At the Crossroads: Enacting Anticolonial Responsibility in Social Studies Scholarship Through Community-Centered Participatory Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Social studies educational research, and educational research more broadly, faces a methodological crossroads. In addition to neglecting increasing calls for scholars to close the research/theory and practice gap, settler colonial academic structures inhibit innovation and transformation and continue patterns of colonizing research. This symposium critically examines the conventional and predominant research paradigms that shape social studies educational research and education. Four researchers from various contexts contextualize our experiences with and examples of participatory, anticolonial, and Indigenous research, offering guidance for scholars pursuing anticolonial relational scholarship and practice with Indigenous communities, teachers, and students.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Social Studies Research

Chair

• Leilani Sabzalian, University of Oregon

Papers

• Mapping the Landscape of Participatory Research - Christine Rogers Stanton, Montana State University

• "Who (and What) Is Driving?" Indigenous Leadership, Teachers, and Scholars - Rachel Talbert, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Stay in Your Lane! The Theory-Practice Binary - Bradford R. Hall, Blackfeet Community College

• Where Are We Going? Reimagining Educational Research as a Journey With Community - Jenni Conrad, Oregon State University - Cascades