1. Chapter 10
Community-Based
Participatory Research or
Participatory Action
Research (with Krista
Harper)

2. What Is CBPR?
• CBPR breaks with the logic of the
detached, objective observer in two ways:
– (1) The researcher is trying to bring about
change, and
– (2) the researcher interacts & cooperates with
the researched to bring changes the:
• Researched themselves identified as desirable
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3. What Is CBPR?
• A Brief History (or Rather, “Herstory”)
– The Researcher As An Agent Of Change
– The Community As The “Expert”
– The Researcher Facilitates & Doesn’t Dictate
• What Is the Meaning of “Community?”
• Problem-Solving? Whose Problems,
Whose Solutions?
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4. Par In Action: Environmental Justice
In A Hungarian Village
• Starting with Justice
• Getting to Know the Roma
• A Key Informant Emerges
• Jointly Designing the Project
– Photo-voice
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5. An Overview Of CBPR As A Design
Choice
• The researcher works with community
leaders and the research is interactive;
– In accord with egalitarian ideals
• It is effective to use methods readily
understood by community members and:
– That are inherently engaging and participatory
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6. An Overview Of CBPR As A Design
Choice
• The production of information in a visual or
physical form may be a more:
– Meaningful product than peer-reviewed article
published in a scholarly journal
• The researchers must be willing to
assume new roles as facilitators of:
– Interaction within the community
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7. An Overview Of CBPR As A Design
Choice
• Interaction between the community
members and the outsider is seen:
– Explicitly not only as a way of beginning to
address specific problems but, above all:
• As a method of breaking isolation
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8. Practical Tips
• CBPR and PAR require background
knowledge of the community;
– And contacts with community leaders
• Try to establish multiple contacts and
relationships in the community
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9. Practical Tips
• Be patient
• Develop methods of research and
dissemination of the findings that will be:
– Comprehensible and of interest to the
community
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10. Par As Method And Object Of
Teaching: Critical Perspectives
• Careful preparation and a self-reflective
approach to the limits of this design;
– And the ethical and political concerns
associated with it
• A Retelling of PAR’s History
• Revising the Definition of PAR
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11. Par and Pedagogy: The Politics Of
Teaching & Learning Through CBPR
• Beware the Backfire Effect: When CBPR
Becomes the “Cure That Kills”
– Objectification
– Blaming The Victim
– Paternalism
• Often manifests in researchers’ and students’
verbal and nonverbal expressions
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12. Par and Pedagogy: The Politics Of
Teaching & Learning Through CBPR
– Identifying And Overidentifying With “The
Other”
– Disillusionment With CBOs
• Community-based organizations
– Pressure To Misrepresent
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