Community Based Research Resources
Journals
American Behavioral Scientist
Journal of Community
Practice
Action
Research
American Journal of
Community Psychology
American Sociologist
Citizenship Studies
Field Methods
Journal of Public Service and Outreach
Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly
Sociological Imagination
Social Problems
Teaching Sociology
The American Prospect
The Chronicle of Higher Education
The Chronicle of Philanthropy
The Journal of Democracy
Universities and Community Schools
Urban Review
Voluntas
Youth and Society
Websites
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Action Research/Organizational Development,
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Bob
Dick/Australia: http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html
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Community-Based
Learning Initiative of
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Community Health Scholars Program: http://www.sph.umich.edu/chsp/
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Comm-Org:
http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/research.htm
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Loka Institute website: http://www.loka.org
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Michigan
Journal for Community Service Learning: http://www.umich.edu/~mjcsl/
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The Institute for Community Research: http://www.incommunityresearch.org
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Participation Resource Centre/Institute of Development Studies,
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& Bertram F. Bonner Foundation Community Research Project: http://www.bonner.org/campus/communityresearch.htm
Organizations
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Community-based research: Loka Institute http://www.loka.org
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Faculty support network: Educators for Community
Engagement (formerly The Invisible College), c/o Ms. Katie White, 312 New
North,
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Professional
association: American Association for Higher Education,
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Institutiona1/presidential
commitment: Campus Compact,
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Student association: COOL,
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The Association for Research on Nonprofit
Organizations and Voluntary Action. http://www.arnova.org/
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The
Community Development Society. http://comm-dev.org/
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Workers Independent News Service: http://www.laborradio.org
Selected
Articles
Ansley,
F., & Gaventa, J. (1997). "Researching for democracy &
democratizing research." Change, 29, 46-53.
Benson, L. & Harkavy,
Brown, L.
David and Rajesh Tandon. (1983). Ideology and political economy in inquiry:
Action and participatory research. Journal of Applied Behavioral Science 19:277-294.
Cancian,
Francesca M. and Cathleen Armstead. (1992). Participatory research. Encyclopedia
of Sociology. Vol.3, pp.1427-32.
Couto, R.
(1987). Participatory research: Methodology and critique. Clinical
Sociological Review, 5, 83, 90.
Gaventa,
John. (1991). Toward a knowledge democracy: Viewpoints on participatory
research in
Gaventa,
John. (1993). The powerful, the powerless, and the experts: Knowledge struggles
in an information age. In Voices of change: Participatory research in the
Gedicks,
Al. (1996). Activist sociology: Personal reflections. Special Issue: Sociology
and Social Action,
Green, L.
W., M. A. George, M. Daniel, C. J. Frankish, C. P. Herbert, W. R. Bowie, and M.
O'Neil,
(1997). Background on participatory research. Pp.53-66 in Doing
community based research: A reader. The Loka Institute.
Hall,
Budd. (1992). From margins to center? The development and purpose of
participatory research. The American Sociologist 23:15-28.
Hall,
Budd. (1993). Introduction. In Voices of change: Participatory research in
the
Ledogar R,
Garden Acosta L, Penchaszadeh (1999). A. Building International Public Health
Vision
Through
Local Community Research: the El Puente - CIET Partnership. American Journal of
Public Health, 89 (12) 1795-97.
Lynch, Jean M. (1993). Community participation in community
needs assessments. Journal of Applied Sociology. 10:125-136.
Maguire,
Patricia (1997). A framework for feminist participatory research, pp.67-69 in
D. Murphy, M. Scammell, and R. Sclove, Doing community-based research: A
reader. The Loka Institute.
Martin,
McNicoll,
P. (1999). Issues in teaching participatory action research. Journal of
Social Work Education, 35, 51-63.
Nyden, P.,
Figert, A., Shibley, M., & Burrows, D. (1997). University-community
collaborative research: Adding chairs at the research table. In P. Nyden, A.
Figert, M. Shibley & D. Burrows (Eds.), Building community: Social
science in action (pp. 3-13).
Nyden,
Philip and Wim Wiewel. (1992). Collaborative research: Harnessing the tensions
between researcher and practitioner. The American Sociologist. 23, no. 4
(Winter), 43-55.
Porpora, D. (1999). Action
research: the highest stage of service-learning? In J. Ostrow, G. Hesser, &
S. Enos (Eds.), Cultivating the sociological imagination: Concepts and models for
service-learning (pp. 121-133).
Reardon,
Ken, John Welsh, Brian Kreiswirth, and John Forester. (1993). Participatory
action research from the inside: Community development practice in
Reinharz,
Shulamit. (1992) Feminist action research, Chapter 10 in Feminist methods in
social research, Oxford University Press.
Sarri,
Rosemary C., and Catherine M. Sarry. (1992). Organizational and community
change through participatory action research. Administration in Social Work 16,
no. 34:99-122.
Simonson,
Lynnell, J. And Virginia A. Bushaw. (1993). Participatory action research:
Easier said than done. The American Sociologist 24(1):27.
Small, 5.
(1995). Action-oriented research: models and methods. Journal of Marriage
and the Family, 57, 941-56.
Spalter-Roth,
Roberta and Heidei Hartmann. (1999). Small happinesse: The feminist struggle to
integrate social research with social activism." Pp.333-47 in S.
Hesse-Biber, C. Gilmartin, & R. Lydenberg (eds), Feminist approaches to
theory and methodology.
Stoecker,
Randy. (1999). Making connections: Community organizing, empowerment planning,
and participatory research in participatory evaluation. Sociological
Practice 1:209-232.
Stoecker, R., Amble, S., Cutforth, N.,
Donohue, P., Dougherty, D., Marullo, S., Nelson, K., and Stutts, N. (2003).
Community-Based Research Networks: Development and Lessons Learned in an
Emerging Field.
Ward, K.
and WoIf-Wendel, L. (2000), Community-centered service learning: moving from doing
for to doing with. American Behavioral Scientist 5, 767-80.
Books and Collections
Boal,
Augusto. 1982. The Theatre of the Oppressed.
De Koning,
K. & Martin, M. (Eds.), Participatory research in health: Issues and
experiences.
Fals-Borda,
0. and M. A. Rathman (eds.), Action and knowledge: Breaking the monopoly with participatory
action research, Apex Press, 1991.
Freire, Paolo. Pedagogy of
the oppressed. Trans. M. Bergman Ramos.
Horton, Myles, and Paulo Freire. 1990. We
Make the Road by Walking: Conversations on Education and Social Change. Ed.
Brenda Bell, John Gaventa, and John Peters.
Maguire, P. Doing participatory research: A feminist
approach.
Murphy,
Danny, Madeleine Scammell and Richard Sclove (eds.), Doing community-based
research: A reader. The Loka Institute, 1997.
Nyden,
Philip, Anne Figert, Mark Shibley, Darryl Burrows. 1997. Building community:
Social science in action,
Park,
Peter, Mary Brydon-Miller, Budd Hall, and Ted Jackson (eds.) Voices of
change: Participatory research in the
Smith,
Susan E. Dennis George Willms, Nancy A. Johnson (eds.), Nurtured by
knowledge: Learning to do participatory action-research. International
Development Research Centre, 1997.
Stoecker, Randy, and Edna Bonacich
(eds.), The American Sociologist, Vol.23, No.4 (Winter 1992), and
Vol.24, No.1 (Spring, 1993).
Stoecker, Randy, (ed.) Sociological
Imagination, Vol. 33, No. 1, 1996 and Vol. 33, No. 2, 1996. http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/si/sihome.htm
Stringer, Ernest, Action research: A
handbook for practitioners. Corwin, 1999.
Wadsworth, Yolanda. 1991. Everyday
Evaluation on the Run.
Wadsworth, Yolanda. 1984. Do it Yourself
Social Research.
Williams,
Lee. 1997. Grassroots participatory research.
Williams,
Lee (ed.) An annotated bibliography for participatory and collaborative
field research methods.
Other Related
Boyer, E. L.
(1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professorate.
The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
Coles, R. (1993).
The call of service: A witness to idealism.
Edwards,
B. and
American
Behavioral Scientist 42(5): 743-901.
Freire, Paulo. (1994, orig. 1973). Pedagogy
of the oppressed.
Press.
Howard, J. (ed.).
(1993). PRAXIS (three volume series).
Community Service Learning Press.
Jacoby, B. and
associates (eds.). Service-learning in higher education.
Jossey Bass.
Kahne, J. and J.
Westheimer. (1996). In the service of what? The politics of service-learning.
Phi Delta Kappan 77(9): 593-599.
LeCompte, M.D.,
Milroy, W.L. & Preissle, J. (1992) Handbook on qualitative research
methods in education, Academic Press.
Lisman, C. David (1998).
Toward a civil society: Civic literacy and service learning.
Lynn, F. (2000).
Community-scientist collaboration in environmental research, American
Behavioral Scientist, December.
Lynton, E.
(1995). Making the case for professional service.
Association for Higher Education.
Marullo, 5.
(1999). Sociology's essential role--promoting critical thinking in service learning.
In J. Ostrow,
for Advancement of Higher Education.
Marullo, S. and
B. Edwards. (2000). Service-learning pedagogy as universities' response to
troubled times. American Behavioral Scientist 43(5).
McKnight, H.
(1996). The careless society: Community and its counterfeits.
Basic.
Nyden, P. et al.
(eds.). (1997). Building community: Social science in action.
CA: Sage.
Nyden, P.,
Figert, A., Shibley, M., & Burrows, D. (1997). Building community:
Social science in action, Pine Forge Press.
Ostrow, J,
Hesser, G. and Enos, S. (eds.). (1999). Cultivating the Sociological
Imagination:
Concepts and Models for Service-Learning in Sociology.
Association for Higher Education.
Reason, P., and
Bradbury, H. (Eds.) (2001). Handbook of Action Research. Sage.
Root, R. and Thorme, T.
(2001) Community-Based Projects in Applied Statistics: Using Service Learning
to Enhance Student Understanding. The American Statistician 55(4):326-33
1.
Schensul, J.J.
& LeCompte, M.D (1999). Ethnographer's Toolkit, Rowman &
Littlefield.
Stoecker, R.
(1999). Are academics irrelevant? Roles for scholars in participatory research.
American Behavioral Scientist, 42(5): 834-848.
Stringer, E.
(1997). Community-based ethnography: Breaking traditional boundaries of
research, teaching, and learning.
Stringer, E.
(1996). Action research: A handbook for practitioners.
Sage.
Sullivan, C. et
al. (eds.). (1999). Service-learning: Educating students for life.
VA: Institute for Higher Education,
Tolan, P., Keys,
C., Chertok, F., & Jason, L. A. (1990). Researching community psychology:
Issues of theory and methods.