Community Based Participatory Action Research (CBPAR) is a collaborative approach to research that involves all stakeholders throughout the research process, from establishing the research question, to developing data collection tools, to analysis and dissemination of findings. It is a research framework that aims to address the practical concerns of people in a community and fundamentally changes the roles of researcher and who is being researched. The CBPAR framework begins with a community’s issue, proposed action, or strategy and then supports or enhances this action with research that is community based and engaged. It frames research to be:
COMMUNITY BASED— grounded in the needs, issues, concerns, and strategies of communities and the com-munity-based organizations that serve them
PARTICIPATORY—directly engaging communities and community knowledge in the research process and its outcomes
ACTION BASED AND ORIENTED—supporting and/or enhancing the strategic action that leads to community transformation and social change
By its nature, CBPAR is applied research; it seeks to change issues that are critical to communities and focuses on engaging community members in research directed at addressing their social concerns. It is derived from several research approaches that are based on communities collaborating with researchers (ex. Community Based Research), or community members engaging in all aspects of the research process (ex. Participatory Action Research, or Action Research). As a frame-work for research conducted in, for, and by communities, CBPAR recognizes that:
++ Community knowledge is irreplaceable and provides key insights that ground-truths administrative data
++ Complex social issues often cannot be well understood or resolved by “expert” research
++ Interventions from outside of the community have often had disappointing results
++ Communities should have equal inclusion and collaboration in the identification, research, and resolution of community issues
++ There is value and legitimacy in the knowledge of individuals, families, and others in the community
CBPAR has a specific goal of collaborative research that engages stakeholders in an iterative research and action process. The diagram below shows that CBPAR links research and action, recognizing that social action requires further research and social research requires further action.
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Courses Outline
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Introduction
- What is CBPAR
- Differences between Community-Based Research, Community-Based Participatory Research, and Action Research
- CBPAR and Place-Based Research
- Community Participation and Engagement
- Benefits of CBPAR
- Research Ethics in CBPAR
- Planning a CBPAR Project
- CBPAR TERMINOLOGIES
- AssignmOverviewent One
- Weekend Group Assignment
- Resources
- References
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Community Participation
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Research Proposal
- HOW TO WRITE A RESEARCH ABSTRACT
- HOW TO WRITE A RESEARCH INTRODUCTION/BACKGROUND
- HOW TO WRITE A RESEARCH PROBLEM STATEMENT/QUESTION
- HOW TO WRITE A RESEARCH THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK
- HOW TO WRITE A LITERATURE REVIEW
- CITATION TRACKING
- CONTENTS ALERTS SERVICES
- EVALUATING SOURCES
- PRIMARY SOURCES
- SECONDARY SOURCES
- TERTIARY SOURCES
- HOW TO WRITE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
- QUALITATIVE METHODS
- QUANTITATIVE METHODS
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Assignment Two
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