Popular Arts and Education in Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR): On the Subtle Craft of Developing and Enhancing Channels for Clear Conversations among CBPR Partners

摘要: Community-Based Participatory Research (CBPR) is a methodology hinged on flexible power relationships and unobstructed flow of expert local knowledge among project partners. Success in CBPR depends authentic dialogue, free information, trust. But accurate, unmediated, timely channels communication, while key to successful CBPR, are difficult create maintain. As participatory methodologies evolve, popular arts education techniques have increasingly taken center stage as culturally fluent, bidirectional modalities for conveying building responsive promoting policy, enhancing the effectiveness grassroots organizing.