Critical Participatory Inquiry
An Interdisciplinary Guide
- Meagan Call-Cummings - Johns Hopkins University, USA
- Giovanni P. Dazzo - University of Georgia, USA
- Melissa Hauber-Özer - University of Missouri - Columbia, USA
Critical Participatory Inquiry: An Interdisciplinary Guide brings to life key principles of this collaborative research method for students, practitioners, and research collectives. The authors encourage readers to uncover new possibilities in research guided by the emancipatory roots of CPI to deconstruct inequitable conditions and practices. Weaving together theoretical perspectives, a variety of tools for data collection and analysis, and numerous practical examples, the authors offer a complete picture of the research process from start to finish. This thoughtful and thorough book prepares readers to co-create knowledge effectively and ethically. By addressing the underlying principles common to a variety of action and participatory research methods, readers learn to design and carry out research with, not on, communities. With examples from public health, social work, psychology, education, criminal justice, conflict resolution, and more, the text is suited to a wide variety of graduate-level courses and better reflects the interdisciplinary nature of participatory research with collectives of all sizes and compositions.
This book is an authentic and accessible take on CPR. The authors voice, structure, flow and content are all spot on…. Overall, the book is both hard hitting and cuts no corners, WHILE being accessible.
This text provides a rich overview of the foundations of critical participatory research, allowing students to explore, examine, reflect, and take action with specific techniques, inquiry, and suggested activities in each chapter.
This text provides a great history of CPI and uses reflective exercises to help students critically examine how knowledge is created and why this is important for democratizing research.
This book considers research in a fresh way that places the community fully in the center. It challenges traditional research epistemology which can replicate the very systems of domination and exclusion we seek to break down.
Easy for students to read and digest.