Community Development
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Community development, in its most general sense, is a field that focuses on improving the lives of people by changing the conditions through which they meet basic needs—food, clothing and shelter. Who should do what, how it should be done or what success looks like varies considerably based on who is being asked. Consequently, community development ...
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- Alinsky, Saul
- Argyris, Chris
- Bateson, Gregory
- Boal, Augusto
- Chataway, Cynthia Joy
- Dewey, John
- Emery, Fred
- Fals Borda, Orlando
- Freire, Paulo
- Gadamer, Hans-Georg
- Horton, Myles
- Kincheloe, Joe
- Lewin, Kurt
- marino, dian
- Martín-Baró, Ignacio
- Nielsen, Kurt Aagaard
- Noffke, Susan
- Schön, Donald
- Toulmin, Stephen
- Whyte, William Foote
- Wittgenstein, Ludwig
- Academic Discourse
- Agency
- Appreciative Intelligence
- Authenticity
- Bakhtinian Dialogism
- Bildung
- Community of Inquiry
- Communities of Practice
- Conscientization
- Critical Friend
- Critical Reference Group
- Dialogue
- Double-Loop Learning
- Empowerment
- Engaged Scholarship
- Hegemony
- Heteroglossia
- Heutagogy
- Identity
- Knowledge Democracy
- Metaphor
- Non-Indigenous Ally
- Organizational Culture
- Positionality
- Subalternity
- Sustainability
- Systems Thinking
- Tacit Knowledge
- Taylorism
- Technical Action Research
- Tempered Radical
- Transformative Learning
- Vivencia
- Voice
- Epistemology
- Experiential Knowing
- Experiential Learning
- Extended Epistemology
- Hawaiian Epistemology
- Māori Epistemology
- Practical Knowing
- Ubuntu
- Covenantal Ethics
- Ethics and Moral Decision-Making
- Feminist Ethics
- Indigenous Research Ethics and Practice
- Institutional Review Board
- Capacity Building
- Citizen Participation
- Co-Generative Learning
- Environmental Justice
- Knowledge Mobilization
- Local Self-Governance
- Social Accountability
- Social Justice
- Women's Political Empowerment
- Action Evaluation
- Advocacy and Inquiry
- Autobiography
- Bricolage Process
- Case Study
- Citizen Report Card
- Citizens' Juries
- Cognitive Mapping
- Collaborative Data Analysis
- Community Dialogue
- Community Mapping
- Computer-Based Instruction
- Concept Mapping
- Conflict Management
- Convergent Interviewing
- Critical Reflection
- Democratic Dialogue
- Descriptive Review
- Development Coalitions
- Dialogue Conferences
- Digital Storytelling
- Discourse Analysis
- Fishbone Diagram
- Focus Groups
- Interviews
- Journaling
- Listening Guide
- Microplanning
- Multi-Stakeholder Dialogue
- Narrative Inquiry
- Organizational Storytelling
- Participatory Monitoring
- Photovoice
- Research Circles
- Search Conference
- Social Audit
- Stakeholder Analysis
- Storytelling
- World Café, The
- Action Learning
- Action Science
- Anti-Oppression Research
- Appreciative Inquiry and Research Methodology
- Appreciative Inquiry and Sustainable Value Creation
- Arts-Based Action Research
- Asset-Based Community Development
- Citizen Science
- Classroom-Based Action Research
- Clinical Inquiry
- Collaborative Action Research
- Collaborative Developmental Action Inquiry
- Collaborative Management Research
- Community-Based Participatory Research
- Community-Based Research
- Comprehensive District Planning
- Co-Operative Inquiry
- Critical Action Learning
- Critical Participatory Action Research
- Critical Utopian Action Research
- Dialogic Inquiry
- Ethnography
- Evaluative Inquiry
- Feminist Participatory Action Research
- First Person Action Research
- Grounded Theory
- Indigenist Research
- Indigenous Research Methods
- Interactive Research
- Intervention Research in Management
- Large-Group Action Research
- Learning History
- Living Life as Inquiry
- Narrative
- Oral History
- Participatory Action Research
- Participatory Design Programming
- Participatory Governance
- Participatory Learning and Action
- Participatory Rapid Appraisal
- Participatory Rural Appraisal
- Participatory Theatre
- Participatory Urban Planning
- Performed Ethnography
- Practice Development
- Practitioner Inquiry
- Pragmatic Action Research
- Process Consultation
- Qualimetrics Intervention Research
- Quantitative Methods
- Reflective Practice
- Second Person Action Research
- Soft Systems Methodology
- Strategic Planning
- Strengths-Based Approach
- Systemic Action Research
- Systems Psychodynamics
- Theatre of the Oppressed
- Third Person Action Research
- Transpersonal Inquiry
- Work-Based Learning
- Youth Participatory Action Research
- Cycles of Action and Reflection
- Data Analysis
- Disseminating Action Research
- Gender Issues
- Generalizability
- Information and Communications Technology and Organizational Change
- Integrating Grounded Theory
- Intersubjectivity
- Meta-Methodology
- Mode 1 and Mode 2 Knowledge Production
- Quality
- Reliability
- Rigour
- Transferability
- Validity
- Antigonish Movement
- Centre for Action Research in Professional Practice
- Collaborative Action Research Network
- Community Design Centres
- Community-University Partnership Programme
- Community-Campus Partnerships for Health
- Community-University Research Partnerships
- Cornell Participatory Action Research Network
- Dig Where You Stand Movement
- Disabled People's Organizations
- Global Alliance for Community-Engaged Research
- Gonogobeshona
- Grameen Bank
- Highlander Research and Education Center
- Institute of Development Studies
- International Council for Adult Education
- International Participatory Research Network
- Jipemoyo Project
- LGBT
- Maya Women of Chajul
- Mondragón Co-Operatives
- Norwegian Industrial Democracy Movement
- Office of Community-Based Research
- Research Initiatives, Bangladesh
- Social Movement Learning Movement
- Society for Participatory Research in Asia
- Tavistock Institute
- Work Research Institute, The
- World Congresses of Action Research
- Action Turn, The
- Aesthetics
- Communitarianism
- Critical Constructivism
- Critical Pedagogy
- Critical Race Theory
- Critical Realism
- Frankfurt School
- Hermeneutics
- Ontology
- Phenomenology
- Philosophy of Science
- Phrónêsis
- Positive Organizational Scholarship and Appreciative Inquiry
- Praxeology
- Praxis
- Téchnê
- Action Anthropology
- Adult Education
- Agriculture and Ecological Integrity
- Community Development
- Criminal Justice Systems
- Design Research
- Development Action Research
- Educational Action Research
- Environment and Climate Change
- Evaluation
- Health Care
- Health Education
- Health Promotion
- Higher Education
- HIV Prevention and Support
- Human Rights
- Information Systems
- Insider Action Research
- Inter-Organizational Action Research
- Labour-Managed Firms
- New Product Development
- Nursing
- Operations Management
- Organization Development
- Participatory Disaster Management
- Project Management
- Regional Development
- Subaltern Studies
- Voluntary Sector
- Workers' Participation in Occupational Health and Safety
- Work-Family Interventions
- Dissertation Writing
- Facilitation
- Supervising Action Research Theses and Dissertations
- Teaching Action Researchers
- Christian Spirituality of Action
- Confucian Principles
- Islamic Practice
- Jewish Belief, Thought and Practice
- Karma Theory
- Liberation Theology
- Mindful Inquiry
- Theological Action Research
- Activity Theory
- Complexity Theory
- Constructivism
- Feminism
- Field Theory
- Humanism
- Liberation Psychology
- Living Theories
- Marxism
- Post-Colonial Theory
- Postmodernism
- Pragmatism
- Relational-Cultural Theory
- Social Constructionism
- Social Learning
- Socio-Technical Systems
- Symbolic Interactionism
- Theories of Action
- Asset Mapping
- Force Field Analysis
- Geographic Information Systems
- Ladder of Inference
- Ladder of Participation
- Learning Pathways Grid
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