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Title Community-based research and higher education : principles and practices / Kerry Strand ... [and others]
Edition First edition
Published San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2003]
©2003

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Description xxvii, 261 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series
Jossey-Bass higher and adult education series.
Contents 1. Origins and Principles of Community-Based Research -- 2. Why Do Community-Based Research? Benefits and Principles of Successful Partnerships -- 3. Community Partnership Practices -- 4. Methodological Principles of Community-Based Research -- 5. Research Practices in Community-Based Research -- 6. Community-Based Research as a Teaching Strategy -- 7. Teaching Community-Based Research: The Challenges -- 8. Organizing for Community-Based Research: Principles and Models of Campus-Based Administrative Structures -- 9. Managing Community-Based Research: Practical Matters -- 10. A Look to the Future
Summary "Community-Based Research and Higher Education is the long-awaited guide to how to incorporate a powerful and promising new form of scholarship into academic settings. The book presents a model of community-based research (CBR) that engages community members with students and faculty in the course of their academic work. Unlike traditional academic research, CBR is collaborative and change-oriented and finds its research questions in the needs of communities. This dynamic research model combines classroom learning with social action in ways that can ultimately empower community groups to address their own agendas and shape their own futures. At the same time it emphasizes the development of knowledge and skills that truly prepare students for active civic engagement."--BOOK JACKET
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-249) and index
Notes Also available online via the World Wide Web by subscription to netLibrary, Inc. (CEIRC Shared Collection)
Subject Community and college.
Education -- Research.
Service learning.
Author Strand, Kerry.
LC no. 2003001613
ISBN 0787962058 (alk. paper)