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Researching With : A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research /

Gullion, Jessica Smartt,

Researching With : A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research / A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research Jessica Smartt Gullion, Abigail Tilton. - 1 online resource. - Personal/Public Scholarship ; 6 Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390836 . - Personal/Public Scholarship ; 6. Educational Research E-Books Online, Collection 2019, ISBN: 9789004390836. .

Front Matter -- Copyright page -- Advance Praise for Researching With -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Community Health -- Decolonizing Research -- Doing Community-Based Action Research -- Research Ethics -- Getting the Message Out -- Conclusion -- Back Matter -- A Pedagogical Approach to Action Research / References -- About the Authors. Jessica Smartt Gullion and Erin Graybill Ellis --

Many community health interventions fail, wasting tax dollars and human resources. These interventions are typically designed by subject matter experts who don’t have direct experience with the local community. In contrast, successful interventions are built from the ground up, planned and implemented by the people that will benefit from them, using community-based action research. Researching With: A Decolonizing Approach to Community-Based Action Research is a guide for how to do research that is inclusive, engages in community-building, and implements a decolonizing framework. This text advocates for a collaborative approach, researching with communities, rather than conducting research on them. Reviewing both theory and method, Jessica Smartt Gullion and Abigail Tilton offer practical tips for forming community partnerships and building coalitions. Researching With also includes helpful information about incorporating community work into a successful academic career. This book can be used as supplemental or primary reading in courses in sociology, social work, health research, nursing, public health, qualitative inquiry, and research methods, and is also of value to individual researchers and graduate students writing their thesis.

9789004424852 9789004424845

10.1163/9789004424852 DOI


Communities--Research.
Community psychology.

HM1033

155.94