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Research Methods for Community Change de Randy Stoecker

Research Methods for Community Change

Autor Randy Stoecker
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 9 feb 2012
Everyone is a member of a community, and every community is continually changing. To successfully manage that change, community members need information. This book 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781412994057
ISBN-10: 1412994055
Pagini: 304
Dimensiuni: 191 x 235 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Ediția:2. Auflage
Editura: Sage Publications, Inc
Locul publicării:Thousand Oaks, United States

Recenzii

“In its community-based focus and careful attention to the micro, inter-group and institutional dynamics of project centered research in and with communities, this text stands alone. I am not aware of another text that provides such an in-depth framework and rationale for community-centered research practice, as well as grounded details and guidance on the opportunities and challenges in integrating research more effectively and equitably through the different stages of the project cycle.”
 
'Research Methods for Community Change is a valuable text for undergraduate and graduate students alike. Readers seeking to understand new directions in social science research generally, or embark on their own community-based research will be well served by the mix of theory and practice, real-world examples, and student-friendly tone. [...] He is to be praised for offering a means for the next generation to engage in the communities in which they live, rather than remain holed up in a computer lab somewhere, trying in vain to find meaningful correlations instead of simply asking more meaningful and community-informed questions'

Cuprins

Chapter 1. "But I Don't . . ."
Chapter 2. The Goose Approach to Research
Chapter 3. The Community Development Context of Research
Chapter 4. Head and Hand Together: A Project-Based Research Model
Chapter 5. Diagnosing
Chapter 6. Prescribing: Researching Options
Chapter 7. Implementing: When Research Is the Project
Chapter 8. Evaluation
Chapter 9. Beyond Information
Appendix A. Strategic Planning
Appendix B. Research Ethics and the Institutional Review Board
Appendix C. Writing Proposals
Appendix D. Data Resources

Descriere

This book presents a research model which can be used in the community in order to tackle problems and grow.

Notă biografică

Randy Stoecker is a Professor of Community and Environmental Sociology at the University of Wisconsin, with a joint appointment at the University of Wisconsin Extension Center for Community and Economic Development. He is the moderator/editor of COMM-ORG: The On-Line Conference on Community Organizing and Development (http://comm-org.wisc.edu). His areas of expertise include community organizing and development, participatory action research/evaluation, and community information technology. He has been involved in a wide variety of community-based participatory research projects and participatory evaluations with community development corporations, community organizing groups, and community information technology programs across North America and Australia. He also helped build and evaluate university-community collaborations through the Corella and Bertram F. Bonner Foundation's Learn and Serve America Community Research Project. Randy trains, speaks and writes extensively on community organizing and development, community-based participatory research, service learning, and community information technology. He is author of Defending Community (1994) co-author of Community-Based Research and Higher Education (2003), and co-editor of The Unheard Voices: Community Organizations and Service Learning (2009). You can find his complete curriculum vitae at http://comm-org.wisc.edu/stoeckerfolio/stoeckvita.htm. He resides in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife and 50-pound standard poodle (his daughter is now away at college), and wishes he lived in a society where research has become such an integral part of the culture that people are no longer fooled into making self-destructive political choices.