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Rethinking Participatory Action Research: Alternative Forms and Voices in Collaborative Educational Methodologies Across the Americas 

Mon, April 20, 8:15 to 10:15am, Virtual Room

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As horizontal forms of research such as participatory action research (PAR) are embraced in education, how may local ideas about education in distinct educational contexts re-shape research projects and educational theory itself? This symposium considers how PAR methods are used, adapted, and contested across distinct geographic and population contexts, focusing on language and literacy initiatives across the Americas. Our collective aim is not to idealize PAR, but to explore, problematize, and embrace complications of projects in which researchers and community stakeholders are differently situated in terms of language, class, citizenship status, Indigeneity, and forms of social and economic precarity to consider how such complications may yield more productive research and practice.

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