Community Design Circles: Co-designing Justice and Wellbeing in Family-Community-Research Partnerships

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Title: Community Design Circles: Co-designing Justice and Wellbeing in Family-Community-Research Partnerships
Abstract/Description: Researchers and practitioners of family engagement have long called for a move beyond conventional deficit-based family-school partnerships. In response, a burgeoning movement in the field has sought to identify and enact new forms of collaboration with nondominant families and communities, in terms of both change-making andthe process of research itself. In this article, we bridge the fields of family engagement and design-based research to conceptualize and illustrate a solidarity-driven process of partnership we undertook with families and communities of color, educators, and other researchers towards community-defined wellbeing and education justice. We offer community design circles as a methodological evolution aimed at reclaiming the central agentic role of families and communities of color in transforming educational research and practice. We illustrate three co-design dimensions with vignettes from a national-level participatory design research project called the Family Leadership Design Collaborative: 1) building from and with families’ and communities’ definitions of wellbeing and justice; 2) disrupting normative, asymmetrical dynamics; and 3) building capacity for social dreaming and changemaking.
Author/creator: Ishimaru, Ann M.; Rajendran, Aditi; Nolan, Charlene Montaño; Bang, Megan
Date: 12/10/2018
In publication: Journal of Family Diversity in Education
Volume: 3
Issue: 2
Pages: 38-63
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical
Language: en
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
Peer reviewed: en Yes
ISSN: 2325-6389
DOI: 10.53956/jfde.2018.133
URL: Official Journal Webpage (Journal of Family Diversity in Education); Full-text PDF Shared by Author (Academia.edu)
Citation: Ishimaru, A. M., Rajendran, A., Nolan, C. M., & Bang, M. (2018). Community Design Circles: Co-designing Justice and Wellbeing in Family-Community-Research Partnerships. Journal of Family Diversity in Education, 3(2), 38–63. https://doi.org/10.53956/jfde.2018.133
Cited in: Introducing Improvement Research in Education
Rights: Copyright (c)

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