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How Participatory Are Our Participatory Approaches? A “Pop-Up” Community of Praxis

Sat, April 13, 3:05 to 4:35pm, Philadelphia Marriott Downtown, Floor: Level 3, Room 308

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

This workshop emerged from a series of 6 convenings occurring over the past two years focused on questions of transforming early care and education systems–and, importantly, transformation according to whom? This session takes up that critical question by exploring “real-world” complexities of participatory inquiry. To do this we use 4 reflexive case examples, spanning onto-epistemological perspectives, to prompt collective, dialogic learning about stances and practices that are often spoken about conceptually, or in whispers and code, because the dominant discourse woven in academia, public policy, and philanthropy penalizes efforts to engage research (and policy) subjects’ subjectivities. This counter-discursive gathering space exists to connect atomized participatory efforts based upon the premise that “united we stand, divided we fall.”

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