This paper documents the experience of the NGO Christian Outreach, working in Cambodia on a programme of community development. The programme is focussed on awareness change and works with a number of participatory techniques to animate change.
This paper is on how adults may learn without outsiders setting the agenda. Influenced by Paolo Friere, it advocates that the process of learning in adult education is a continuous process of reflection and action. The paper illustrates that this idea of Friere is being applied by development agencies in their projects and programmes, even by Christian evangelists in learning more about the gospel. Reflection and action connotes participation and so the paper cites three examples of participation, one of which must be avoided.