Celebrating the Toolkit II: Community-Based Culturally Informed Collaborative Research Projects in Education - Q&A

Celebrating the Toolkit II: Community-Based Culturally Informed Collaborative Research Projects in Education 

CHAIRS: LECOMPTE, Margaret D. (UC-Boulder) and LUDWIG, Sheryl A. (Denver U) 

JUDD, Joel (SUU) Teacher Research: Empowering Social and Academic Change 

AGUILERA-BLACK BEAR, Dorothy (Independent), JUDD, Joel (SUU), VAN DER WEY, Dolores (SFU), MARTINEZ, Clara A. (Naco Rsch Inst), and YAZZIE-MINTZ, Tarajean (American Indian Coll Fund) Youth-PAR and Community Change for Native American Youth and School Leaders 

VAN DER WEY, Dolores (SFU) Building Success for First Nations Female Graduate Students: A Community-Embedded Indigenous Education M.ED Program 

MARTINEZ, Clara A. (Naco Rsch Inst) Native American Educational Self-Determination and Food Sovereignty  YAZZIE-MINTZ, Tarajean (American Indian Coll Fund) From Places of Strength: Cultivating Early Learning Opportunities from within Native Communities

 

ABSTRACT:

LECOMPTE, Margaret D. (UC-Boulder) and LUDWIG, Sheryl A. (Denver U) Celebrating the Toolkit II Community-Based Culturally Informed Collaborative Research Projects in Education. While schools quintessentially are located in communities, they often reflect White, middle class mainstream culture, rather than the diverse and non-European-American populations they serve. The Ethnographer’s Toolkit outlines strategies for building multidisciplinary and inter-sectoral partnerships among public schools, marginalized communities, funding agencies, and community agencies to improve the success of students who otherwise would struggle educationally.  These papers highlight such partnerships, as implemented by ethnographically-informed teachers together with community activists, institutional leaders, local elders, and key informants. They can be implemented in any community; these projects were initiated by educators and others in language minority and Native American communities.

Session took place in Vancouver, B.C. Canada at the 76th Annual Meeting of the Society for Applied Anthropology, March 29 - April 2, 2016.