Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research

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Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research

Abstract/Description

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.

Author/creator

Asaah, Dee

Thakurta, Ankhi

Ghiso, María Paula

Campano, Gerald

Date

July 29, 2020

In publication

Oxford Bibliographies

Series

Oxford Bibliographies [Special Series]: Continuous Improvement in Education

Series editor

Peurach, Donald J.

Publisher

Oxford University Press

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Resource status/form

en Published Text

Scholarship genre

en Bibliography

IRE Approach/Concept

Community-Based Research

Practitioner Research/Inquiry

Justice

Participatory Action Research (PAR)

Feminism

Decolonial Theory

Critical Race Theory

Democracy

Equity

Open access/full-text available

en No

ISBN

978-0-19-975681-0

DOI

10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0253

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Other related resources/entities

Community-Based Partnerships: Advancing Epistemic Rights through Improvement Research

Citation

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

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Oxford Bibliographies [Special Series]: Continuous Improvement in Education

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