TY - JOUR
T1 - On community leadership
T2 - Stories about collaboration in action research
AU - Kelly, James G.
AU - Azelton, L. Scan
AU - Lardon, Cecile
AU - Mock, Lynne O.
AU - Tandon, S. Darius
AU - Thomas, Mamie
N1 - Funding Information:
Appreciation is expressed to Kathy Nasstrom for her review and comments on the manuscript . Steve Stelzner gave the authors editorial and substantive suggestions. Thanks to Ken Rolling for his support of the work by the Woods Fund of Chicago and for his continuing investment in the documentation.
PY - 2004/6
Y1 - 2004/6
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Collaboration
KW - Community leadership
KW - Community research partnerships
KW - Research process
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U2 - 10.1023/B:AJCP.0000027006.48815.5a
DO - 10.1023/B:AJCP.0000027006.48815.5a
M3 - Review article
C2 - 15212179
AN - SCOPUS:3242765280
SN - 0091-0562
VL - 33
SP - 205
EP - 216
JO - American Journal of Community Psychology
JF - American Journal of Community Psychology
IS - 3-4
ER -