1. Some Questions as We Begin?
Some Questions as We Begin ? ?
Thinking about CBR ? ? ?

2. Why do CBR? Because it’s better research.
Because it’s better pedagogy.
Because it helps the community.
Because it feels good.
Because it has revolutionary potential.

3. From: Strand, Marullo, Cutforth, Stoecker, and Donohue
What is CBR?
CBR is a collaborative enterprise between researchers (professors and/or students) and community members.
CBR validates multiple sources of knowledge and promotes the use of multiple methods of discovery and of dissemination of the knowledge produced.
CBR has as its goal social action and social change for the purpose of enhancing social justice.
From: Strand, Marullo, Cutforth, Stoecker, and Donohue

4. Who is “the Community”? Institutions and Funders CBO People With the
Service provider
CBO
Service provider
People
With the
Problem
CBO
Service provider
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Institutions
and Funders
CBO
CBO
Institutions
and Funders
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5. What is “Collaboration” in CBR?
Who…
Chooses the question?
Designs the research?
Collects the data?
Analyzes the data?
Reports/Acts on the results?

6. How do Students fit in CBR?
Learn by doing or serve by doing?
Community-driven or curriculum-driven?
A requirement, a responsibility, or a right?

7. How do You do CBR? Research Designs Pedagogy Designs
Participatory Research (radical/critical)
Action Research (mainstream/consensual)
Pedagogy Designs
Popular Education/Theatre (radical/critical)
Service Learning (mainstream/consensual)

8. What is Your Model of Social Change?
Conflict Theory
Functionalist Theory
Agency-Based
Advocacy
(?)
Service Delivery (action research / service learning)
Grass-Rooted
Community Organizing (participatory research / popular education)
Community Development

9. Some Questions As We Begin…
Why do CBR?
What is CBR?
Who is the community?
What is collaboration?
How do students fit in CBR?
How do you do CBR?
What is your model of Social Change?

10. For More… Thinking About CBR: Some Questions As We Begin
Community-Based Research: The Next New Thing
Community-University Collaborations: Future Choices