Reciprocity and Collective Knowledge Production: The Nature of Platicando and Storying

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Abstract

This paper focuses on the ways in which a loving-relational, plática-based methodology opened the doors for two families to generate new knowledge among their families and with me, as a researcher, in co-collaboration with them. Through relationships that were intact before the research presented itself, we worked from a place of reciprocity and shared knowledge. Interactions with the families led to new interpretations of the methodologies, including the important construction of knowledge focusing on what the pláticas were called, who led them, and who interpreted them.

Author

• Larisa Callaway-Cole, Oklahoma State University - Stillwater