Challenging Extractive Epistemologies and Fostering Participatory Justice: Reflecting on More Than a Decade of Community-Based Research in Philadelphia

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium spotlights a long term research-practice partnership between several universities and a multilingual, multiethnic immigrant community in South Philadelphia as a means to foster dialogue about the practices, challenges, and promises of Community-Based Research in Education (CBRE). Attendees will consider how intergenerational, community-based research challenges hierarchies in university collaborations by foregrounding the questions of those most directly impacted by schooling, and how to foster equitable partnership dynamics while engaging in collaborative research. Members of the Philadelphia partnership – youth, families, community leaders, and university students and faculty – will lead the symposium, representing different institutional affiliations and stakeholders working towards educational change. Attendees will engage in dialogue about forging solidarity in the service of participatory justice in educational research and practice.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 5: Inquiry, Transformation, and Communities

Cosponsor

• Spotlight on Philadelphia and the Region

Chair

• Tamara Spencer, San Francisco State University

Papers

• Small Group 1: Navigating Co-Authorship and Research Dissemination as Intergenerational Educational Priorities - Jacqueline Winsch, University of Pennsylvania; Zion N. Sykes, Pennsylvania State University; Ericka Graciela Staufert-Reyes, University of Pennsylvania; Rita Gracián, University of Pennsylvania

• Small Group 2: Learning From and Alongside Community Grassroots Organizations: Arts as Coalitional Justice - Claire Wan, University of Pennsylvania; Andrea Lie, Youth Teams in Education Research; Maria Hernandez, CARE Initiative; Maria Paula Ghiso, Teachers College, Columbia University

• Small Group 3: Navigating Community-University Relationships in Research-Practice Partnerships - Gerald Campano, University of Pennsylvania; Olivia Vazquez Ponce, Belmont Charter High School; Daria Ward

Discussant

• Ann M. Ishimaru, University of Washington