Front porch conversations: Methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset-based community development
Complex public problems are resistant to top-down, technical solutions creating the need for new and innovative ways of approaching community. In response, many practitioners working in community development organisations have embraced community strengths- or asset-based approaches to communi...
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Complex public problems are resistant to top-down, technical solutions creating the need for new and innovative ways of approaching community. In response, many practitioners working in community development organisations have embraced community strengths- or asset-based approaches to community development, including Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). Similarly, those scholars committed to social change have started to include action research/learning and participatory approaches to their research design, including Participatory Action Research (PAR). This article describes a qualitative method that was developed by a non-profit practitioner working for a local Habitat for Humanity affiliate and a researcher from a land-grant university in Manhattan, Kansas to operationalise a neighbourhood revitalisation framework with a community conversation series called Front Porch Conversations. The qualitative method developed by the university-nonprofit partnership –called the Front Porch Development Procedure – serves as both a PAR-informed mode of inquiry and an ABCD-informed mode of development. This method provides an example of how university-community partnerships can approach changemaking in novel ways by considering ABCD and PAR approaches.
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| spelling | doaj.art-82f57c2564ec4e8db3f67d9fee8a8d272023-12-23T04:46:04ZengUTS ePRESSGateways1836-33932023-12-0116210.5130/ijcre.v16i2.8670Front porch conversations: Methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset-based community development Josh Brewer0Brandon Kliewer{'en_US': 'Kansas State University'} Complex public problems are resistant to top-down, technical solutions creating the need for new and innovative ways of approaching community. In response, many practitioners working in community development organisations have embraced community strengths- or asset-based approaches to community development, including Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). Similarly, those scholars committed to social change have started to include action research/learning and participatory approaches to their research design, including Participatory Action Research (PAR). This article describes a qualitative method that was developed by a non-profit practitioner working for a local Habitat for Humanity affiliate and a researcher from a land-grant university in Manhattan, Kansas to operationalise a neighbourhood revitalisation framework with a community conversation series called Front Porch Conversations. The qualitative method developed by the university-nonprofit partnership –called the Front Porch Development Procedure – serves as both a PAR-informed mode of inquiry and an ABCD-informed mode of development. This method provides an example of how university-community partnerships can approach changemaking in novel ways by considering ABCD and PAR approaches. https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre/article/view/8670Asset Based Community DevelopmentParticipatory Action ResearchAction LearningLeadership as PracticeNeighborhood RevitalizationHabitat for Humanity, International |
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| title | Front porch conversations: Methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset-based community development |
| title_full | Front porch conversations: Methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset-based community development |
| title_fullStr | Front porch conversations: Methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset-based community development |
| title_full_unstemmed | Front porch conversations: Methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset-based community development |
| title_short | Front porch conversations: Methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset-based community development |
| title_sort | front porch conversations methodological innovations to participatory action research and asset based community development |
| topic | Asset Based Community Development Participatory Action Research Action Learning Leadership as Practice Neighborhood Revitalization Habitat for Humanity, International |
| url | https://epress.lib.uts.edu.au/journals/index.php/ijcre/article/view/8670 |
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