Toward Projects in Humanization: Research on Co-Creating and Sustaining Dialogic Relationships

In this article, we argue that co-constructing knowledge, co-creating relationships, and exchanging stones are central to educational research. Relying on humanizing and Indigenous research methods to locate relational interactions in educational research allows us to engage in transformative praxis...

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Published in:American educational research journal 2017-04, Vol.54 (1_suppl), p.373S-394S
Main Authors: San Pedro, Timothy, Kinloch, Valerie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Education
Educational Research
Equal Education
Humanization
Indigenous Knowledge
Interpersonal Relationship
Knowledge
Listening
Research Methodology
Story Telling
Vignettes
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Summary:In this article, we argue that co-constructing knowledge, co-creating relationships, and exchanging stones are central to educational research. Relying on humanizing and Indigenous research methods to locate relational interactions in educational research allows us to engage in transformative praxis andstorying, or Projects in Humanization (PiH). We contend that PiH focus on the creation and sustenance of relationships; the human capacity to listen to, story with, and care about each other; and the establishment of more inclusive, interconnected, and decolonizing methodologies that disrupt systemic inequalities found in Western constructs of educational research. More specifically, in this article, we rely on research vignettes to argue for a necessary commitment that researchers must have to sustain, extend, and revitalize the richness of the languages, literacies, histories, cultures, and stories of and by those with whom they work.
ISSN:0002-8312
1935-1011
DOI:10.3102/0002831216671210