Research as Restorative Practice: Reparative and Recognitive Approaches to Critical Participatory Inquiry

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

How can we (re)imagine a healing and restorative space for research? In this symposium, the presenters contribute toward this question by reviewing examples of their community-engaged inquiry, which includes conducting research alongside Indigenous communities, Black womxn teachers, and youth as co-researchers. We speak to the importance of grounding our inquiry in a restorative worldview where restoration and healing become a focal point, especially when working alongside communities whose knowledge, dignity, and humanity continue to be questioned and oppressed through cultural forms of hegemony. This session builds on work we have conducted over several years, where we have sought to understand how we can draw on various theories of justice to repair past injustices and to reimagine new futures alongside communities.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Meagan Call-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University

Papers

• How Does it Feel to be My Research Problem?: Moving Toward An Agenda for Restorative Validity - Giovanni P. Dazzo, University of Georgia

• Healing Methodologies: Co-creating Healing Spaces With Black Womxn Teachers Through Critical Participatory Inquiry - Jaminque L. Adams, University of Georgia

• Curating Healing and Restorative Spaces for Inquiry: YPAR Through Epistemologies and Ontologies of Resistance - Giovanni P. Dazzo, University of Georgia; Ashley Williams, University of Georgia; Carlyncia McDowell, University of Georgia

• Opportunities for Collective Action: Reorienting Our Justice Signposts Toward Restoration, Reclamation, And Reparation - Giovanni P. Dazzo, University of Georgia; Meagan Call-Cummings, Johns Hopkins University; Barbara Dennis, Indiana University

Discussant

• Barbara Dennis, Indiana University