11.020 - PDC11: Researchers' Learning Exchange: Interrogating Research Through Historical and Socio-Cultural Lenses (Day 1)

Session Type: Professional Development Course

Abstract

This two-day professional learning course focuses on a deeper understanding of interrogating our research practices as activist researchers. Specifically, the Researchers’ Learning Exchange offers experiential and interactive approaches foundational to creating and implementing activist research. By emphasizing the researcher role as agent of change, the learning exchange process honors learning as a dynamic social process that engages participants in critical conversations to fuse the boundary between researchers and traditional subjects of research. By examining their identity as researchers as engaging others and as agents of change, researchers are better able to understand their role as a part of the complex ecology of self, in organizations and in the community. In turn, the researcher constructs a complex understanding of the roles of co-participants in the research process. The research design fully integrates the responsibility of addressing issues of inequities and fostering a sense of possibility that honors and builds on the assets of researchers and co-researchers., as well.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development and Training Committee

Instructors

• Lynda Tredway, Institute for Educational Leadership

• Miguel Angel Guajardo, Texas State University - San Marcos

• Francisco Guajardo, The University of Texas - Rio Grande Valley

• Matthew C. Militello, East Carolina University

• Gretchen Givens Generett, Duquesne University

• Christopher A. Janson, University of North Florida