Adult Education: Participatory Evaluation

New trends in social science research indicate a major departure in the assess­ment of the role of the researcher or the investigator. The traditional role of the researcher as a detached and ‘neutral’ analyst, while it proved suitable to a cer­tain extent to describe the world as it exists, hardly equipped him to work for changing it. It is through participation in the sense of intervention that the researcher may learn the process through which a change is brought about.