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Exploring participation: findings from a literature review Ellie Brodie and Eddie Cowling Volunteering Counts 1 st March 2010. Overview The Pathways through Participation project: introduction The literature review: aims and key findings Introducing the framework & its components
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Exploring participation: findings from a literature reviewEllie Brodie and Eddie CowlingVolunteering Counts 1st March 2010
Overview • The Pathways through Participation project: introduction • The literature review: aims and key findings • Introducing the framework & its components • Using the framework & next steps
Howandwhydo people get involvedand stay involved in different forms of participation over the course of their lives?
Middle Years Later Years Formative Years
Aims to increase • knowledge of, and • improve opportunities for, participation
Research approach Literature review Activity mapping sessions In-depth interviewing Participatory workshops Selection of areas ANALYSIS ANALYSIS Local area profiling
Aims of the review… Bring together different bodies of literature about participation to develop a broad, ‘round-earth view’ of participation • Volunteering • Community development • Public participation • Social movements • Everyday politics • Ethical consumption
The review was to also help us develop a ‘framework of participation’ that could help to inform and shape (and be shaped by) the project’s subsequent fieldwork.
3. Relationships matter • between different participatory activities • between life experiences and activities • between people • between people and the state
Exploring the components of the framework... • Activities • Places • Life stage • Multiple dimensions • Shaping forces
Multiple dimensions Local <> Global Occasional <> Regular Paid<>unpaid Individual<>collective Instrumental <> Transformative Self-interest<>altruism Online <> Offline Active <> Passive Member <> Organiser Proactive <> Reactive
Life stages • Childhood • Youth • Early adulthood • Late adulthood • Old age
Shaping forces • Power • Relationships • Inequality/equality • Access
What’s next? Local mapping sessions
What’s next? In-depth interviews & timeline construction
To find out more:www.pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk eddie@involve.org.uk ellie.brodie@ncvo-vol.org.uk sarahmiller@volunteeringengland.org.uk