Community Engaged Learning Resources
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Click here for information on different sites and organizations across North America that are involved in Community Engaged Learning.
General Resources
New! Check out this excellent article from Randy Stoecker and Mary Beckman for insights on how to shift our perceptions of "community" in Community Engaged Learning projects and encounters: "Making Higher Education Civic Engagement Matter in the Community."
- Community Service Learning:
Below are links to the major CSL resources in Canada and the United States:
Canadian Association for Community Service-Learning: a national network of CSL practitioners and researchers. CACSL encourages community service-learning in Canada through providing information, resources, networking opportunities and advocacy.
www.communityservicelearning.ca
Campus Compact: a U.S. national coalition of more than 950 college and university presidents - representing some 5 million students - dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education.
National Service Learning Clearinghouse: this major U.S. Learn and Serve America resource supports the service-learning community in higher education, kindergarten through grade twelve, community-based initiatives and tribal programs, as well as all others interested in strengthening schools and communities using service-learning techniques and methodologies.
Michigan Journal of Community Service Learning: a U.S. national, peer-reviewed journal consisting of articles written by faculty and service-learning educators on research, theory, pedagogy, and issues pertinent to the service-learning community.
www.umich.edu/~mjcsl
- Community Based Research:
A Snapshot of Community Based Research in Canada – Wellesley Institute
Faculty and Staff Resources
Link to resources at the Research Shop, College of Social and Applied Human Sciences, University of Guelph
Guide to Researcher and Knowledge – User Collaboration in Health Research
This guide specifically outlines the importance of discussing the results of CBR research with those who participated in the research and will be using the results. The guide also offers helpful advice on how to find partners for CBR projects, and provides examples of barriers & solutions to participating in Community Based Research.
This evidence-based curriculum is intended as a tool for community-institutional partnerships that are using or planning to use a CBPR approach to improving health. It can be used by partnerships that are just forming as well as mature partnerships.
Reflection Tools for Faculty – Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
What is Experiential Education - Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
Roles and Responsibilities - Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
Creating Useful Forms and Documents - Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
The National CBR Networking Initiative was funded by a grant from the Corporation for National & Community Service (Learn & Serve America) to support the development of high-quality community-based research programs and to create a national networking structure to assist and connect practitioners. Lots of great resources here around assessment, course support, institutionalizing CBR, funding etc.
Introduction to CSL for Instructors--CSL at the University of Alberta
Democratizing Knowledge: Research Experiments Based on University-Community Partnerships
Patti H. Clayton – Critical Review and Evaluation Tools
Statistical Primer - Trent Centre for Community-Based Learning
Reflective Practice - University of BC Learning Exchange
Ethics in Helping – Canadian Alliance for Community-Service Learning
Community Group Resources
Community Tool Box Work Group for Community Health and Development-University of Kansas.
The Community Tool Box is full of resources that are practical and accessible for organizations that are new to Community Based Research and those who are already established. The Tool Box also provides case study examples and checklists to review with your organization or co-workers.
Community-Based Participatory Research Assessing the Evidence
This study is based primarily on peer reviewed articles and studies. The objective of the article is to assess the success of collaborative relationships and their ability to conduct research once they have established the relationship.
The National CBR Networking Initiative was funded by a grant from the Corporation for National & Community Service (Learn & Serve America) to support the development of high-quality community-based research programs and to create a national networking structure to assist and connect practitioners. Lots of great resources here around assessment, course support, institutionalizing CBR, funding etc.
Community Based Research Initiative at University of Victoria
This is a downloadable copy of the report compiled by the University of Victoria Task Force on Community-Based Research. The report is based on consultation with U-Vic Community Members, staff, students, community, and aboriginal communities.
Community Standards for Service Learning Brochure--University of Wisconsin
Research for the People, by the People - Richard Sclove
Recruiting to Ongoing Volunteer Opportunities - Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning:
Participatory Action Research can be complicated – Bruce Wallace
Important resource to read because it talks about romanticizing participatory research, and the danger this can cause for the communities involved. The author identifies several questions that your research group and involved community organizations should ask before pursuing participatory research, such as identifying what will be a research drain on the community involved. The article ends with the author I think we should be asking “how can we get researchers to participate in communities?”
The National CBR Networking Initiative was funded by a grant from the Corporation for National & Community Service (Learn & Serve America) to support the development of high-quality community-based research programs and to create a national networking structure to assist and connect practitioners. Lots of great resources here around assessment, course support, institutionalizing CBR, funding etc.
How to Communicate with Your Supervisor. Canadian Alliance for Community Service Learning
Ethics in Helping – Canadian Alliance for Community-Service Learning
Reflection for Students – Canadian Alliance for Community-Service Learning
What is Experiential Education--Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
Roles and Responsibilities--Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
Creating Useful Forms and Documents - Canadian Alliance for Community Service-Learning
Democratizing Knowledge: Research Experiments Based on University-Community Partnerships
Trent Centre for Community-Based Learning – Statistical Primer
University of BC Learning Exchange – Reflective Practice
Resources and Documents