Participatory Ethnographic Research: Contextualizing the Work and Reimagining a Just System for/With Court-Involved Youth

• In Event: Critical Approaches to Democratic Education

Abstract

Through our identity as educational researchers and citizens, our responsibilities include respectfully listening, understanding, and considering the multiple perspectives across partisan lines and avert polarization. As such, this paper aims to address how participatory ethnographic research offers educational researchers a pathway to [re]see how our scholarship can be produced, disseminated, and implemented to affect change for an equitable and just society. The artifacts and reflections about participatory ethnographic research was collected and analyzed in collaboration with young people ages 13-15 years old from an alternative-to-detention afterschool program, who engaged as co-researchers, over the course of five years.

Author

• Ahram Park, Teachers College, Columbia University