Healing and Togetherness: Creating Indigenous Learning Experiences Through Community-Driven Design Research

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 4:20 pm Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Advancing Qualitative Methodologies: Centering Healing, Intersectionality, and Trauma-Informed Critical Insights for Social Change (Table 6)

Abstract

Scholars who employ humanizing research methodologies are also tasked with the labor of developing infrastructure and resources to support the mutually beneficial and reciprocal partnerships required. In response, we share our process of building a new “research interface” that invites participation from community partners and centers community needs. We present our yearlong partnership-building process guided by the research question: What are effective practices in conducting community-driven design research among partnerships with University researchers, K-12 and Tribal Educators, and Tribal Elders? Through a critical ethnographic approach, we identified practices that served as guides in our partnership-building process.. Insights from our findings contribute to current understandings for how community-driven design research practices can support humanizing and healing approaches to research.

Authors

• Breanne K. Litts, Utah State University

• Christina Morgan, Utah State University

• Dallas Haws, Utah State University

• Eileen Quintana, Nebo School District

• Analysa Allison, Nebo Title VI Indian Education

• Charlene Pete, Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation

• Clell Pete, Confederated Tribes of the Goshute Reservation

• Stuart Baggaley, Edith Bowen Laboratory School

• Jennifer Jenkins, Edith Bowen Laboratory School

• James Cawley, Centerstar