A research method that involves the creation of maps through various approaches. Intended to decentralize power and allow the research to be participant driven.
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Authentic Research, Teaching, Events, and Assessments for Economic Prosperity: The STEAM of Responsive Education
Cassandra R. Decker (CRD Impact, LLC, USA & Spark Growth, LLC, USA) and Merci Decker (Wayne State University, USA)
Copyright: © 2022
|Pages: 29
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8032-5.ch014
Abstract
Responsive research serves as an alternative platform to address issues of human rights violations, ACEs, structural violence, and systemic poverty in particular as it relates to educational opportunities. This chapter identifies four step-by-step processes that can be used when conducting community-led research and education. Activist anthropology, studying up, studying through, and financial implications of debt foreground earlier efforts made by anthropologists to use their research as a way to examine how policy decisions shape cultural practices and impact the livelihood of specific communities. These efforts are expanded upon by examining the controversy, pitfalls, and rewards found within the epistemological paradigms and research methodologies. The second half of the chapter identifies four pathways researchers can use when engaging in activist anthropology: teaching to a goal; responsive mapping to uncover mystical barriers; community building as the goal for focus groups, interviews, and surveys; and responsive programs and events.