Caine, Vera <br/><br/>
Essentials of community-based research / 
Vera Caine and Judy Mill; with contributions by Randy Jackson and Renee Masching. 
 - Walnut Creek, California :  Left Coast Press, Inc.,  2016. 
 - 159 pages ;  23 cm. 
<br/><br/> Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>Section I: History and Current Practice -- Chapter 1: What Is Community-based Research? -- Defining Community-based Research -- Who Is the Community? What Is Participation? -- Historical Roots -- Ontological and Epistemological Underpinnings -- Chapter 2: Community-based Research: Defining the Principles -- Principles of Community-based Research -- Is Community-based Research Appropriate for All Types of Research? -- Challenges and Opportunities -- Section II: The Practice of Community-based Research -- Chapter 3: From Theory to Practice -- Challenging Lifestyles -- Deline Uranium Research -- Reflections -- Chapter 4: Research Design -- Methodological Plurality -- Political and Social Influences on Methodological Decisions -- Rigor in Community-based Research -- Chapter 5: Developing Principles for Research Collaboration -- Background -- Brief History of Research Guidelines -- Developing Principles for Research Collaboration -- Background -- Brief History of Research Guidelines -- Developing Principles for Research Collaboration -- Looking Back and Moving Forward -- Section III: Contexts and Challenges -- Chapter 6: Raising Ethical Questions -- Managing Dual Roles -- Insider-Outsider Tensions -- Working with Ethics Review Boards -- Investment of Time -- The Cyclical, Iterative Nature of Community-based Research -- Resource and Funding Challenges -- Dissemination of Findings -- Ensuring Ethical Community-based Research -- Chapter 7: Considering Capacity -- Cultural Humility -- Readiness -- Sustainability: Ongoing Commitment -- Chapter 8: Working with Diverse Populations: A Focus on Aboriginal Communities in Canada -- Background -- A Negative History of Research in the Aboriginal Community -- Community-based Research with Aboriginal Communities -- Decolonizing and Indigenous Methodologies with Community-based Research -- Community-based Research Partnerships -- Ways Forward -- Section IV: Future Challenges -- Chapter 9: Enacting Social Justice -- Key Stakeholders and Gatekeepers in the Community and Academy -- Challenges to and Possibilities for Democratic Leadership -- Challenging Oppression -- Research for Social Justice, or Socially Just Research? -- Focus on Change -- Chapter 10: Ways Forward -- Returning to the Roots of Community-based Research -- Contemplating Notions of Praxis -- Criteria for Judging Quality -- Development of Jointly Agreed-upon Research Principles -- Proving Success, Shifting Inequities 
<br/><br/> Community-based research (CBR) is the most commonly used method for serving community needs and affecting change through authentic, ethical, and meaningful social research. In this brief introduction of CBR, the real-world approach of noted experts Vera Caine and Judy Mill helps novice researchers understand the promise and perils of engaging in this research tradition. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9781629581118 
<br/><br/><label>Source: </label> Institutional Fund 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Community-based social service--Research--Methodology.<br/>Community health services--Research--Methodology.<br/>Community life--Research--Methodology.<br/>Social sciences--Methodology.