Engaging With Teacher and Student Participatory Action Research in a Seventh-Grade Science Classroom

• In Event: 18.059 - MTCC Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: 18.059-12 - New Directions in Participatory Action Research and Evaluation

Abstract

This study contributes toward expanding the possibilities for utilizing the process of teacher and student participatory action research (tsPAR: Author, 2015) and Critical Race Praxis for Educational Research (CRP-Ed) (Blinded & Author, 2015) by examining students’ and teacher’s relationships while working in constricting institutional contexts. As a result, this study highlights the ways in which our seventh¬ grade classroom community centered and honored our collective process toward personal and social transformation. The findings demonstrated the ways in which building a beloved community supported students and teacher toward co-creating equitable and humanizing schooling conditions rooted in love and agency, with a collective commitment toward social-eco justice.

Author

• Annie S. Adamian, California State University - Chico