Community as Intellectual Spaces: Developing Collaborative, Dialogic, and Transformative Research Communities

• In Event: Community Partners as Co-Educators: The Value of Community

Abstract

This on-going study investigates community-based models of research and learning and how these can be used to develop reciprocal university-community partnerships and help universities and academic researchers rethink their role within community settings. The project focuses on a few particular projects that rely on participatory and/or collaborative processes and premise local knowledge as a way of addressing specific issues, and that take place in diverse contexts (in Taiwan, Puerto Rico, and Chicago). This project uses these case studies to identify productive elements of research and learning projects and initiatives that bring together grassroots organizations and academic institutions of higher learning and thus inform a variety of university-community partnership efforts, such as engaged research projects, service-learning initiatives, and community-based research studies.

Author

• Laura Ruth Johnson, Northern Illinois University