Black Holes, Graffiti, and Horror Stories: Examining Restorying Through Critical Inquiry in Community Partnership

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Friday 11:40 am Four Seasons Ballroom 2-3
  In Roundtable Session: Rethinking School and Community Partnership (Table 9)

Abstract

Abstract: This project is a result of a community partnership between a local organization and our university in which six researchers, one professor and five Ph.D. students, led K-12 students in critical inquiry projects. As the students learned how to take up critical inquiry and selected their own research topics, they were encouraged to restory their projects in a way that represented their cultures and values. Findings showed that the students each took up restorying in the form of bending, counternarratives, and alternate histories. This project shows the power of restorying and critical inquiry as tools for textual justice as students can write themselves into spaces where they may have been previously underrepresented.

Authors

• Kelsey Leigh Stokes, Baylor University

• Kelly C Johnston, Baylor University