Unknown - Decolonizing Interpretive Research

Amongst the long-needed intersection between education and decolonization, this book offers that rare mix of theory intertwined with action. Darder makes clear that to decolonize can happen in myriad ways, but not without intention, connection, and a stance of learning.

Professor Leigh Patel, Associate Dean for Equity and Justice, School of Education, University of Pittsburgh

Decolonizing Interpretive Research audaciously brings to the fore subaltern voices that not only interrogate so-called objective lenses used to research the other, but also offers emancipatory, humanistic, and organic ways in which the oppressed can document and tell their stories. This is a cutting-edge book that challenges western research orthodoxies while transcending disciplinary boundaries.

Professor Pierre W. Orelus, Associate Professor and Department Chair, School of Education, Fairfield University

Decolonizing Interpretive Research: A Subaltern Methodology for Social Change brings the literature of critical, anti-colonial, postcolonial studies to bear on the process and methods of research in a manner that enacts scholarly production as social action. Antonia Darder as teacher foregrounds the work of her students, dismantling the hierarchies of voice and power. Together they engage research as a communal process, working as revolutionary partners pushing through and against established limits of how research is defined. The dissident voices of the students peel back layers of the colonial matrix with each chapter; their words flowing as affirmations of social change in the making.

Professor Sandy Grande, Chair of the Education Department, Connecticut College

To what extent do Western political and economic interests distort perceptions and affect the Western production of research about the other? The concept of colonializing epistemologies describes how knowledges outside the Western purview are often not only rendered invisible but either absorbed or destroyed.

Decolonizing Interpretive Research outlines a form of oppositional study that undertakes a critical analysis of bodies of knowledge in any field that engages with issues related to the lives and survival of those deemed as other. It focuses on creating intellectual spaces that will facilitate new readings of the world and lead toward change, both in theory and practice. The book begins by conceptualizing the various aspects of the decolonizing interpretive research approach for the reader, and the following six chapters each focus on one of these issues, grounded in a specific decolonizing interpretive study.

With a foreword by Linda Tuhiwai Smith, this book will allow readers to not only engage with the conceptual framework of this decolonizing methodology but will also give them access to examples of how the methodology has informed decolonizing interpretive studies in practice.

Antonia Darder holds the Leavey Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership at Loyola Marymount University and is Distinguished Visiting Faculty at the University of Johannesburg. She has published numerous books and her work focuses on political questions and ethical concerns linked to racism, class inequalities, language rights, critical pedagogy, cultural studies, and Latino education. More recently, her work has sought to contend with pedagogical questions of the body and the persistent impact of coloniality on community leadership and empowerment.

DECOLONIZING INTERPRETIVE RESEARCH

A Subaltern Methodology for Social Change

Edited by Antonia Darder

First published 2019

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Names: Darder, Antonia, editor.

Title: Decolonizing interpretive research : a subaltern methodology for social change / edited by Antonia Darder.

Description: Abingdon, Oxo n; New York, N Y: Routledge, 2019. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2019004032| ISBN 9781138486607 (hardback) | ISBN 9781138486614 (pbk.) | ISBN 9781351045070 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: Critical pedagogy. | Knowledge, Theory of. | Educatio--Research. | Social change.

Classification: LCC LC196 .D43 2019 | DDC 121--dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019004032

ISBN: 978-1-138-48660-7 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-1-138-48661-4 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-1-351-04507-0 (ebk)

Antonia Darder

Kortney Hernandez

Emily Estioco Bautista

Kenzo Bergeron

Bibinaz Pirayesh

Terrelle Billy Sales

Joo Paraskeva

Emily Estioco Bautista holds an Ed.D. in Educational Leadership for Social Justice from Loyola Marymount University. She is a former high school social studies teacher and the current Director of Curriculum and Instruction for Transformation and Assistant Principal at YouthBuild Charter School of California. She is a founding member of the Peoples Education Movement based in Los Angeles. As a scholar activist, her scholarship is informed by her personal experience as a student leader and organizer, as she applies critical, decolonizing, and healing justice lenses to explore, engage, and create transformative possibilities in intergenerational organizing and youth movements.

Kenzo Bergeron holds an Ed.D. in Education Leadership for Social Justice from Loyola Marymount University. Currently, he is the lead mathematics specialist at Village School, California. Bergerons research explores the intersection of psychology and education as they work to negatively impact subaltern populations. He is the author of Challenging the Cult of Self-Esteem in Education: Education, Psychology, and the Subaltern Self.

Antonia Darder, born in Puerto Rico, is a distinguished international critical educational scholar. She is a public intellectual, educator, writer, activist, and artist. Darder holds the Leavey Presidential Endowed Chair of Ethics and Moral Leadership at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles; is Distinguished Visiting Professor of Education at the University of Johannesburg; and is Professor Emerita of Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. She is an American Educational Research Association Fellow and recipient of the AERA Scholars of Color Lifetime Contribution Award. She is the author of numerous books and articles in the field, including