Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research
Improvement initiatives in the field of education have historically aimed to reduce the gap between the aspirations of school reformers and the oppressive realities confronting students and families from non-dominant communities. Despite this ambition, scholars spearheading community-based research and practitioner inquiry suggest that such divides persist because the very groups underserved by educational systems are also marginalized by enduring power asymmetries between “the Academy” and “the field.” Consequently, their voices and perspectives remain under-represented in efforts to define, research, and pursue educational improvement. This bibliography presents a range of resources to help students, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers re-theorize the relationship between community perspectives and educational reform, centering the ways of being and knowing of those historically undervalued in the research enterprise. We gather pieces that are essential to understanding the theoretical and methodological underpinnings of community-based research as well as key texts addressing the role of improvement in education. In addition, we feature a range of interdisciplinary examples of school and community-based research from around the world that illustrate how knowledge producers have navigated power dynamics vis-à-vis their contexts, their positionalities, and the other complexities inherent to conducting inquiries within and alongside minoritized communities. These examples variously erode the boundary between “the researcher” and the “researched,” indicating ways in which educational improvement strategies may be co-constructed in ethical collaboration with those most chronically underserved.
Oxford Bibliographies [Special Series]: Continuous Improvement in Education
Community-Based Partnerships: Advancing Epistemic Rights through Improvement Research
Asaah, D., Thakurta, A., Ghiso, M. P., & Campano, G. (2020). Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research. Oxford Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0253
Mentoring in Research-Practice Partnerships: Toward Democratizing Expertise
2014 AERA Distinguished Lecture: Accelerating How We Learn to Improve
Organizing Research and Development at the Intersection of Learning, Implementation, and Design
What Is Improvement Science? Do We Need It in Education?
Ethical and Professional Norms in Community-Based Research
Doing Youth Participatory Action Research: Transforming Inquiry with Researchers, Educators, and Students
Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry With Youth and Communities
Participatory Action Research: Theory and Methods for Engaged Inquiry
Partnering with Immigrant Communities: Action Through Literacy
Critical Race Methodology: Counter-Storytelling as an Analytical Framework for Education Research
Con Respeto: Bridging the Distances Between Culturally Diverse Families and Schools: An Ethnographic Portrait
Community-Based Research and Higher Education: Principles and Practices
Involving Latino Families in Schools: Raising Student Achievement Through Home-School Partnerships
Just Research in Contentious Times: Widening the Methodological Imagination
Funds of Knowledge: Theorizing Practices in Households, Communities, and Classrooms
We Are Our Own Best Advocates: Latinx Immigrants Teaching And Learning For Their Rights
Acting Out! Combating Homophobia Through Teacher Activism
Participatory Action Research: Contributions to the Development of Practitioner Inquiry in Education
Teaching, Multimedia, and Mathematics: Investigations of Real Practice
At Last: Practitioner Inquiry and the Practice of Teaching: Some Thoughts on "Better"
Research and Evaluation With Community-Based Projects: Approaches, Considerations, and Strategies
Building Effective Community-University Partnerships: Are Universities Truly Ready?
Literacy, Education, and Identity among African-Americans: The Communal Nature of Learning
University-School-Community Partnerships for Youth Development and Democratic Renewal
Crossing Boundaries--Teaching and Learning with Urban Youth
Conducting a Participatory Community-Based Survey for a Community Health Intervention on Detroit's East Side
Making Known Differently: Engaging Visual Modalities as Spaces to Author New Selves
Multimodal Cosmopolitanism: Cultivating Belonging in Everyday Moments With Youth
Higher Education, Emerging Technologies, and Community Partnerships: Concepts, Models and Practices
Creating Together: Participatory, Community-Based, and Collaborative Arts Practices and Scholarship across Canada
Community-Based Research: Teaching for Community Impact
Learning and Teaching Community-Based Research: Linking Pedagogy to Practice
Practising Community-Based Participatory Research: Stories of Engagement, Empowerment, and Mobilization
Nurturing an Ethos of Community Engagement
In the Midst of Participatory Action Research Practices: Moving towards Decolonizing and Decolonial Praxis
The Routledge Handbook of Epistemic Injustice
Uneven Ground: Feminisms and Action Research
Reclaiming Indigenous Research in Higher Education
Research Methods for Social Justice and Equity in Education
Community-Based Qualitative Research: Approaches for Education and the Social Sciences
Knowledge and Engagement: Building Capacity for the Next Generation of Community Based Researchers
White Logic, White Methods: Racism and Methodology
Creating Welcoming Schools: A Practical Guide to Home-School Partners with Diverse Families
Literacy in the Welcoming Classroom: Creating Family-School Partnerships that Support Student Learning
Brokering Tareas: Mexican Immigrant Families Translanguaging Homework Literacies
Literacy, Place, and Pedagogies of Possibility
Echoes of Brown: Youth Documenting and Performing the Legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
Mi Padre: Mexican Immigrant Fathers and Their Children's Education
Immigrant Children in Transcultural Spaces: Language, Learning, and Love
Negotiating Critical Literacies with Young Children: 10th Anniversary Edition
Survey Design From the Ground Up: Collaboratively Creating the Toronto Teen Survey
Sexual Health Research for and with Urban Youth: The Toronto Teen Survey Story.
Knowledge, Democracy and Action: Community-University Research Partnerships in Global Perspectives
In from the Cold? Reflections on Participatory Research from 1970-2005
Knowledge Shared: Participatory Evaluation in Development Cooperation
Toward Participatory Communal Citizenship: Rendering Visible the Civic Teaching, Learning, and Actions of African Immigrant Youth and Young Adults
Higher Education and Community-based Research: Creating a Global Vision by Ronaldo Munck, Lorraine McIlrath, Budd Hall, and Rajesh Tandon (Eds.)
Despite Knowledge Democracy and Community-Based Participatory Action Research: Voices from the Global South and Excluded North Still Missing
Nurturing Community Empowerment: Participatory Decision Making and Community Based Problem Solving Using GIS
Nurtured by Knowledge: Learning to Do Participatory Action Research
Migrant Youth Identity Work in Transnational New Mediascape: A Case Study of What It Means to Be Korean for Migrant Adolescents
New Times for Multimodality? Confronting the Accountability Culture
Social Networking, Workplace, and Entertainment Literacies: The Out-of-School Literate Lives of Newcomer Latina/o Adolescents
Authored Assemblages in a Digital World: Illustrations of a Child’s Online Social, Critical and Semiotic Meaning-Making
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