sensory registers like geographies of kindness, might these “geographies. then leak out into the wider world?”...1 An observation by Mark Twain on the dynamics of rivers, guided my approach to distinguish three motions while exploring kindness in the built environment: turbulences (random acts of kindness), ripples (the effect on us when watching and relating such acts), and finally currents (reassuring myself and my companions that acts of kindness are part of a human undercurrent). With generous technical support from the team, I was able to install a large, circular map that covered a 20-min walking radius of the neighborhood. A projection of wandering ripples programmed to light up the locations where my walking companions had identified an act of kindness slowly changed the focus and purpose of the map toward emphasizing ephemeral moments, moments that energize our affective landscape. As signs of ongoing processes, these moments were not part of determinant systems; instead, they were undeclared yet consequential actions. During Chinese New Year 2017, I revisited the locations that had hosted acts of kindness back in November 2016 and from these reflections – A reading with my feet – The following transcript for a meditative film essay on movement and how it agitates the air; on environments and the incipient; on kindness as technology and kindness as an emotion, emerged. See https://vimeo.com/215920711.

PERAN KOMUNITAS BASIS GEREJAWI BAGI EFEKTIVITAS PELAKSANAAN KARYA PASTORAL PARTISIPATIF DAN KONTEKSTUAL

The development of the Church as an organism demands active participation and cooperation between clergy and laity. The purpose of this article is to introduce Basic Ecclesiastical Community (KBG) as a model of church life which is a place for the involvement of the laity in collaboration with the clergy. This article was written using qualitative research methods with a focus on literature studies in the form of books and scientific journal articles according to the themes reviewed. The results of the literature study in this article confirm several important things. First, the model of church life through KBG empowerment can minimize the tendency of clerical feudalism. Pastoral officers (clergy) must act as facilitators, not rulers who authoritatively regulate church life. Second, KBG makes the implementation of participatory and contextual pastoral works effective. Participatory pastoral work means involving as many people as possible in planning, implementing, and evaluating pastoral activities, while contextual pastoral work means pastoral work that departs from a particular context and must respond to the context. Third, the spirit of a shepherd's life smelling of sheep plays an important role for the realization of participatory and contextual pastoral work.