Moving from “This Is How It’s Always Been” to “This Is How It Must Be”: Lessons from Participatory Design Research

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Title: Moving from “This Is How It’s Always Been” to “This Is How It Must Be”: Lessons from Participatory Design Research
Abstract/Description: What follows are reflections on our experiences conducting participatory design research (PDR) as members of the Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC). We share the ways in which PDR influenced us personally and professionally and the lessons we learned throughout the process. Our aim is to provide fellow researchers with an idea of how they may reimagine their relationships with one another and communities in unordinary (and hopefully in ordinary!) political times. First, we describe background about the FLDC, design circles, and the local context of our work. Then, we share who we are and discuss how our experience with PDR made us reconsider what transformative social change at the individual, relational, and collective levels look like. We close by discussing the need to consider how the structures and cultures that we have come to take for granted in our institutions need to be upended in order to make this alternate idea of research work.; [Excerpted from p. 2]
Author/creator: Alcantara, Vianna; Geller, Joanna D.
Date: April 2017
At conference: AERA Annual Meeting
Publisher: Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC)
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Presentation/Poster; en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Empirical; en Methodological
IRE Approach/Concept: Participatory Design Research (PDR); Design Circles; Family Engagement
Featured case/project: Family Leadership Design Collaborative (FLDC)
Open access/full-text available: en Yes
URL: Open Access Report PDF
Alternate version: Designing for Culturally Responsive Family Engagement: The Seeds of a Participatory Action Research Project
Other related resources/entities: American Educational Research Association (AERA)
Citation: Alcantara, V., & Geller, J. (2017). Moving from “This Is How It’s Always Been” to “This Is How It Must Be”: Lessons from Participatory Design Research (p. 23). Family Leadership Design Collaborative.
Cited in: Solidarity-Driven Codesign: Evolving Methodologies for Expanding Engagement with Familial & Community Expertise

Item sets: Open Access Resource (IRE)

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