Research Methods for Community Change : A Project-Based Approach

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ISBN: 9780761928881 | 076192888X
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 2/15/2005

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With an engaging, friendly style and numerous real world examples, author Randy Stoecker shows readers how to use a project-based research model in the community. The four features of the model are diagnosing a community condition; prescribing an intervention for the condition; implementing the prescription; and evaluating its impact.

Acknowledgments
"But I Don't Do Research"
"But I Don't Do Research"
"So What Is Research?"
"Okay, So I Do Research Already. Why Do I Need to Learn About It?"
"I'm Already Running Full-Out Managing Our Programs. How Can I Do More Research Too?"
"I'm Still Not Convinced. But Just In Case, Where Do I Start?"
"So Where Do I and My Community Fit In?"
Conclusion and Coming Attractions
The Goose Story
Resources
Notes
The Goose Approach to Research
Have You Ever Felt Like an Interloper?
Participatory Approaches to Research
A Participatory Approach to Project-Based Research
Building Participatory Relationships: The Researcher Side
Building Participatory Relationships: The Community Side
Loose Gravel
Conclusion
Resources
Notes
Head and Hand Together: A Project-Based Research Model
The Head and Hand Split
From Head and Hand to Research and Action
Of Programs and Projects
The Project Model: Diagnose, Prescribe, Implement, Evaluate
The Project Model and Participatory Flexibility
Where Are You In the Project Cycle?
Loose Gravel
Conclusion
Resources
Notes
Diagnosing
How to Survive on a Deserted Island
The Impetus for Diagnosis
Structures for a Diagnostic Process: The Core Group
Strategies for a Diagnostic Process: Problems and Opportunities
The Problems Approach: Needs Assessment
The Opportunities Approach: Asset Mapping
Of Needs and Resources
Loose Gravel
Conclusion
Resources
Notes
Prescribing: Researching Options
Which Way Should You Go From Here?
Inward-Looking vs. Outward-Looking Social Change: Services and Policies
A Planning Approach
The Special Case of Policy Prescriptions
Loose Gravel
Conclusion
Resources
Notes
Implementing: When Research Is the Project
Making Who-ville Heard
Research as Action
Community Research
Target Research
Loose Gravel
Conclusion
Resources
Notes
Evaluation
Back to the Future, or Messing With the Space-Time Continuum
Choices in Evaluation
Participatory Evaluation From the Beginning
Participatory Evaluation as an Integrated Process
Loose Gravel
Conclusion
Resources
Notes
Beyond Information: Research as an Organizational Lifestyle
The Montessori, Goose Approach, Popular Education, Tennis Coach Model of Project-Based Research
The Project-Based Research Cycle Revisited
Role Models for Research as a Daily Practice
Behind the Fun: Information Management and Information Technology
Loose Gravel: Information Myths and Monsters
In Conclusion
Notes
Strategic Planning
Research Ethics
Writing Proposals
Data Resources
Index
About the Author
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