Antigonish and Activist Blogs

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Antigonish and Activist Blogs

• Canadian Community-Based Research

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Frontier College - 1899

• Alfred Fitzpatrick - Justice for the campmen
• Labourer-Teachers
• Reading camp association

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Womens Institutes- 1909

• Adelaide Hoodless and Laura Rose, Ontario
  Agricultural College
• for months on end, I had no woman to talk to,
  and my husband had no time to even listen
• Mrs. Gordon Grant, Today the womenhood of not
  only B.C. but of all the world is being
  awakened, 1913

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Antigonish Movement-1930-40s

• St. Francis Xavier University
• Fr. Jimmy Tompkins-Knowledge for the People
• Fr. Moses Coady
• Coady International Institute

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Saskatchewan-1944

• Election of Tommy Douglas and the CCF
• Establishment of the Division of Adult Education
• Watson Tomkins, David Smith and Murray Thomson

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The National Film Board

• John Grierson-1939 National Film Board Act
• adult education is the vitalizing force in any
  movement toward the realization of social justice
  through democratic methods E.A. Corbett, 1939
• Industrial Film Circuits - French and English

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The Labour Movement

• Paid Educational Leave - CAW and CUPW
• Occupational Health and Safety
• Donna Mergler and UQAM
• Darcy Martin -Steelworkers, CEP

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Participatory Research Project

• Roots in Tanzania - early 1970s-Budd
• First World Assembly of Adult Education-1976
• dian marino, Ted Jackson, Deborah Barndt, Greg
  Conchelos, Al Vigoda, Linda Harasim
• Big Trout Lake, Women Workers, Urban Immigrants

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Participatory Research

• A three pronged activity that combines social
  investigation, learning and action
• Conceived in Tanzania, influenced by Nyerere,
  Freire, Horton and Swantz
• Gain support and visibility in community-based
  groups and international NGOs

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International Participatory Research Network -1977

• To share ideas as equals based on our own
  engagement in local political action and
  struggles
• Nodes in Tanzania, India,Chile, Netherlands, USA,
  Canada, Caribbean
• Convergence - Our journal of choice

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International PR Network

• Founded Centro El Canelo de Nos in Chile-
• Society for Participatory Research in Asia-1981
• Many publications - influence in health
  promotion, sociology, dis/ability studies, social
  work, adult education, Aboriginal studies,
  environmental studies

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CBR and Popular Education

• Doris Marshall Institute - 1980s-90s
• Catalyst Centre - 1990s-2000s
• Influences within the Labour Movement
• Elsewhere?

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Impact on the Univesities

• Service aux collectivities - Quebec, 1970s
• Journal de Recherches et Actions Communautaires
  (REAC) - 1980s
• University of Montreal
• Faculty of Environmental Studies, York University
• OISE - Transformative Learning Centre

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PR and Evaluation

• Elizabeth Whitmore, Dalhousie and Carleton
  University
• Yusuf Kassam and E.T. Jackson
• Huge influence in the practices of international
  development
• IDRC- 1980s and 90s

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Ottawa-more than the CRD!

• Alex Sims - Ottawa Valley Retreat-60s
• Art Stinson - Action Research/Social work
• Alan Clarke - Algonquin Community Development
• PDF-Francine Coupal, Helen Patterson
• Fiona Mackenzie, Jacques Chevalier
• Richard McClure, Brad Cousins, Peter Levesque, U
  of O

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Research Councils and PR

• Community University Research Alliances - SSHRC
• Community Action for Health - Canadian Institutes
  for Health Research
• McConnell Family Foundation - support for CEDTAP,
  Service Learning, Trent University, St. F. Xavier

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The picture today

• Trent Centre for Community Education
• Wellesley Health Centre, Toronto
• Community-University Institute for Social
  Research, U of Saskatchewan
• Community Intervention Projects, Trois Rivieres
• Centre for Urban Health Initiatives, Toronto
• Centre for Community Innovation, Carleton

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Strengths

• HIV/AIDS research
• Aboriginal research
• Dis/ability research
• Environmental research
• Anti-poverty
• Homelessness
• Womens movement

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University Institutionalisation

• From projects to centres
• From centres to institution-wide structures
• Community-University Expositions
• University of Victoria Office of Community-Based
  Research

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UVic Office of CBE

• Co-Chaired by VP Research and CEO of United Way,
  Victoria
• Base-budgeted by the University of Victoria
• An open door to the community
• Active in Canadian Network

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A Canadian CBR Network?

• Build on CUEXPO contacts
• Build on work of the Wellesley Health Centre
• Build on work of Health Promotion Research
  Network
• Build on CBRNO
• And more?

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What now?

• CBR was born in community, remains grounded
  through community and grows in community
• Building capacity in communities
• Building community CBR institutions
• Working with independent CB research groups
  CCPA, Pembina Institute, Caledon Institute

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Promising areas of further work

• Community control of research-
• Learning about intellectual property rights
• Learning about MOUs and Partnership Agreements
• Getting paid for our role as researchers
• Linking local and global

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More stuff to think about

• Promoting community scholars in our
  universities/colleges
• Getting a voice on Granting Councils
• Working together for more visibility
• From web-sites to interactivity
• Pod-casts and blogs

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Now for the real fun!

• Can we create knowledge as CB Researchers the way
  we do in community?
• Where are the poems of CBR?
• How do we best incorporate theatre?
• What about womens collective arts as CBR?

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More fun

• Community Mapping/Green Mapping for the masses!
• Where are the lessons of the Popular Education
  movement?
• Can we sing peace into our communities?

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Why?

• Because the world is not OK
• Because we want to end poverty, homeless,
  inequity and injustice
• Because politics needs to be reawakened
• Because our educational institutions need to be
  transformed

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And

• Because the seeds of the transformation of our
  communities, our lives, and our world can be
  found in our practices, our activism and our
  dreamswithin this roomwith each of youand all
  of ustoday