1. Why Don’t We do More Participatory Research?
Randy Stoecker

2. Why don’t we do more participatory research?
A challenging invitation
A critical question
A critical question
A challenging invitation

3. What is Participatory Research?
CBR
PAR
CBPR
Social Service!
Social change!
PRA
RRA AR
Pop Ed
participation
impact

4. Participatory Research and Service Learning
You got chocolate in my peanut butter!
You got peanut butter on my chocolate!
Service Learning
Participatory Research
student focused
curriculum driven
apply knowledge
free labor for university
community focused
change driven
create knowledge
free labor for community ?

5. Is participatory research really better? Is it really participatory?
Tokenism
Colonizing research
PR derived from SL
Arnstein, 1969

6. Challenges to participatory research
Communication
Community organizing
Rethinking knowledge
Shifting perspective

7. Why don’t we dance? A theory of knowledge production.
Social Relations of knowledge production
Means of knowledge production
Community control of knowledge production

8. Why don’t we dance? A methodological framework: Diagnose Evaluate
Prescribe
Implement
Evaluate

9. Why don’t we dance?
Become a good dancer
Use ignorance
Share the lead

10. The top 10 ways to get into participatory research
1. Ask a community worker how you can help.
2. Communicate, communicate, communicate.
3. Contribute to the literature on participatory research.
4. Teach a class on participatory research .
5. Think action.
6. Learn community organizing.
7. Find a community organizer .
8. Start small.
9. Read the literature on participatory research.
10. Take a community worker to lunch.

11. ? ? Possibilities Social Justice Peace Prosperity Social Justice Peace

12. Get the paper