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Ethnographic Research for Repair, Liberation, and Community Empowerment in Early Childhood Settings

Sun, April 27, 9:50 to 11:20am MDT (9:50 to 11:20am MDT), The Colorado Convention Center, Floor: Meeting Room Level, Room 610

Session Type: Symposium

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Scholarship concerned with repair, liberation, and community empowerment has sought to disrupt power dynamics in ethnographic research, doing work with instead of on communities to offer more complete representations of the communities centered while rejecting hegemonic, unilateral, extractive, appropriative epistemologies and methodologies. Drawing on multiple studies with young children, families, and their communities, this audience interactive session will illuminate tensions or difficult moments in qualitative research which emerge from traditional researcher/participant power hierarchies, methods that do not always leave room to take children and families seriously. The four papers will explore methods, theories, and approaches which see these moments as opportunities to repair relationships with and between children, families, and educators and to honor them fully.

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