Disrupting and Divesting Whiteness Through Culturally Disruptive YPAR (Youth Participatory Action Research): A Conversation Opening

• In Event: Sunday Roundtable Session 11:25 am
  In Roundtable Session: Turning Whiteness Against Whiteness (Table 24)

Abstract

As part of a larger YPAR project on the growth an ethnic studies program in a suburban school system in the Pacific Northwest, the recognition of the degree to which hegemonic whiteness was shaping our work led us to adapt San Pedro’s Culturally Disruptive Pedagogy into our project. This process paper introduces the actions we took towards disrupting and divesting whiteness we had internalized and its impact on the co-researchers’ chosen research methods. The fields of Critical White Studies, Settler Colonialism, and Culturally Sustaining Pedagogy guided the project. Our project sheds light on the possibilities and opportunity the addition of Culturally Disruptive Pedagogy can have for YPAR.

Author

• Jeff Stone, Mukilteo School District