John Gaventa

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John Gaventa wiki is a former Director of the Highlander Folk School in Tennessee. [1]

He began to help lead a grass-roots adult educational program at the Highlander Research and Education Center in New Market, Tennessee in 1976, and was director from 1993 until 1996. He received a MacArthur Award in 1981 for his work with the Highlander Center.

Gaventa is Director of the Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, a professor and member of the Power, Participation and Social Change Team at the Institute of Development Studies. [2]

"He has written widely on issues of power, participatory development and governance, civil society and social change. Before coming to IDS in 1996, John was the co-director of research and Director of the Highlander Centre, an NGO with over seven decades of experience in working on poverty and social justice issues in poor regions of the United States. John also serves as Chair of Oxfam Great Britain." [3]

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  1. Who we are, Just Associates, accessed April 3, 2008.
  2. John Gaventa, Development Research Centre on Citizenship, Participation and Accountability, accessed April 3, 2008.
  3. John Gaventa, Institute of Development Studies, accessed August 31, 2008.