Innovating Educational Research Methods to Disrupt Oppressive Systems and Promote Healing

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Although research has been used to reproduce harm to marginalized communities, it can also be used as a tool to empower and repair. This session explores and illuminates cutting-edge educational research methodologies that challenge and disrupt systemic oppression to foster healing within school contexts. By bringing together experts from across the methodological spectrum who employ innovative approaches, the session will showcase how novel research methods can unveil, critique, and ultimately transform inequitable educational practices and structures. The focus will be on participatory, decolonizing, and critical methodologies that empower marginalized communities and promote equity, justice, and healing in educational contexts. Indeed, the acts of searching, learning, building, and knowing become levers to healing longstanding harms from colonial abuses.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 6: Inquiry in the Social Context of Education

Chair

• Adam J. Alvarez, Texas A&M University

Papers

• A Methodological Vehicle for Healing-Oriented Youth Participatory Action Research - Addison Duane, Sacramento State University; Adam J. Alvarez, Texas A&M University

• Healing Methodological Wounds: A Critical Race Feminista Quantitative Praxis - Nichole M. Garcia, Rutgers University

• The Undefining Margin: Repairing, Remedying, Renewing Healing-Centered Qualitative Inquiry - Kakali Bhattacharya, University of Florida