Participatory Ethnography: Co-Constructing Modalities With Court-Involved Youth to Disrupt the -Isms While Initiating Humanizing Research

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Six
  In Roundtable Session: Interrogations Across Participatory Approaches in Qualitative Methodology (Table 16)

Abstract

This paper shares how participatory ethnography could be an on-the-ground method to address the challenges of systemic injustice by including members from a community-based alternative program affected by institutional policies and decision making. It aims to examine participatory ethnographic modes as an alternative method to expanding the boundaries of traditional research approaches. By disrupting the cycles of boundaries that frame how knowledge is formed and shared, this paper will illustrate how court-involved youth can democratize and disseminate knowledge (e.g., music, short film, social media commentaries) in pursuit of public scholarship and social change in their communities.

Author

• Ahram Park, Teachers College, Columbia University
  Presenting Author