Empowerment for Whom? Empowerment for What? Lessons from a Participatory Action Research Project

Autor/inn/en	Call-Cummings, Meagan; James, Christine
Titel	Empowerment for Whom? Empowerment for What? Lessons from a Participatory Action Research Project
Quelle	In: Networks: An Online Journal for Teacher Research, 17 (2015) 2, Artikel 4 (10 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2470-6353
Schlagwörter	Hispanic American Students; High School Students; Student Empowerment; Participatory Research; Action Research; Teacher Student Relationship; Photography; Theater Arts; Interviews; Racial Bias; Idaho + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Hispanic; Hispanic Americans; Student; Students; Hispanoamerikaner; Schüler; Schülerin; Studentin; High school; High schools; Oberschule; Studienberechtigung; Forschungstätigkeit; Projektforschung; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Fotografie; Theaterwissenschaft; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Racial discrimination; Rassismus
Abstract	This article sets forth the process through which I, an educator of over 20 years, my research mentor, and my 52 Latino/a students answered questions that were important to us through participatory action research. I start the process by asking if and how I am empowering my students, and they start their own parallel process by asking about their relationships with their White teachers. By engaging in various data collection approaches, including Boal's (1985) Theatre of the Oppressed and Photovoice, we are all able to answer these questions. I learn that as a teacher I do not empower students; they empower themselves. As we conduct the research together I watch them and see the processes of empowerment the students go through for myself. I learn how as an educator I can create empowering situations and opportunities my students can take advantage of in the future. In parallel experiences, the students learn that they have always had a voice, but this project helps them discover--and use--the voices they have always had. Overall, our group finds that empowerment takes place in spaces and moments of mutual, active inquiry, where individual voices can be raised to re-imagine what can and should be taking place within our schools. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	New Prairie Press, Kansas State University Libraries. 137 Hale Library, Manhattan, KS 66506. e-mail: nppress@ksu.edu; Web site: http://newprairiepress.org
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01