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Author: M. Mayo
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-09-10
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 1137034742
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book explores the contributions that research, with refugees and with faith-based organizations for example, makes to strengthen community development and consequently promote active citizenship and social justice.
Author: Stoecker , Randy
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2022-04-08
Total Pages: 480
ISBN-13: 1839100974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis Handbook is a critical resource for carefully considering the possibilities and challenges of strategically integrating participatory action research (PAR) and community development (CD). Utilizing practical examples from diverse contexts across five continents, it looks at how communities are empowering themselves and bringing about systemic change.
Author: United States. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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Published: 2004
Total Pages: 8
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Rhonda Phillips
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing
Published: 2020-04-24
Total Pages: 513
ISBN-13: 1788118472
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis timely Research Handbook offers new ways in which to navigate the diverse terrain of community development research. Chapters unpack the foundations and history of community development research and also look to its future, exploring innovative frameworks for conceptualizing community development. Comprehensive and unequivocally progressive, this is key reading for social and public policy researchers in need of an understanding of the current trends in community development research, as well as practitioners and policymakers working on urban, rural and regional development.
Author: Robert Mark Silverman
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-11-20
Total Pages: 139
ISBN-13: 1317754522
DOWNLOAD EBOOKQualitative Research Methods for Community Development teaches the basic skills, tools, and methods of qualitative research with special attention to the needs of community practitioners. This book teaches students entering planning, community development, nonprofit management, social work, and similar applied fields the core skills necessary to conduct systematic research designed to empower communities and promote social change. Focusing on the basic elements of qualitative research, like field observation, interviewing, focus groups, and content analysis, Qualitative Research Methods for Community Development provides an overview of core methods and theoretical underpinnings of successful research. The book provides examples from past research used in transformative community projects across multiple disciplines. From housing, community organizing, neighborhood planning, and urban revitalization, this book gives students the skills they need to undertake their own projects, and provides professionals a valuable reference for their future research. The book serves as a primary text for courses in applied qualitative research, and as a reference book for professionals and community-based researchers. In addition to content detailing core methods used in qualitative research, it includes a chapter which provides guidance for the dissemination of qualitative results to a spectrum of audiences applying qualitative methods to action research and community empowerment.
Author: Gerald Midgley
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Published: 2012-12-06
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1441989110
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"This is the book I have been waiting for. Community Operational Research has shown that analysis can be used not only for, but also with, community groups, helping them to gain more control of their situations. What Midgley and Ochoa-Arias' volume does is provide not only rich examples of grass-roots practice, but also thought-provoking theoretical explorations. The editors have a point of view, but they allow space for debate with those who interpret Community OR differently." Jonathan Rosenhead (Emeritus Professor of Operational Research, London School of Economics and Political Science; Ex-President of the ORS)
Author: Randy Stoecker
Publisher: SAGE
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 1412994055
DOWNLOAD EBOOKResearch Methods for Community Change: A Project-Based Approach, Second Edition is an in-depth review of all of the research methods that communities can use to solve problems, develop their resources, protect their identities, and build power. With an engaging writing style and numerous real world examples, Randy Stoecker shows how to use a project-based research model in the community to: diagnose a community condition; prescribe an intervention for the condition; implement the prescription; and evaluate its impact. At every stage of this model there are research tasks, from needs and assets assessments to process and outcome studies. Readers also learn the importance of involving community members at every stage of the project and in every aspect of the research, making the research part of the community-building process.
Author: Hubert Campfens
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 1997-01-01
Total Pages: 512
ISBN-13: 9780802078841
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than forty authors in six countries representing the major regions of the world offer a truly global perspective on the changing nature of the practice and theory of community development.
Author: Guy Bessette
Publisher: IDRC
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 167
ISBN-13: 1552500667
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProvides advice to researchers, community members, and development practitioners on how to improve their ability to effectively reach policy makers and promote change. Covers their roles as a communication actors, how to plan a participatory development communication strategy, and the use of communication tools.
Author: Banks, Sarah
Publisher: Policy Press
Published: 2018-12-19
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13: 1447340787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffering a critical examination of the nature of co-produced research, this important new book draws on materials and case studies from the ESRC funded project ‘Imagine – connecting communities through research’. Outlining a community development approach to co-production, which privileges community agency, the editors link with wider debates about the role of universities within communities. With policy makers in mind, contributors discuss in clear and accessible language what co-production between community groups and academics can achieve. The book will be valuable for practitioners within community contexts, and researchers interested in working with communities, activists, and artists.
