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Antigonish and Activist Blogs
Canadian Community-Based
Research
Budd Hall, Director
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Research, University of Victoria
Frontier College - 1899
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Alfred Fitzpatrick - Justice for the
campmen
Labourer-Teachers
Reading camp association
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Research, University of Victoria
Women’s Institutes- 1909
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Adelaide Hoodless and Laura Rose,
Ontario Agricultural College
“…for months on end, I had no woman
to talk to, and my husband had no time
to even listen”
Mrs. Gordon Grant, “Today the
womenhood of not only B.C. but of all
the world is being awakened”, 1913
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Research, University of Victoria
Antigonish Movement-193040s
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St. Francis Xavier University
Fr. Jimmy Tompkins-Knowledge for the
People
Fr. Moses Coady
Coady International Institute
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Research, University of Victoria
Saskatchewan-1944
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Election of Tommy Douglas and the
CCF
Establishment of the Division of Adult
Education
Watson Tomkins, David Smith and
Murray Thomson
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Research, University of Victoria
The National Film Board
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John Grierson-1939 National Film
Board Act
“adult education is the vitalizing force in
any movement toward the realization of
social justice through democratic
methods” E.A. Corbett, 1939
Industrial Film Circuits - French and
English
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Research, University of Victoria
The Labour Movement
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Paid Educational Leave - CAW and
CUPW
Occupational Health and Safety
Donna Mergler and UQAM
D’arcy Martin -Steelworkers, CEP
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Research, University of Victoria
Participatory Research Project
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Roots in Tanzania - early 1970s-Budd
First World Assembly of Adult
Education-1976
dian marino, Ted Jackson, Deborah
Barndt, Greg Conchelos, Al Vigoda,
Linda Harasim
Big Trout Lake, Women Workers, Urban
Immigrants
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Research, University of Victoria
Participatory Research
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A three pronged activity that combines
social investigation, learning and action
Conceived in Tanzania, influenced by
Nyerere, Freire, Horton and Swantz
Gain support and visibility in
community-based groups and
international NGOs
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Research, University of Victoria
International Participatory
Research Network -1977
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To share ideas as equals based on our
own engagement in local political action
and struggles
Nodes in Tanzania, India,Chile,
Netherlands, USA, Canada, Caribbean
Convergence - Our journal of choice
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Research, University of Victoria
International PR Network
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Founded Centro El Canelo de Nos in ChileSociety for Participatory Research in Asia1981
Many publications - influence in health
promotion, sociology, dis/ability studies, social
work, adult education, Aboriginal studies,
environmental studies
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Research, University of Victoria
CBR and Popular Education
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Doris Marshall Institute - 1980s-90s
Catalyst Centre - 1990s-2000s
Influences within the Labour Movement
Elsewhere?
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Research, University of Victoria
Impact on the Univesities
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Service aux collectivities - Quebec,
1970s
Journal de Recherches et Actions
Communautaires (REAC) - 1980s
University of Montreal
Faculty of Environmental Studies, York
University
OISE - Transformative Learning Centre
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Research, University of Victoria
PR and Evaluation
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Elizabeth Whitmore, Dalhousie and
Carleton University
Yusuf Kassam and E.T. Jackson
Huge influence in the practices of
international development
IDRC- 1980s and 90s
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Research, University of Victoria
Ottawa-more than the CRD!
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Alex Sims - Ottawa Valley Retreat-60s
Art Stinson - Action Research/Social work
Alan Clarke - Algonquin Community
Development
PDF-Francoise Coupal, Helen Patterson
Fiona Mackenzie, Jacques Chevalier
Richard McClure, Brad Cousins, Peter
Levesque, U of O
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Research, University of Victoria
Research Councils and PR
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Community University Research
Alliances - SSHRC
Community Action for Health - Canadian
Institutes for Health Research
McConnell Family Foundation - support
for CEDTAP, Service Learning, Trent
University, St. F. Xavier
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Research, University of Victoria
The picture today
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Trent Centre for Community Education
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Wellesley Health Centre, Toronto
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Community-University Institute for Social Research,
U of Saskatchewan
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Community Intervention Projects, Trois Rivieres
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Centre for Urban Health Initiatives, Toronto
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Centre for Community Innovation, Carleton
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Strengths
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HIV/AIDS research
Aboriginal research
Dis/ability research
Environmental research
Anti-poverty
Homelessness
Women’s movement
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Research, University of Victoria
University Institutionalisation
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From projects to centres
From centres to institution-wide
structures
Community-University Expositions
University of Victoria Office of
Community-Based Research
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UVic Office of CBE
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Co-Chaired by VP Research and CEO
of United Way, Victoria
Base-budgeted by the University of
Victoria
An open door to the community
Active in Canadian Network
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Research, University of Victoria
A Canadian CBR Network?
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Build on CUEXPO contacts
Build on work of the Wellesley Health
Centre
Build on work of Health Promotion
Research Network
Build on CBRNO
And more?
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Research, University of Victoria
What now?
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CBR was born in community, remains
grounded through community and grows in
community
Building capacity in communities
Building community CBR institutions
Working with independent CB research
groups: CCPA, Pembina Institute, Caledon
Institute
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Research, University of Victoria
Promising areas of further
work
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Community control of researchLearning about intellectual property
rights
Learning about MOUs and Partnership
Agreements
Getting paid for our role as researchers
Linking local and global
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Research, University of Victoria
More stuff to think about
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Promoting community scholars in our
universities/colleges
Getting a voice on Granting Councils
Working together for more visibility
From web-sites to interactivity
Pod-casts and blogs
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Research, University of Victoria
Now for the real fun!
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Can we create knowledge as CB
Researchers the way we do in
community?
Where are the poems of CBR?
How do we best incorporate theatre?
What about women’s collective arts as
CBR?
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Research, University of Victoria
More fun
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Community Mapping/Green Mapping for
the masses!
Where are the lessons of the Popular
Education movement?
Can we sing peace into our
communities?
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Research, University of Victoria
Why?
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Because the world is not OK
Because we want to end poverty,
homeless, inequity and injustice
Because politics needs to be
reawakened
Because our educational institutions
need to be transformed
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Research, University of Victoria
And
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Because the seeds of the
transformation of our communities, our
lives, and our world can be found in our
practices, our activism and our
dreams…within this room…with each of
you…and all of us…today
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