Teaching Critical Qualitative and Humanizing Research Methods as a Site for Justice and Equity in Graduate Education

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Abstract

This paper will share insights about how three critically conscious and humanizing researchers with commitments to equity, justice, and liberation designed a qualitative research course in a way that provided graduate students with methods and methodologies for (1) engaging in liberatory, decolonial, and anti-oppressive educational research, and (2) building relationships of care and dignity with youth and communities. We believe our attention to graduate school education as a site for working toward justice and equity can repair past harm and renew more just and inclusive present and future educational possibilities.

Authors

• April D. Baker-Bell, University of Michigan

• Melissa Perez, University of Michigan

• Ebony Elizabeth Thomas, University of Michigan