Centering Professionals of Color in Examining Systems Change in Environmental Education Organizations

• In Event: Critical Approaches With/in Multimethod and Mixed-Methods Research

Abstract

There is a growing call for researchers to center justice and equity as an ethical and methodological imperative (Held, 2019). This paper explores what it takes to design and implement a systems change study that aims to utilize humanizing, values-based research practices and center the voices of professionals of color? This round table will explore the methodological decisions and moves of a research team and an evaluation team as a part of an NSF-funded project, Working Towards Racial Equity (WTRE), which aims to transform the field of environmental education (EE) by building the capacity of EE organizations to enact racially just systems change. We argue that centering the voices of EE professionals is critical to examining systems change work.

Authors

• Valeria Fike Romero, University of California - Berkeley
  Presenting Author

• Kelly E. Grindstaff, Lawrence Hall of Science
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• Michael P. Arnold
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• Inti Chomsky
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• Aujanee S. Young, University of California - Berkeley
  Presenting Author

• Zoe Bell
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