課程資訊
課程名稱
社會工作的社區參與研究
Community-Based Participatory Research in Social Work 
開課學期
104-2 
授課對象
社會科學院  社會工作學研究所  
授課教師
周鎮忠 
課號
SW7047 
課程識別碼
330EM2540 
班次
 
學分
全/半年
半年 
必/選修
選修 
上課時間
 
上課地點
 
備註
本課程以英語授課。上課時間於六月密集三週之6/3.4;17-18;24-25五下午六整天
限本系所學生(含輔系、雙修生) 且 限碩士班以上
總人數上限:12人 
 
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課程概述

Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) and related methodologies—such as Participatory Action Research and Community-Engaged Research—have received growing attention in the helping professions such as social work, public health, education, nursing, medicine, and other fields over the past few decades. As defined by the Kellogg Foundation, CBPR is a “collaborative approach to research that equitably involves all partners in the research process and recognizes the unique strengths that each brings. CBPR begins with a research topic of importance to the community with the aim of combining knowledge and action for social change to improve community health and eliminate health disparities.” Not a set of methods, CBPR is an overall orientation to research which fundamentally changes the relationship between researchers and researched. 

課程目標
The goal of this seminar is to weave together the theory and practice of CBPR through lectures, breakout discussions, interactive activities, case study examples, reflections on readings, and reflection on one’s own research experience. Participants will gain an appreciation of CBPR strengths and challenges, as well as learn hands-on skills necessary for participating effectively in CBPR projects. Both academic discussions and experiential exercises will reflect a commitment to co-teaching and co-learning.
Objectives: By the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• Describe the major principles of CBPR.
• Identify issues related to building and maintaining partnerships.
• Identify and analyze the role of gender and class in CBPR.
• Identify the issues of power (including university-community relationships) and empowerment as concepts important for CBPR practice.
• Describe and understand the concept of cultural humility.
• Understand CBPR approaches to generating study designs, collecting data, and performing data analysis in collaboration with community research partners.
• Identify how to carry out collaborative intervention development, implementation and evaluation with diverse populations.
Describe how CBPR can be used fruitfully to work toward policy change.  
課程要求
To receive credit for this course, you must actively participate in the class, do all the readings for the small group discussions, and complete all the assignments.

Final course grades will be weighted as follows:
1) Course participation (20% of grade). This includes attendance, being fully prepared with the readings, and active interaction in group discussion. If you miss a session, please turn in a one page critique of an article (or comparison of two readings) from that day.
2) Summary Paper (25%): A 3-5 page final summary on your core learnings from the course. Take several themes from the lectures, class discussions, readings, or from your reflections and write a concise summary of lessons learned and questions that you still have. What has triggered your thinking about the facilitators/benefits and challenges of doing CBPR?
3) Research Proposal (55%): Using the CBPR proposal guidance as specified in Karen Hacker’s text (on page 85), develop a 8-10 page proposal that addresses a community problem (or problems) pertaining to Taiwan.

Assignments should be typed and submit in MS-Word file format (no PDF please) to the instructor electronically.  
預期每週課後學習時數
 
Office Hours
 
指定閱讀
Session 1: Introduction to CBPR; Building and Maintaining Partnerships
Objectives: To present course expectations and share expectations for those taking the course. To provide an overview of community-based research in general and community-based participatory research in particular. To introduce the basic guiding principles of CBPR.

Required Readings:
• Text: Hacker: Chapter 1, Principles of Community-Based Participatory Research
• Chow, J., & Crowe, K. (2005). Community-based research and methods in community practice. In Marie Weil (Ed.) Handbook of community practice (pp. 604-619). Thousand Oaks: Sage Publications.
Optional Readings:
• Recommended Text, Chapter 1: Minkler and Wallerstein, Introduction to Community Based Participatory Research.
• Recommended Text, Chapter 3: Israel, BA et al., Critical issues in developing and following principles of CBPR.

Session 2: Community and power in CBPR
Objectives: To understand the definition of community. To identify issues related to building and maintaining partnerships, including the role of culture, class, gender, power in research partnerships. To identify strategies and steps for effective partnerships, including cultural humility. To identify issues of structural agreements between partners, including IRB issues.

Required Readings:
• Text: Hacker: Chapter 2, Defining the Community and Power Relationships
• Gaventa, J. and Cornwall, A. Challenging the boundaries of the possible: Participation, knowledge, and power. Institute of Development Studies, 37(6), 2006, 122-128.
Optional Readings:
• Recommended Text, Chapter 6: Stoeckler, R. Are academics irrelevant? Approaches and roles for scholars in community based participatory research.
• Recommended Text, Chapter 8: Clements-Nolle and Bachrach, CBPR with a hidden population: The transgender community health project, A decade later.

Session 3: Collaborative CBPR Methods: Study Design, Data Collection, and Data Analysis with Communities
Objectives: To explore using CBPR approaches to generate study designs and to collect data in collaboration with community research partners

Required Readings:
• Text: Hacker: Chapter 3, Methods for CBPR
• Dong, XQ. et.al, (2010). Assessing the health needs of Chinese older adults: Findings from a community-based participatory research study in Chicago’s Chinatown. Journal of Aging Research, Volume 2010, Article ID 124246, doi:10.4061/2010/124246
Optional Readings:
• Recommended Text, Chapter 16: Cashman S, et al. Analyzing and interpreting findings with communities.
• LaVeaux, D., Christopher, S., Contextualizing CBPR: Key principles of CBPR meet the indigenous research context. Pimatisiwin: A Journal of Aboriginal and Indigenous Community Health 7(1) 2009, 1-25.

Session 4: Stages of CBPR project: Collaborative Intervention Development with Diverse Populations
Objectives: To identify intervention issues, challenges and opportunities in CBPR research projects. To reflect on how to integrate culturally supported and empirically supported evidence/theories.

Required Readings:
• Text: Hacker: Chapter 4, CBPR—Step by Step
• Doyle, M., & Timonen, V. (2009). Lessons from a community-based participatory research project: Older people's and researchers' reflections. Research on Aging. 32(2) 244-263. DOI: 10.1177/0164027509351477
Optional Readings:
• Peabody, Carolyn. (2013) Using photovoice as a tool to engage social work students in social justice. Journal of Teaching in Social Work, 33:3, 251-265, DOI:10.1080/08841233.2013.795922
• Wallerstein, N., Duran, B. Community-based participatory research contributions to intervention research: The intersection of science and practice to improve health equity. American Journal of Public Health, Supplement; S1, 2010, 100, S40-S46.

Session 5: Collaborative CBPR: Implementation, interpretation, & evaluation
Objectives: To identify strategies to work effectively with community partners. To reflect on how CBPR contributes to community ownership of data analysis and interpretation. To evaluate and validate the findings of CBPR projects through dissemination.

Required Readings:
• Cashman, S. B., et.al. (2008). The power and the promise: Working with communities to analyze data, interpret findings, and get to outcomes. American Journal of Public Health, 98(8), 1407-1417.
• Morisky, D. E., Malow, R. M., Tiglao, T. V., Lyu, S. Y., Vissman, A. T., & Rhodes, S. D. (2010). Reducing sexual risk among Filipina female bar workers: Effects of a CBPR-developed structural and network intervention. AIDS education and prevention: official publication of the International Society for AIDS Education, 22(4), 371-385.
Optional Readings:
• Recommended Text, Chapter 21: Wallerstein et al, What predicts outcomes in Community Based Participatory Research?
• Cousins, J. B. and Whitmore, E. Framing participatory evaluation. In E. Whitmore (Ed.) Understanding and Practicing Participatory Evaluation. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; 1998.

Session 6: The Intersection of CBPR and Policy Change
Objectives: To address how CBPR can contribute to policy change and policy environment changes. To develop community capacity building through CBPR projects.

Required Readings:
• Text: Hacker: Chapter 5, Translating Research into Practice; Chapter 6, Ethical Considerations in CBPR; Chapter 7, Conclusion
• Salimi, Y., et.al. (2012). Is community-based participatory research (CBPR) useful? A systematic review on papers in a decade. International journal of preventive medicine, 3(6), 386–393.
Optional Readings:
• Recommended Text, Chapter 17: Themba M, Minkler M. and Freudenberg N: The role of policy in CBPR.
Recommended Text, Chapter 19: Lee, P.T. et al : Participatory action research with hotel room cleaners: From collaborative study to the bargaining table.
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參考書目
Required Readings:
Karen Hacker. Community-Based Participatory Research. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage,
2013.
Reading Packet, which will be posted on NTU website.


Other Recommended Readings:
Meredith Minkler and Nina Wallerstein (editors), Community Based Participatory
Research for Health: From Process to Outcomes, 2nd edition, San Francisco,
Jossey-Bass, 2008.
 
評量方式
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No.
項目
百分比
說明
1. 
Course participation 
20% 
This includes attendance, being fully prepared with the readings, and active interaction in group discussion. If you miss a session, please turn in a one page critique of an article (or comparison of two readings) from that day.  
2. 
Summary Paper 
25% 
A 3-5 page final summary on your core learnings from the course. Take several themes from the lectures, class discussions, readings, or from your reflections and write a concise summary of lessons learned and questions that you still have. What has triggered your thinking about the facilitators/benefits and challenges of doing CBPR?  
3. 
Research Proposal 
55% 
Using the CBPR proposal guidance as specified in Karen Hacker’s text (on page 85), develop a 8-10 page proposal that addresses a community problem (or problems) pertaining to Taiwan.  
 
課程進度
週次
日期
單元主題
第15-1週
06/03  Session 1: Introduction to CBPR; Building and Maintaining Partnerships

Objectives: To present course expectations and share expectations for those taking the course. To provide an overview of community-based research in general and community-based participatory research in particular. To introduce the basic guiding principles of CBPR.
 
第15-2週
06/04  Session 2: Community and power in CBPR

Objectives: To understand the definition of community. To identify issues related to building and maintaining partnerships, including the role of culture, class, gender, power in research partnerships. To identify strategies and steps for effective partnerships, including cultural humility. To identify issues of structural agreements between partners, including IRB issues.
 
第16-1週
06/17  Session 3: Collaborative CBPR Methods: Study Design, Data Collection, and Data Analysis with Communities

Objectives: To explore using CBPR approaches to generate study designs and to collect data in collaboration with community research partners
 
第16-2週
06/18  Session 4: Stages of CBPR project: Collaborative Intervention Development with Diverse Populations

Objectives: To identify intervention issues, challenges and opportunities in CBPR research projects. To reflect on how to integrate culturally supported and empirically supported evidence/theories.
 
第17-1週
06/24  Session 5: Collaborative CBPR: Implementation, interpretation, & evaluation

Objectives: To identify strategies to work effectively with community partners. To reflect on how CBPR contributes to community ownership of data analysis and interpretation. To evaluate and validate the findings of CBPR projects through dissemination.
 
第17-2週
06/25  Session 6: The Intersection of CBPR and Policy Change

Objectives: To address how CBPR can contribute to policy change and policy environment changes. To develop community capacity building through CBPR projects.