Development As Conscientization : The Case of Nijera Kori in Bangladesh/Abul
Barkat, Sadeka Halim, Avijit Poddar, Asmar Osman and Md. Badiuzzaman. Dhaka,
Pathak Shamabesh Book, 2008, 460 p., 193 figs., 6 maps, tables,
ISBN 984-70212-0005-4.
Development As Conscientization : The Case of Nijera Kori in Bangladesh/Abul
Barkat, Sadeka Halim, Avijit Poddar, Asmar Osman and Md. Badiuzzaman. Dhaka,
Pathak Shamabesh Book, 2008, 460 p., 193 figs., 6 maps, tables,
ISBN 984-70212-0005-4.
Contents: List of illustrations. Authors. Abbreviations. Foreword. Acknowledgement. 1. Development as conscientization. 2. Nijera Kori as laboratory to understand process of conscientization. 3. Methodology. 4. Profile: participants. 5. Profile: villages. 6. Conscientization: who thinks what. 7. Conscientization about rights. 8. Conscientization about fundamentalism. 9. Conscientization about worldview. 10. Women empowerment: mobility and violence against women. 11. Access status: who gets what. 12. Well-being status. 13. Key learning. Annexures: i. Survey-based data tables. ii. Data collection instrument. Glossary. References. Index.
"This book challenges the conventional wisdom of narrowly-defined development which concentrates primarily and decisively on the 'invisible hand' of economic development per-se--a market-based money-metric approach. This book also shows the limitations of the relatively broadly-defined views on human development due to its "not-class" considerations. To the contrary, this book proposes a framework for understanding true development --development as rights -- both Constitutional and Justifiable, a conclusion of the excluded (non adverse inclusion), and as a freedom and liberty mediated process. This book not only forwards the argument that sustained development is a conscientization - mediated process, but also attempts to empirically measure "development as conscientization". Conscientization has been seen as a process by which the learner advances towards critical consciousness which is necessary for informed actions - the key goal of development education. The newness of both the arguments and measurements lies in the fact that the whole exercise has been conducted in a participatory way with the poor and marginalized people implying a deviation from the conventional researchers - defined approach. This book, based on the experience of an NGO-Nijera Kori's conscientization work, documents an attempt to provide empirical evidences of impact of conscientization." (jacket)