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Title
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Community Design Circles: Co-designing Justice and Wellbeing in Family-Community-Research Partnerships
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Abstract/Description
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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.
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Date
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12/10/2018
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In publication
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Journal of Family Diversity in Education
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Volume
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3
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Issue
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2
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Pages
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38-63
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Language
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en
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Open access/full-text available
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Yes
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Peer reviewed
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Yes
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ISSN
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2325-6389
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Citation
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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
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Rights
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Copyright (c)
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