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The Challenge of Short-Term Service-Learning
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Tryon, Elizabeth; Stoecker, Randy; Martin, Amy; Seblonka, Kristy; Hilgendorf, Amy; Nellis, Margaret – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2008
This paper presents the results of interviews with staff from 64 community organizations regarding their experiences with service-learners. One of the themes that emerged from the interviews focused on concerns related to short-term service-learning commitments that last a semester or less. We explore the challenges presented to community groups…
Descriptors: Community Organizations, Interviews, Problems, Service Learning
Community-Based Research: From Practice to Theory and Back Again.
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Stoecker, Randy – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2003
Explores the theoretical strands being combined in community-based research--charity service learning, social justice service learning, action research, and participatory research. Shows how different models of community-based research, based in different theories of society and different approaches to community work, may combine or conflict. (EV)
Descriptors: Action Research, Community Involvement, Higher Education, Participatory Research
Principles of Best Practice for Community-Based Research.
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Strand, Kerry; Marullo, Sam; Cutforth, Nick; Stoecker, Randy; Donohue, Patrick – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2003
Proposes a community-based research (CBR) model that is genuinely collaborative and driven by community rather than campus interests; that democratizes the creation and dissemination of knowledge; and that seeks to achieve positive social change. Demonstrates how this model translates into principles that underlie the practice of CBR in four…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Higher Education, Participatory Research, Service Learning
Community-Based Research Networks: Development and Lessons Learned in an Emerging Field.
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Stoecker, Randy; Ambler, Susan H.; Cutforth, Nick; Donohue, Patrick; Dougherty, Dan; Marullo, Sam; Nelson, Kris S.; Stutts, Nancy B. – Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning, 2003
Compares seven multi-institutional community-based research networks in Appalachia; Colorado; District of Columbia; Minneapolis-St. Paul; Philadelphia; Richmond, Virginia; and Trenton, New Jersey. After reviewing the histories of the networks, conducts a comparative SWOT analysis, showing their common and unique strengths, weaknesses,…
Descriptors: Community Involvement, Higher Education, Institutional Evaluation, Participatory Research