Humanizing Research: Decolonizing Qualitative Inquiry With Youth and Communities

by Django Paris, Maisha T. Winn (Editor)

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.

Genres: Education, Research

304 pages, Paperback

First published February 26, 2013

About the author

Django Paris is the James A. and Cherry A. Banks Professor of Multicultural Education and director of the Banks Center for Educational Justice at the University of Washington. His research and teaching focus on understanding and sustaining languages, literacies, and lifeways among youth of color in the context of demographic and social change. Along with H. Samy Alim, he is the coeditor of Culturally Sustaining Pedagogies: Teaching and Learning for Justice in a Changing World.

Reviews

[Dorothy · Rating 5 out of 5]

The perfect text for those entering ethnographic research