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

Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning

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

 

t      Action Research/Organizational Development, New Zealand: http://users.actrix.co.nz/bobwill

t      Bob Dick/Australia: http://www.scu.edu.au/schools/gcm/ar/arhome.html  

t      Community-Based Learning Initiative of Princeton University http://www.princeton.edu/~cbli  

t      Community Health Scholars Program: http://www.sph.umich.edu/chsp/ 

t      Comm-Org: http://comm-org.utoledo.edu/research.htm

t      Loka Institute website: http://www.loka.org

t      Michigan Journal for Community Service Learning: http://www.umich.edu/~mjcsl/

t      The Institute for Community Research: http://www.incommunityresearch.org

t      The Participation Resource Centre/Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, UK: http://www.ids.ac.uk/ids/particip 

t      The Corella & Bertram F. Bonner Foundation Community Research Project: http://www.bonner.org/campus/communityresearch.htm

 

Organizations

 

t      Community-based research: Loka Institute http://www.loka.org

t      Faculty support network: Educators for Community Engagement (formerly The Invisible College), c/o Ms. Katie White, 312 New North, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. 20057, e-mail: whitekm@georgetown.edu

t      Professional association: American Association for Higher Education, 1 Dupont Circle, Suite 360, Washington, D.C. 20036-1110, e-mail: info@aahe.org

t      Institutiona1/presidential commitment: Campus Compact, Box 1975, Brown University, Providence, RI, 02912-1975, e-mail: www.compact.org

t      Student association: COOL, 1101 15th Street, NW, Suite 203, Washington, D.C. 20005. http://www.cool2serve.org/

t      The Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action. http://www.arnova.org/

t      The Community Development Society. http://comm-dev.org/ 

t      Workers Independent News Service: http://www.laborradio.org

 

 

Selected Readings

 

Articles

      Ansley, F., & Gaventa, J. (1997). "Researching for democracy & democratizing research." Change, 29, 46-53.

      Benson, L. & Harkavy, I. (1996). Communal participatory action research as a strategy for improving universities and the social sciences: Penn's work with the West Philadelphia Improvement Corps as a case study. Educational Policy, 10, 202-23.

      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 North America. In Action and knowledge: Breaking the monopoly with participatory action research, Ed. 0. Fals-Borda and M. A. Rathman, New York: Apex Press.

      Gaventa, John. (1993). The powerful, the powerless, and the experts: Knowledge struggles in an information age. In Voices of change: Participatory research in the United States and Canada, Ed. By P. Park, et al., Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

      Gedicks, Al. (1996). Activist sociology: Personal reflections. Special Issue: Sociology and Social Action, Part I. Sociological Imagination, Volume 33.

      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 United States and Canada, Ed. By P Park et al., Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

      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, Marion. (1996). Issues of power in the participatory research process, pp. 82-93 in K. De Koening and M. Martin (eds.), Participatory research in health: Issues and experiences. London, Zed Books, 1996.

      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). Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge.

      Nyden, Philip and Wim Wiewel. (1992). Collaborative research: Harnessing the tensions between researcher and practitioner. The American Sociologist. 23, no. 4 (Winter), 43-55.

      Park, Peter. (1993). What is participatory research? A theoretical and methodological perspective." In Voices of change: Participatory research in the United States and Canada. Ed. by P. Park et al., Westport, CT: Bergin & Garvey.

      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). Washington D.C.: American Association for Higher Education.

      Reardon, Ken, John Welsh, Brian Kreiswirth, and John Forester. (1993). Participatory action research from the inside: Community development practice in East St. Louis. The American Sociologist 24:69-91.

      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. Oxford Press, 1999.

      Stoecker, Randy. (1999). Making connections: Community organizing, empowerment planning, and participatory research in participatory evaluation. Sociological Practice 1:209-232.

      Strand, K. (2000), Community-based research as pedagogy. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning 7:89-96.

      Strand, K., Marullo, S., Cutforth, N., Stoecker, R., & Donohue, P. Principles of Best Practice for CBR. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Vol. 9, No. 3, 5-15.

      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. Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, Vol. 9, No. 3, 44-56.

      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. New York: Routledge.

De Koning, K. & Martin, M. (Eds.), Participatory research in health: Issues and experiences. London: Zed Books, 1996.

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. New York: Continuum, 1970.

      Greenwood, D. & Levin, M. Introduction to action research: Social research for social change. Sage, 1998.

      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. Philadelphia: Temple University Press.

      Maguire, P. Doing participatory research: A feminist approach. Amherst: University of Massachusetts, 1987.

      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, Thousand Oaks, CA: Pine Forge

      Park, Peter, Mary Brydon-Miller, Budd Hall, and Ted Jackson (eds.) Voices of change: Participatory research in the United States and Canada. Westport, Connecticut: Bergin and Garvey.

      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

      Strand, Kerry., Marullo, Sam., Cutforth, Nick., Stoecker, Randy., & Donahue, Pat. (2003). Community based research and higher education: Principles and practices. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass

      Stringer, Ernest, Action research: A handbook for practitioners. Corwin, 1999.

      Wadsworth, Yolanda. 1991. Everyday Evaluation on the Run. Melbourne: Action Research issues Association.

      Wadsworth, Yolanda. 1984. Do it Yourself Social Research. Melbourne: Victorian Council of Social Service and the Melbourne Family Care Organisation.

      Williams, Lee. 1997. Grassroots participatory research. Knoxville: Community Partnership Center, University of Tennessee.

      Williams, Lee (ed.) An annotated bibliography for participatory and collaborative field research methods. Community Partnership Center, University of Tennessee, 1996.

 

 

Other Related Readings

 

      Boyer, E. L. (1990). Scholarship reconsidered: Priorities of the professorate. Princeton, NJ:

The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.

      Coles, R. (1993). The call of service: A witness to idealism. Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin.

Edwards, B. and S. Marullo, Eds. (1999). Universities in troubled times: Institutional responses.

American Behavioral Scientist 42(5): 743-901.

      Freire, Paulo. (1994, orig. 1973). Pedagogy of the oppressed. New York, NY: Continuum

Press.

      Howard, J. (ed.). (1993). PRAXIS (three volume series). Ann Arbor, MI: Office of

Community Service Learning Press.

      Jacoby, B. and associates (eds.). Service-learning in higher education. San Francisco, CA:

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.

Westport, CT: Bergin and Garvey.

      Lynn, F. (2000). Community-scientist collaboration in environmental research, American

Behavioral Scientist, December.

      Lynton, E. (1995). Making the case for professional service. Washington, D.C.: American

Association for Higher Education.

      Marullo, 5. (1999). Sociology's essential role--promoting critical thinking in service learning.

In J. Ostrow, S. Enos, G Hesser, Sociology and service-learning, Washington, D.C.: Association

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. New York:

Basic.

      Nyden, P. et al. (eds.). (1997). Building community: Social science in action. Thousand Oaks,

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. Washington, D.C.: American

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. Lawrence Erlbaum.

      Stringer, E. (1996). Action research: A handbook for practitioners. Thousand Oaks, CA:

Sage.

      Sullivan, C. et al. (eds.). (1999). Service-learning: Educating students for life. Harrisonburg,

VA: Institute for Higher Education, James Madison University.

      Tolan, P., Keys, C., Chertok, F., & Jason, L. A. (1990). Researching community psychology:

Issues of theory and methods. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.