Mathematics, psychosocial work and human rights: a unique partnership between technical consultants and community organizers in India

Bestpracticeinpsychosocialworkwithmarginalized populations emphasizes the importance of community participatory approaches. However, the majority of field reports on psychosocial support with marginalized children describe donor initiated projects in which the goal is community empowerment, ownership and control, rather than reports about collaboration with activist movements arising from the communities themselves. This paper addresses one recent example of the latter form of collaboration, in which activists of a social movement in Tamil Nadu, India requested brief, targeted, external psychosocial assistance, following the tsunami of December 2004. The focus of the assistance, at the community’s request, was to increase cognitive capacity among children and volunteer teachers in a community education program. Keywords: Dalit, psychosocial, teaching action research method (TAR method)

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Reference: 
Martha Bragin, Vrunda Prabhu, Bronislaw Czarnocha | 2007
In: Intervention: the international journal of mental health, psychosocial work and counselling in areas of armed conflict, ISSN 1571-8883 | 5 | 2 | 97-108
http://www.interventionjournal.com/sites/default/files/bragin.pdf