Disrupting Damage-Centered Research: Community Listening Exchanges as a Reciprocal Research Tool in a Gentrifying City

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session 7
  In Roundtable Session: Critical Methodologies: Ethnodrama, Storying, and Listening

Abstract

This paper presentation offers a response to Tuck’s (2009) charge to “institute a moratorium on damage centered research to reformulate the ways research is framed and conducted and to reimagine how findings might be used by, for, and with communities” (p. 409). In this presentation, a teacher research collective offers a research method grounded in the Black Intellectual Tradition that honors the lives, experiences, and voices of historically disenfranchised communities experiencing the displacement of gentrification and urban education reform.

Authors

• Thais Council, University of Kentucky

• Shae Earls, Georgia State University