Methodological Recommendations for Critical Study in Black Education

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Abstract

To dispute deficit views and challenge the binary of “good” or “bad” students, the authors used research spaces as places that reflected their radical ideations of what Black education could be–if our schools were in a context that valued Black epistemology. Integrating critical methodological considerations into research centered on promoting racial justice is a vital step for education researchers. To do this, the authors envisioned a radically different future of education, where schools protect, value, and support Black ways of knowing and being. We share two methodologies, congregation meetings and hermeneutic phenomenology, to give recommendations for method-making in a way that honors Black life.

Authors

• Janelle Grant-Ashbaugh, Grand Valley State University

• Brooke Harris-Thomas, University of Michigan - Dearborn