Praxis intervention is a methodological innovation. It believes in developing new paradigms of creative expression. These paradigms are such that challenges the unexplored era of mindsets, which form the voice of the mass and at times become a means of objective discrimination. The term has emerged to counter such mind sets and evolve with innovative means in achieving democratized development processes. It believes that any development process should bring security in society and security redefined as ecological sustainability, social equity and economic efficiency. This method takes participatory Action Research a step further and works on the ‘participants’ (i.e., everyone involved in the study, including initiators, funders etc.) to reflexively work on their respective ‘mentalities’, in other words, develop a self-critical awareness (not just enacting change on the external world).This is based on Marx’s notion of ‘false consciousness’ and is thought to be a possible way out of such a state. If false consciousness does not know or ignoring the ideological control that capitalism keeps in place, praxis intervention can wake us up and shake us in to consciousness.
