On Community Leadership: Stories About Collaboration in Action Research

This article provides an account of a 10‐year collaborative documentation of community leadership in an African American community on the South side of Chicago. The stories are oriented to several critical incidents in the life course of the collaboration. They are told from the perspectives of one...

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Published inAmerican journal of community psychology Vol. 33; no. 3-4; pp. 205 - 216
Main Authors Kelly, James G., Azelton, L. Sean, Lardon, Cecile, Mock, Lynne O., Tandon, S. Darius, Thomas, Mamie
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 01.06.2004
Blackwell Science Ltd
Subjects
Action Research
African Americans
Black American people
Black Community
Chicago
Chicago, Illinois
collaboration
Community
Community based action research
Community development
Community Health Services - organization & administration
community leadership
Community organizations
Community Research
community research partnerships
Cooperation
Cooperative Behavior
Health Services Research
Humans
Interagency collaboration
Interviews as Topic
Leadership
Partnerships
Program Development
research process
Universities
USA
Chicago
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Summary:This article provides an account of a 10‐year collaborative documentation of community leadership in an African American community on the South side of Chicago. The stories are oriented to several critical incidents in the life course of the collaboration. They are told from the perspectives of one university professor, four graduate students, and one community leader. Together they provide an account of how this research was shaped by the interactions of the research team with members of the community, how research questions emerged, methodologies were developed, ways of gathering data were tried and tested, and interpretations of data unfolded. Special attention is given to the ways in which the process and products of this research contributed to the community's own process of leadership development. The stories also discuss the various roles participants in this collaboration played both in the academic arena and in the community, and how they experienced gender, race, nationality, and social status.
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ISSN:0091-0562
1573-2770
DOI:10.1023/B:AJCP.0000027006.48815.5a