Applying Participatory Action Research (PAR) and Project Based Approach (PBA) to Realize Millennium Development Goals (Case Study: Moshtagh Child-friendly Educational Center, Kerman, Iran)

According to Millennium Development Goals some serious actions should have been taken before 5102, aimed to reduce poverty, starvation, maladies, women and infants’ mortality rate, illiteracy, and also to maintain public access to salubrious drinking water. Attempt to eradicate illiteracy, above all, might be considered as the most assuring mean to reach these goals. Holding a same position, people at Moshtagh Child-friendly Educational Center have focused their attempts to reach for most adequate means and manners for educating alliterated youngsters. This paper demonstrates the results of two research projects, titled Supermarket and Human body , applying participatory action methods in a project based framework. Engaging 52 participants (boys of 01-02 years old), teachers in both studies, as facilitators, only maintained an eased access for children to the sources of knowledge. Project based approach included three different stages, namely choosing the subject , operating the project and documentation of the results . Adopting this approach, participants have been able to utilize any equipment placed in the center and the surrounding space; moreover, the teachers tended to embody different fields of knowledge (Literature, Math & …) in the frameworks of a single project.

Keywords:

Moshtagh Child-friendly Center , Participatory action Research , Project Based Approach , Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)