Moving from “This Is How It’s Always Been” to “This Is How It Must Be”: Lessons from Participatory Design Research
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Moving from “This Is How It’s Always Been” to “This Is How It Must Be”: Lessons from Participatory Design Research
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What follows are reflections on our experiences conducting participatory design research (PDR)
as members of the Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC). We share the ways in which PDR
influenced us personally and professionally and the lessons we learned throughout the process. Our aim is
to provide fellow researchers with an idea of how they may reimagine their relationships with one another
and communities in unordinary (and hopefully in ordinary!) political times. First, we describe background
about the FLDC, design circles, and the local context of our work. Then, we share who we are and discuss
how our experience with PDR made us reconsider what transformative social change at the individual,
relational, and collective levels look like. We close by discussing the need to consider how the structures
and cultures that we have come to take for granted in our institutions need to be upended in order to make
this alternate idea of research work.
as members of the Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC). We share the ways in which PDR
influenced us personally and professionally and the lessons we learned throughout the process. Our aim is
to provide fellow researchers with an idea of how they may reimagine their relationships with one another
and communities in unordinary (and hopefully in ordinary!) political times. First, we describe background
about the FLDC, design circles, and the local context of our work. Then, we share who we are and discuss
how our experience with PDR made us reconsider what transformative social change at the individual,
relational, and collective levels look like. We close by discussing the need to consider how the structures
and cultures that we have come to take for granted in our institutions need to be upended in order to make
this alternate idea of research work.
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AERA Annual Meeting
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Alcantara, V., & Geller, J. (2017). Moving from “This Is How It’s Always Been” to “This Is How It Must Be”: Lessons from Participatory Design Research (p. 23). Family Leadership Design Collaborative.
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| Title | Alternate label | Class |
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 Designing for Culturally Responsive Family Engagement: The Seeds of a Participatory Action Research Project |
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