When They Go Low, We Go High: Scholars of Color, Activism, and Educational Research in a Post-Truth Era

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When They Go Low, We Go High: Scholars of Color, Activism, and Educational Research in a Post-Truth Era

Abstract/Description

In the post-truth era, research from scholars of color will serve greater utility due to their propensity to speak truth to power, counter inaccurate narratives about marginalized populations, and challenge the politics that emerge during the post-truth era. This paper will highlight how scholars of color have centered race and social justice within their research, and provide examples of how the educational research community should counter the current post-truth era. We propose that scholars of color should be more prominent in our research agendas. This includes citing more of their work, supporting research agendas that positions ‘race’ at the center, and promoting critical scholarship that moves away from deficit language. If we are going to speak truth to power in today’s post-truth climate, then educational researchers must produce critical scholarship that challenges the lies and myths that permeate in a post-truth era.

Author/creator

Childs, Joshua

Johnson, Sarah J.

Date

2018

In publication

Education Policy Analysis Archives

Volume

26

Issue

146

Resource type

en Research/Scholarly Media

Background/context type

en Conceptual

Keywords

race

post-truth

social justice

IRE Approach/Concept

Justice

Racial Justice

ISSN

1068-2341

DOI

10.14507/epaa.26.3342

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Citation

Childs, J., & Johnson, S. (2018). When They Go Low, We Go High: Scholars of Color, Activism, and Educational Research in a Post-truth Era. Education Policy Analysis Archives, 26, 146–146. https://doi.org/10.14507/epaa.26.3342

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Critical Perspectives on the Contexts of Improvement Research in Education

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Open Access Resource (IRE)

Oxford Bibliographies [Special Series]: Continuous Improvement in Education

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