Week 9 Flashcards
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CBPAR
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- Community Based Participatory Action Research
- Response to criticism of the scientific paradigm
- Questions role of researcher and how good results are
- distance between researcher and subject
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CBPAR History
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- Emerged independently on different continents in 60’s
- Came through Practical work in Tanzania, Columbia, India
- Not from mainstream academics
- Seems to be a necessity for personal rights and respect - Hall1981
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Respect for Participants
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- People don’t want to be seen as subjects for experiments
- Want good research but don’t want to be treated just like experiments
- don’t got ot community to “find research subjects”
- About getting involved in a community so that it can benefit that community
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Defining CBPAR
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- Can be Qual or Quant
- Democratic & equitable and liberating
- Life enhancing
- Not a distinct methos
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CBPAR Social Justice
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- Transforming understanding of creation of knowledge
- Intentional ongoing process focused on a community
- Mutual respect, critical reflection, caring
- People lacking equality gaing access to resources
- Produce knowledge about those affected by the knowledge
- Activist agenda of information gathering
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CBPAR Activites
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3 pronged Activity designed to support less empowered
1. Social Investigation - Full contribution of the community throughout
2. Educational process of mobilisation for change
3. Action taken for development
Engagement and organisational change through policy creation and evaluation
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Characteristics of CBPAR
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- Collaborative, equitable partnership throughout
- Community is the unit of identity
- Builds on strengths of community
- Fosters co-learning and capacity building
- Balance knowledge generation with community benefit
- Focuses on problems of local relevance
- Disseminates results and involves all partners in wider dissemination
- Involves a long-term commitment to sustainability
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Power Issues CBPAR
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- Direct involvement with participants
- Requires collaboration
- Shift unequal power between researcher and community
- Reverse traditional: Researcher is the expert participants are passive
- Informed decisions for and by community
- Primary goals is to create positive social change
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CBPAR Mutual Benefit
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- Redefine knowledge to return agency to the community
- Allows community to be fully involved
- Researcher gives & gains expertise
- Perspectives equally valide to both parties
- Imposed knowledge can lead to exclusion and non-investment
- Researcher deeply identifies with community and commited to de-marginalising or releiving oppression
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Cyclical CBPAR
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- Cyclical process of critcal engagement
- leading towards change for participants and the situation
- Those affected in a situation will provide an effective solution
- Community engagement provides authentic perspective
- Recognition of change over time
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Primary Goal
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- Structural transformation through empowerment
- Give participants skills to be empowered in the greater world
- Supports emancipation from disempowerment and advocates agency
12
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CBPAR is not
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- Community or Placed/based
- Sporadic or tokenistic
- A specific method or design
13
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Ladder of Participation
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- A tool to help ppl to discover for themselves
- Insight into ways we support or undermine decision making
- Between academic and community partners
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Citizen Power
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- Citizen Power
- Delegated Power
- Partnership
15
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Tokenism
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- Placation
- Consultation
- Informing
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NonParticipation
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- Therapy
- Manipulation
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Levels of Community Involvement
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- Outreach
- Consult
- Involve
- Collaborate
- Shared Leadership
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Benefits of CBPAR
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- Combines academic knowledge with grassroots knowledge
- Actively engages participants
- More people involved opens horizons
- Allows reflexivity and bias consideration
- Strategically address bias
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Advantages of CBPAR
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- The Social Justice factor
- Facilitates community’s own understandings
- Supports agency, control and change for the better
- Researcher’s role extends beyond reseach
- suppots emancipatory action
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Challenges of CBPAR
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- Greater reflexivity required
- If researcher seems biased then community withdraws
- Rescuer-victim fallacy
- What is participation vs active involvement
- Translate academic speak to natural language without being condescending
- Reconciling opposing views
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Interdisciplinary Approach - CBPAR
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- Because CBPAR is so complex it might seem hard for one researcher alone
- While it is inclusive does not mean psych has a monopoly on this approach
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Radical Changes - Teams
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- Required as part of the research
- Often acheived by including public health, educational, sociological etc professionals
- Social justice requires an army of professionals working together
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Benefits of Interdisciplinary Approach
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- Time to translate researcg is reduced
- Single discipline can struggle to move from efficacy to effectiveness
- Avoids asking wrong questions or looking in the wrong place for data
- Include range of experiences, and comprehensiveness
- Outside researcher accept and appreicate findings more easily
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Challenges of Interdisciplinary Approach
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- Tension between Positivist and anti-positivist
- Tension between other disciplines as well
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Problems to Anticipate in Interdisciplinary Approach
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- Credibility
- Singular POEM must be decided upon
- Transferability - Difficlut to agree on when text has enough rich description
- Dependibility - May not agree on the logic or replication of findings
- Confirmability - May not agree on or corroborate on the findings
- Group dynamics could be flawed
