Knowledge that Leads to Action
Abstract
The speech of Father Józef Wrzesiński, delivered in 1980 during a sitting of the International Conference on Poverty and Social Exclusion of UNESCO set forward a programme for action. The author drew attention to the unappreciated knowledge that the poor themselves have on poverty on the basis of their own direct experiences and emphasises the role of the knowledge about poverty of the people working amongst those who experience its effects. Without these two types of information on the topic, academic knowledge would be incomplete and inadequate, since it cannot form the basis of a programme of activity. In these three types of knowledge and their roles, Father Wrzesinski refers to the experience of the International Movement ATD Fourth World.
Keywords
poverty; knowledge based on experience; knowledge of the poorest and excluded; knowledge of activists and volunteers; ATD Fourth World; the Fourth World families
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