ABSTRACT
This chapter aims to address three questions: What constitutes critical education for participatory research (PR)? Why is this approach to learning crucial? What form can it take? These questions are considered in relation to work I am currently engaged in as a lecturer in Education for Primary Health Care (EPHC) on a postgraduate course for development professionals. Following an introduction to the course itself and something of my history in relation to it, significant issues in the development of PR are introduced. This is followed by an examination of the meaning of critical education, as it applies to the course. Finally, ways in which critical learning processes are applied as a means of exploring PR and its relevance to PHC are considered.
