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Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research

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Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research
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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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