Foundations of Community Research Chapter 11

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Foundations of Community Research Chapter 11

• Traditional view of science objective
  value free.
• CCP research is value driven.
• Researcher self-reflexivity aware of values,
  social position and relationship with
  disadvantaged people with whom collaborating.
  Ethical power issues and assumptions underlying
  research.
• Goal research community research to construct
  knowledge that challenges the status quo
  liberation well-being.
• Action-oriented social change.
• Ecological principle of interdependence CP can
  pursue goals through value-based research at
  multiple levels of analysis.
• Personal well-being liberation studies of
  process of personal empowerment, positive
  identities.
• Relational well-being liberation studies that
  examine the liberating and or oppressive
  qualities of relationships, groups and
  organisations.
• Collective well-being liberation expose the
  damaging impacts of oppressive structures and
  policies.

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• Paradigms
• Set of beliefs, world view, set of assumptions
  about the world and ones place in it human
  (social) constructions.
• Dominant paradigm - taken for granted, rarely
  challenged.
• In science research paradigms represent a
  philosophy of science address several ?
• Ontology (nature of reality),
• Epistemology (the nature of knowing reality),
• Ideology (role of values politics in
  knowledge),
• Methodology (tools to obtain knowledge).
• Three paradigms in CPR
• Post-positivist
• Constructivist
• Critical

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• Researchers anchor all work in assumption of one
  paradigm.
• Pragmatic position of mixed methods.
• Match research with appropriate paradigm.
• CPR roots in post-positivism move to
  constructivist CP suggest focus on critical as
  it shares similar values, including
  self-determination, collaboration, democratic
  participation and social justice.

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• Guideline for implementing value-based approach
  to research the process of research.
• Representation, roles responsibilities
• Decision-making power conflict resolution
• Community support
• Communication, dissemination action

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