PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988-2001 4 RRA training in a US masters programme: the director's view

Document begins: PLA Notes CD-ROM 1988­2001 4 RRA training in a US masters programme: the director's view Stephen Howard We have recently been trying to respond to the illiterate etc. and met with some success. Each requests of our students in Masters level team then returned to Athens where reports programmes to offer more practical skills or were written up and forwarded to the applied social science techniques as part of the communities. Interestingly, many of the curriculum. I have been staging in-class RRA reports were excellent but there was always training sessions for a couple of years, and the problem of getting away from excruciating then, last year, I had the idea that we should academic prose. use the University's region to take this course into the field - Ohio, the foothills of My idea here was to introduce an important Appalachia and one of the poorest regions of rural development research technique and to the United States. give students some experience in the field to place next to their academic course work here. I contacted a local social service agency about As much as I have read about RRA, there still possible sites for RRA training and through ...