Praxis intervention
This contrasts with other forms of participatory action research, which emphasize the collective modification of the external world.
Mihailo Marković expanded on the concept of praxis, identifying key elements such as creativity, autonomy, sociality, rationality, and intentionality.
These moments of praxis offer alternatives to sameness, subordination, massification, blind reaction, and compliance.
[4] Praxis intervention makes research, creative expression or technology development into a bottom-up process.
The praxis intervention method aims at provoking members to unsettle their settled mindsets and to have a fresh look at the world around and intervene.
A gradual process by which members are helped to reflexively recognize the arbitrary and discriminating mindsets within themselves and the world around and working towards correcting it is praxis intervention.
Questionnaire based surveys, formal interviews, and even focus group discussions are not useful to help respondents to come out with genuine answers to the questions posed at them.
[citation needed] Praxis intervention as it helps groups of people probing their own conditions phase by phase through prolonged discussions, experiments and conscious explorations is capable of coming out with better quality data that could be useful for the group to challenge existing epistemic structures and work out their own well-being.
[9] Through the practice of participant objectivation, Bourdieu aims to make the critical and political activity of social research the "solvent of doxa".
[10] The praxis intervention method problematizes the bias of the researcher and her clientele emerging from their social origins, class, gender coordinates; their position in the intellectual field and in their respective social space; and also their "intellectual bias," the results of viewing the world as a spectacle.
In the community work situation it could be a project helping the community participants to undertake a systematic research on themselves in the areas such as history of their social relationships, land ownership patterns, critically exploring gender relations, studying the ecological changes happening in their habitat, learning historically and comparatively on their health status, nutrition status etc.
Students going under the process of praxis intervention would listen to the expert opinions and explanations of the phenomenon under discussion and they would carry out experiments in the laboratory or in appropriate practical field relevant to the phenomenon under focus individually, collectively and collaboratively as they are guided by the expert teachers.
This may help students to gain great quantity of quality knowledge within short periods of time.
Similarly, praxis intervention can be used in helping patients to undergo a participatory diagnostic and experience sharing research with the medical professionals and other experts on their health conditions and take necessary action.
Patients with similar diseases, their family members, and their significant others, medical practitioners and relevant experts can sit together and be guided, as a group, through informed dialogue, systematic corrective measures, and experience sharing.
A social work education based on praxis model could shape the students and teachers self-reflexive, sensible.
The model provides opportunity for the social worker to undertake a reflexive inward journey to get rid of biases that affect her practice.
Similarly the praxis method could be used in the planning process provided sufficient flexibility is allowed and reflexivity is tolerated.
This method has been used in development of bottom-up organizational ethics, generating participatory forms of art and music and also in transformative nursing practices.
