Reimagining Sustainable Learning Futures: Developing Teachers' Research Capacity Toward Culturally Sustaining Humanizing Practices

• In Event: Imagining Sustainable Futures in Education Across Transnational, Ethnocultural, and Language Communities

Abstract

This paper is about teachers learning to engage with epistemological sound research as a means to develop agency to advance culturally sustaining humanizing practices. Using comparative education theory and the UNESCO SDGs--the most influential contemporary worldwide movement in education--as a point of departure, teachers thoroughly research a global topic connected to social justice with application to their local context. Over the 1.5-year M.Ed. all-online program, teachers take courses on theoretical framing, research design, and data collection methods, review the literature, develop a proposal, and implement an action research project. This paper describes the approach that supports teachers’ learning to engage in authoritative social-justice-inquiry-based research and presents formative and summative evidence of such culturally and socially transformative learning.

Author

• Maria Teresa Tatto, Arizona State University
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