Professor Barbara Pamphilon AM PhD is the Director of the Centre for Sustainable Communities, Faculty of Education,  at the University of Canberra, Australia. She is developing a number of innovative research and adult learning methodologies that enable different knowledge perspectives to emerge and that are effective in groups where there is low literacy or where English in a second language. These include asset-based community development, appreciative inquiry,critical place- based pedagogy  and empowerment evaluation approaches. Her current research focuses on the learning and development of women farmers and their families in Papua New Guinea

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