FW: Community-based research

[Dorine Ruter [ETC Foundation]]

Dear all,

Please find below a message sent to the “Learning Participation Dialogue” discussion list. (Thanks for forwarding, Ann).

It may be of interest in relation to the Farmer-led Documentation work.

Best wishes,

 

Dorine Rüter
ETC Foundation

 

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From: waters...@web.de [mailto:waters...@web.de]
Sent: vrijdag 15 mei 2009 11:15
To: Dorine Ruter; Chesha Wettasinha
Subject: Community-based research

 

Dear Dorine and Chesha,

This may be of interest in connection with FLD - more arts-based than ICT-based forms of expression/documentation.

Cheers,

Ann

 

----- Original Message -----

From: Budd Hall

To: Learning Participation Dialogue

Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2009 9:59 PM

Subject: Re: Practicing negotiation, inclusion, ownership, integration as part of student work

 

Dear Colleagues,

Great fun to see the ideas flowing backwards and forward!  My name is Budd Hall.  I am the the Director of the Office of Community Based Research at the University of Victoria, in Victoria, British Columbia. I am teaching a course at the moment entitled: Community-Based Research: Creating Knowledge Through the Arts.  My students are mostly mature and experienced persons with from 5 – 30 years of experience in community settings. We are meeting face to face in a classroom with lots of room.  It is a course which aims to help people learn how to combine research approaches, particularly arts-based research methods, with advocacy, activism and policy change agendas.  We have a set of readings about Arts-based CBR and have 3 hour sessions where we get “hands-on” experiences with a variety of art forms: theatre, quilting, murals, poetry, song etc.  The goal for the course is to produce an arts-based CBR design for a real world context that they identify.

I have decided to offer this arts-based approach to CBR or Participatory Research as it has been my feeling in the past years as most of the writing done on these approaches is done by folks like me in Universities, that the methodological breadth by which knowledge is socially co-constructed in community is narrowing.  In other words PR, PAR or CBR is most often done by various forms of interviewing techniques.  Communities create stories and knowledge about themselves through song, poetry, novels, plays, etc etc...so I want to keep the arts end of the CBR discourse available to our students.

I would love to hear from people who have used arts-based research methods within the context of their research.  I would love to hear stories of how people have taught arts-based research, facilitation, intervention or advocacy in a classroom.

I would be pleased to share the syllabus of my course with anyone interested.

Warm best wishes,


Budd

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