Humanizing Research

Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry With Youth and Communities

Django Paris, Maisha T. Winn

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781452225395
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781483322117
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Social Science Research & Methodology
• Index: Social Sciences

*Winner of the 2015 Outstanding Book Award from the American Educational Research Association's Qualitative Research Special Interest Group (SIG).*

What does it mean to conduct research for justice with youth and communities who are marginalized by systems of inequality based on race, ethnicity, sexuality, citizenship status, gender, and other categories of difference? In this collection, editors Django Paris and Maisha Winn have selected essays written by top scholars in education on humanizing approaches to qualitative and ethnographic inquiry with youth and their communities. Vignettes, portraits, narratives, personal and collaborative explorations, photographs, and additional data excerpts bring the findings to life for a better understanding of how to use research for positive social change.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Acknowledgements
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Detailed Contents
• Preface: To Humanize Research
• Acknowledgements
• About the Editors
• Part I Trust, Feeling, and Change What We Learn, What We Share, What We Do
• 1 Too Close to the Work/There is Nothing Right Now
• 2 The Space between Listening and Storying: Foundations for Projects in Humanization
• 3 Humanizing Research with LGBTQ Youth through Dialogic Communication, Consciousness Raising, and Action
• Part II Navigating Institutions and Communities as Participatory Activist Researchers: Tensions, Possibilities, and Transformations
• 4 Humanizing Research in Dehumanizing Spaces: The Challenges and Opportunities of Conducting Participatory Action Research with Youth in Schools
• 5 Activist Ethnography with Indigenous Youth: Lessons from Humanizing Research on Language and Education
• 6 Critical Media Ethnography: Researching Youth Media
• Part III The Complex Nature of Power, Relationships, and Responsibilities
• 7 La Carta de Responsabilidad: The Problem of Departure
• 8 Doing Double Dutch Methodology: Playing with the Practice of Participant Observer
• 9 Revisiting the Keres Study to Envision the Future: Engaging Indigenous Pueblo Youth in Intergenerational Humanizing Research and Praxis
• Part IV Revisiting Old Conversations toward New Approaches in Humanizing Research
• 10 Why I Study Culture, and Why It Matters: Humanizing Ethnographies in Social Science Research
• 11 Critical for Whom?: Theoretical and Methodological Dilemmas in Critical Approaches to Language Research
• 12 R-Words: Refusing Research
• Epilogue: Reflecting forward on Humanizing Approaches
• Contributors
• Author Index
• Index