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Understanding the challenge of community-research partnerships in rural communities
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Fischer, S and Woodroffe, J and Kilpatrick, S and Barnes, N, Understanding the challenge of community-research partnerships in rural communities, Australian Association for Research in Education Conference 2021, 30 November - 02 December, online (2021) [Conference Extract]
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Abstract
Researchers will often experience vastly different research outcomes when researching with
rural communities, despite having the same research design and embedding understandings for
the contextualised and nuanced nature of such projects. In this paper we explore what might
influence and produce these differences through one research project conducted across three
different rural communities. The project drew on a community based participatory research
(CBPR) methodology specifically to allow for the development of responsive partnerships that
encouraged communities to adapt the research to suit each community context. We argue that
the capacity of communities to effectively engage in meaningful partnerships might be
explained (and further explored) through an approach that seeks to understand the community
in terms of boundary crossers, community culture/maturity and the capacity of the community
to engage an internal/external community orientation. To do this we have conceptualise a
framework that takes into consideration these elements and can be applied in a number of ways:
firstly, to designing effective research approaches within a CBPR approach with rural
communities; secondly, to engage as effectively as possible with these communities in a
research context; and finally, to determine where communities are positioned in relation to
their capacity for development and change.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Conference Extract |
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| Keywords: | career education, educational aspiration, community-based participatory research, disadvantaged communities |
| Research Division: | Education |
| Research Group: | Education policy, sociology and philosophy |
| Research Field: | Sociology of education |
| Objective Division: | Education and Training |
| Objective Group: | Schools and learning environments |
| Objective Field: | Equity and access to education |
| UTAS Author: | Fischer, S (Dr Sarah Fischer) |
| UTAS Author: | Woodroffe, J (Dr Jessica Woodroffe) |
| UTAS Author: | Kilpatrick, S (Professor Sue Kilpatrick) |
| UTAS Author: | Barnes, N (Dr Nicoli Barnes) |
| ID Code: | 148075 |
| Year Published: | 2021 |
| Deposited By: | Oceans and Cryosphere |
| Deposited On: | 2021-12-02 |
| Last Modified: | 2021-12-02 |
| Downloads: | 0 |
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