Community Based Research
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This document outlines three types of research - inventing with artifacts which makes the familiar strange, inventing a public or community-based research done in partnership with communities to turn imagination into reality, and social invention typical in social sciences to turn answers into questions. It contrasts traditional academic research which is contemplative, internally motivated and governed by disciplinary rules, to community-based research which is active, externally motivated and governed by circumstantial demands. Both involve writing and require using critical and creative powers, though community-based research draws on methods from multiple disciplines and takes place in rhetorical situations within communities.
Community Based Research
- 1. INVENTING A PUBLIC Community-Based Research
- 2. Inventing with artifacts Typical of the humanities, e.g., literary studies, philosophy, history, etc. Purpose: To make the familiar strange. Inventing a public, or community-based research Practiced by researchers across the disciplines in partnership with the community. Purpose: To turn imagination into reality. Social invention Typical of the social sciences, e.g., anthropology, psychology, poli sci, sociology, etc. Purpose: To turn answers into questions.
- 3. Points of Contrast between Traditional Academic Research and Community-Based Research (CBR) Traditional Research By nature contemplative. Internally motivated. Governed by disciplinary rules . CBR By nature active . Externally motivated. Governed by circumstantial demands .
- 5. Common Ground between Traditional Research and CBR BOTH involve writing . CBR draws on the research methods used in the humanities, social sciences, and physical sciences. BOTH require us to exercise our critical and creative powers simultaneously. BOTH take place in rhetorical situations .