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Solidarity-Driven Codesign: Evolving Methodologies for Expanding Engagement with Familial & Community Expertise

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Solidarity-Driven Codesign: Evolving Methodologies for Expanding Engagement with Familial & Community Expertise

Alternate name

Chapter 16

Abstract/Description

This chapter argues for the need to expand recognition and engagement of youth, familial, and community expertise not only to improve but also to more fundamentally transform education and educational systems toward justice and community well-being. We offer solidarity-driven codesign as a methodological expansion to improvement-focused research (Ishimaru et al., 2018) as an alternative to technical-rational uses of data that evade historically based dynamics of power, race, and culture in practice. We provide examples from the work of the Family Leadership Design Collaborative to illustrate methodological approaches across four key principles: (1) begin with family and community ecologies; (2) disrupt normative power dynamics; (3) enact solidarities in change making; and (4) cultivate ongoing transformative possibilities. We conclude with a call to recognize and move beyond the color-evasive normative conception of expertise that privileges academic degrees over lived theories and experiences. Meeting this challenge will require researchers and practitioners alike to develop new capacities and processes to engender expansive forms of professional, community, family, and student learning, as well as transformative change in schools and broader educational systems.
[Quoted from p. 384]

Author/creator

Ishimaru, Ann M.
Bang, Megan

Date

2022

In publication

The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education See all items with this value

Editor

Peurach, Donald J.
Russell, Jennifer Lin
Cohen-Vogel, Lora
Penuel, William R.

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Resource type

Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

Published Text

Scholarship genre

Methodological
Synthesis/Overview

IRE Approach/Concept

Solidarity-Driven Co-Design
Community-Engaged Scholarship
Community-Based Design Research (CBDR)
Historicity
Co-Design
Participatory Design Research (PDR)
Design Circles
Research Community Collaborative
Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT)
Racial Equity
Educational Justice
Transformative Change/Systems Transformation
Family Engagement

Featured case/project

Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC)
CADRE

Primary national context

United States

Open access/full-text available

No

ISBN

978-1-5381-5234-8

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Is part of

Section IV: Designs, Tools, and Methods of Improvement Research in Education [Foundational Handbook]

Citation

Ishimaru, A. M., & Bang, M. (2022). Solidarity-driven Codesign: Evolving Methodologies for Expanding Engagement with Familial & Community Expertise. In D. J. Peurach, J. L. Russell, L. Cohen-Vogel, & W. R. Penuel (Eds.), The Foundational Handbook on Improvement Research in Education. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. https://rowman.com/ISBN/9781538152348/The-Foundational-Handbook-on-Improvement-Research-in-Education

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