Visualizing Methodological Possibilities with and for Latinx Communities in Education

• In Event: Divison G VP Grad Student Early Career Poster Session

Abstract

Research has had a history of being extractive, harmful, and exploitative of racialized marginalized communities in educational research (Patel, 2022). Knowledge has been extracted from communities only to then be forgotten once the research process has concluded (Tuck et al., 2008). To move towards research that is based in renewal, remedy, and repair, our methodological approaches must center communities themselves. By engaging in methodological approaches that are aligned with communities' values, epistemological orientations, and commitments, educational researchers must move away from research that only continues to perpetuate harm for marginalized racialized communities, specifically Latinx/a/o communities (Domínguez & Cammarota, 2022; Hurtado, 2020). By leaning on arts-based, visual, and performance as methods to do research with and for Latinx/a/o communities educational research can begin the renewal, remedy, and repair process with communities they seek to do research with and for (de Los Ríos, 2017; González Ybarra & Marroquin, 2024). Along with addressing how to rectify the harms that have been caused to communities by the research process, this session hopes to illuminate current scholars who are utilizing critical visual methodological approaches alongside Latinx/a/o communities in education (Rodriguez Vega, 2023). By embracing arts-based, visual, and performance methods to conduct research with and for Latinx/a/o communities in education, educators are also embracing epistemological and theoretical foundations that are rooted in communities themselves (Hernandez, 2020; Revilla Tijerina, 2016). Engaging in these methodological approaches roots researchers in a history of scholarship that has embraced the weaving of prose with photography, art, and performance (Anzaldùa, 2009; Bhattacharya, 2013; Hurtado, 2020). This poster hopes to also embrace the contributions from disciplines outside of education that are also committed to working alongside Latinx communities (Sociology, Chicanx/a/o Studies, etc).

Author

• Gabriel Rodríguez Lemus, University of Texas at Austin