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Overview The Pathways through Participation project: introduction

Learn how and why people engage and sustain participation in various activities across different life stages. Findings emphasize the importance of context, relationships, and power in shaping participation. Discover a framework that broadens the understanding of participation, touching upon volunteering, community development, and more.

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Overview The Pathways through Participation project: introduction

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  1. Exploring participation: findings from a literature reviewEllie Brodie and Eddie CowlingVolunteering Counts 1st March 2010

  2. Overview • The Pathways through Participation project: introduction • The literature review: aims and key findings • Introducing the framework & its components • Using the framework & next steps

  3. Howandwhydo people get involvedand stay involved in different forms of participation over the course of their lives?

  4. Middle Years Later Years Formative Years

  5. Aims to increase • knowledge of, and • improve opportunities for, participation

  6. Research approach Literature review Activity mapping sessions In-depth interviewing Participatory workshops Selection of areas ANALYSIS ANALYSIS Local area profiling

  7. 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

  8. 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.

  9. Main findings...................

  10. People first

  11. 2. Context is all important

  12. 3. Relationships matter • between different participatory activities • between life experiences and activities • between people • between people and the state

  13. 4. Power is pertinent

  14. Exploring the components of the framework... • Activities • Places • Life stage • Multiple dimensions • Shaping forces

  15. Activity: Public Participation

  16. Activity: Campaigning, advocacy & direct action

  17. Activity: Service to others & environment

  18. Activity: Mutual aid/self-help

  19. Activity: Fundraising & giving

  20. Activity: Ethical consumerism

  21. Activity: Serious leisure

  22. Places of participation

  23. Multiple dimensions Local <> Global Occasional <> Regular Paid<>unpaid Individual<>collective Instrumental <> Transformative Self-interest<>altruism Online <> Offline Active <> Passive Member <> Organiser Proactive <> Reactive

  24. Life stages • Childhood • Youth • Early adulthood • Late adulthood • Old age

  25. Shaping forces • Power • Relationships • Inequality/equality • Access

  26. What’s next? Local mapping sessions

  27. What’s next? In-depth interviews & timeline construction

  28. To find out more:www.pathwaysthroughparticipation.org.uk eddie@involve.org.uk ellie.brodie@ncvo-vol.org.uk sarahmiller@volunteeringengland.org.uk

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