Chap 2: Theoretical, Historical, and Practice Roots of CBPR Flashcards
(29 cards)
What role does reflexivity play in CBPR?
Research and practice benefit from the opportunity for professional, collective, and personal reflexivity on how and where research produces change.
True of False: People living with inequalities are not positioned to influence change in CBPR.
The challenge is how to use research to co-construct knowledge with those living with inequalities who may be best positioned to influence change.
How can research partners show greater sensitivity to communities perceptions, needs, and unique circumstances?
Communities have begun to demand that research show greater sensitivity to communities’ perceptions, needs, and unique circumstances, bringing to attention the meaning of relationships, codes of conduct, trust, and mutually beneficial partnerships.
True of False: Health disparities research within a participatory approach does not provide greater external validity.
Health disparities research within a participatory approach have the advantage of providing greater external validity, challenging standardized research protocols, and promoting responsible research conduct.
What kinds of things affect values and communication in research practices that may create distrust?
CBPR helps us to see how race and racism, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, nativity, gender identity, sexual orientation, abelism, and so on affect core values and communication that constitute research practices with implications for mistrust.
How does including those who are often “researched” strengthen research outcomes?
Broadening the team of researchers to include those who are often “researched” strengthens research processes and contributes to more nuanced, complex and authentic research outcomes.
What are the different possible outcomes of excellence in engagement in CBPR?
Excellence of engagement in CBPR can help deliver high-quality research, co-construct knowledge, mobilize impact-oriented evidence, and build enduring partnerships.
How did Paulo Freire help transform the research relationship?
Paulo Freire helped transform the research relationship from communities as “objects of study” to community members “participating in the inquiry”.
True or False: CBPR research is seen as neutral and objective.
Rather than seeing research as neutral and objective, participatory researchers adopt commitments to social justice and that people can transform their conditions through their own actions.
What is an example of decolonizing research in public health/medical discourses?
An example of decolonizing research acknowledged how public health and medical discourses have often “deauthorized” traditional ways of knowing for the purpose of controlling Indigenous/Native peoples.
What is essential to ask when thinking about participation?
When thinking about participation asking where the power lies is essential.
If all research invovles participants, what makes research participatory? What role does power play?
View of community often conceal power relations and mask bias. Community decision making can be overriden by “experts”, group dynamics may reinfoce individuals already in power, and research methods may dictate only one level of inquiry.
What is the implication of domination by the “systems” world, eg academia? What is essential in CPBR to make this more transparent?
The relationship between academic researchers and community members recognizes the systems world with the life world of families and cultural traditions. As the life world becomes dominated by the systems world, people increasingly see themselves as objects. Even within CPBR outside researchers may become part of this dynamic. The practice between researchers and community members remains complex and involves making power and positionality transparent.
Why are shared guidelines important in supporting participatory partnerships?
Researchers offer an important contribution with access to funding and particular expertise to offer, while communities are increasingly making more decisions about what research is done and who will do it. Shared guidelines/agreements and paying attention to ethical issues are critical to participatory partnerships.
Why is discussing who represents the community a key issue in participation?
Who represents the community is a key issue in participation. Service providers may or may not represent the community members. CBPR takes the view that community members themselves should participate in ongoing collaborative advisory and decision making structures.
True or False: CPBR views the dialogue and what is being researched as socially constructed.
Positivist research paradigms consider knowledge creation to be neutral and value free. CBPR often draws from reflexive and interpretative inquiry in the dialogue between all researchers/participants and what is being researched as socially constructed.
How do Indigenous researchers view knowledge?
Indigenous researchers see knoweldge for decolonizing, healing, and mobilizing.
What does a culture-centered approach challenge?
A culture-centered approach challenges ways that dominant culture (re)produces marginalization and promotes community agency and knowledge for transforming inequitable conditions (knowledge democracy).
How is knowledge democracy embedded with CBPR and participatory approaches?
Knowledge democracy is embedded within CBPR and participatory approaches with the recognition of multiple ways of knowing such as narrative, songs, theatre, and using knoweldge as a tool for social action and democracy, shared through open-access venues.
How can power show up in CBPR?
Power is a product of competing agendas, with lack of participation seen as a function of choice. Hidden power in which people and issues are kept from open discussion through bias/social norms. Power can also show up as excluding grievances by preventing conflicts or community ideas from surfacing.
In what ways are elements of power exercised?
Elements of power can be exercised through direct control, microaggressions, or indirect language that shapes people’s opportunities to participate fully. Emancipatory CBPR uncovers mechanisms of control, biases, and internalized representations as strategies for change.
How did Foucault think about knowledge and power?
Foucault shared that knowledge symbolizes power. Repressive power can be used in overly technical research language that may inhibit community response. Or research knowledge can enable communities to advocate for change.
True or False: Commitment and trust may ebb and flow in CBPR
In CBPR, relationships between researchers require commitment and trust, which may ebb and flow depending upon contexts, events, and power relations.
How is cultural humility a strategy for mutual learning?
A strategy for mutual learning is the practice of cultural humility in which all partners are reflexive about their positions of power, whether by race-ethnicity, education, or community status and are willing to negotiate these dynamics.
