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Reclaiming the Possibilities of Connectivity: Relationality in Education Research and Action

Sun, April 19, 2:15 to 3:45pm, Virtual Room

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As educational researchers aspire to engage stakeholders, we must consider the nature of collaborative knowledge production and collective action. Scholars across the field of education have applied participatory action (Fals-Borda, 2006), design-based (Bang & Vossoughi, 2016) and critical ethnographic (McCarty, Nicholas, Wyman, 2012) research methods to increase the power of their work. Black feminist (McKittrick, 2006) and Indigenous scholars (Brayboy et al., 2012) challenge us to consider the essential qualities of collaboration beyond the formation of our research questions and the instruments of data collection. The principle of relationality (Wilson, 2008) offers an organizing principle for how we reclaim connectivity in educational research. This symposium presents scholarship that elucidates the complexity and potential of centering relationality in educational research.

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