The community workshop is a core method of my research with the Horto d’El Rey, which is part of the overall methodology of community-based participatory research. This post will cover the nature of meetings, facilitation, and various techniques to engage participants in community workshops. While not easy, facilitating community...
Main Street Approach
Object versus subject centered heritage and the Main Street Program
Several years ago, I read John Schofield’s (2009) description of “allocentric” versus “autocentric” heritage. He associates allocentric heritage with objective, scientific, fixed, and detached meanings and autocentric heritage with subjective, emotional, and changing meanings. The former is associated with orthodox conservation theory and practice and the latter with heterodox...