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.
With an engaging, friendly style and numerous real world examples, author Randy Stoecker shows readers how to use a project-based research model in th...
Community-Based Research and Higher Education is the long-awaited guide to how to incorporate a powerful and promising new form of scholarship into academic settings. The book presents a model of community-based research (CBR) that engages community members with students and faculty in the course of their academic work. Unlike traditional academic research, CBR is collaborative and change-oriented and finds its research questions in the needs of communities. This dynamic research model combines classroom learning with social action in ways that can ultimately empower community groups...
Community-Based Research and Higher Education is the long-awaited guide to how to incorporate a powerful and promising new form of scholarship ...
Randy Stoecker's intimate biography of Cedar-Riverside, nationally known for a period as the Haight-Ashbury of the Mid-West, contains important lessons about the conflicts between the needs of capitalism and the needs of community. While attending graduate school at the University of Minnesota, the author moved to Cedar-Riverside, a Minneapolis neighborhood known for its determination to enact values of peace, justice, wholeness, participation, and community in its truest sense. There he experienced first-hand the clashes between a radical community and state-backed urban developers. His...
Randy Stoecker's intimate biography of Cedar-Riverside, nationally known for a period as the Haight-Ashbury of the Mid-West, contains important lesson...
Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, feed, and help organize communities. But while the students gain from their experiences, the contributors toa"The Unheard Voices"aask, Does the community?
This volume explores the impact of service learning on a community, and considers the unequal relationship between the community and the academy. Using eye-opening interviews with community-organization staff members, a"The Unheard Voices"achallenges assumptions about the effectiveness of...
Service learning has become an institutionalized practice in higher education. Students are sent out to disadvantaged communities to paint, tutor, ...
Randy Stoecker has been "practicing" forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, "Practice does not make perfect." In his highly personal critique, Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement, the author worries about the contradictions, unrealized potential, and unrecognized urgency of the causes as well as the risks and rewards of this work. Here, Stoecker questions the prioritization and theoretical/philosophical underpinnings of the core concepts of service learning: 1....
Randy Stoecker has been "practicing" forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, ...
Randy Stoecker has been practicing forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, Practice does not make perfect. In his highly personal critique, "Liberating Service Learning and the Rest of Higher Education Civic Engagement, "the author worries about the contradictions, unrealized potential, and unrecognized urgency of the causes as well as the risks and rewards of this work. Here, Stoecker questions the prioritization and theoretical/philosophical underpinnings of the core concepts of service learning: 1. learning, 2....
Randy Stoecker has been practicing forms of community-engaged scholarship, including service learning, for thirty years now, and he readily admits, Pr...
