Rooted in Relations: Tracing Connections Across Women of Color Methodologies to Reimagine Educational Justice

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

In an era of heightened erasure targeting multiple marginalized communities, “unforgetting” and research rooted in relations are political acts. This panel features four recent EdD graduates who reflect on their pathways to distinct women of color feminist methodologies, highlighting key insights, complexities, and learnings from these methodological approaches. From pláticas with Spanish-speaking families, testimonios with DACAmented teachers, healing circles with community college employees, to an anticolonial study of a critical teacher professional development intensive, panelists illustrate the way that methodology was not only central to their research process, but the knowledge they co-produced. Discussants will trace the connections, synthesizing key considerations for emergent researchers and faculty who mentor students whose qualitative methodologies are rooted in an ethics of relations.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Sheeva Sabati, California State University - Sacramento

Papers

• Chicana/Latina Feminist Pláticas: Method, Methodology, and Redefining Educational Leadership - Ana M. Segoviano, Twin Rivers Unified School District

• A Convivir: Practicing Solidarity as Researcher through Chicana/Latina Feminist Testimonios - Ana Farina de Ramirez, Vacaville Unified School District

• Braiding Culturally-Rooted Methodologies: Communal Healing, Freedom Dreaming Circles - LaToya Jackson, Sierra College

• “Born under the rising sign of social justice”: Becoming an Anticolonial Scholar-Educator - Freshta Gran Guzman, Fairfield-Suisun Unified School District

Session Organizer

• Sheeva Sabati, California State University - Sacramento

Discussants

• Chrissy Hernandez, California State University - Monterey Bay

• Sheeva Sabati, California State University - Sacramento