Shifting Subjectivities and Shifting Teaching
Participatory Action Research in Prison
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2289758 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jim Sosnowski (0000-0002-2635-5809, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, corresponding author), Bryan Dean (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Pablo Mendoza, Pablo A Mendoza (0000-0002-0263-9698, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign), Orlando Mayorga (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 46 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 52-63 |
| Publication date | 2022-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annals of Anthropological Practice (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2153-957X • E-ISSN: 2153-9588 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/napa.12170 |
| OpenAlex | W4200481765 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 25 |
Research focused on minoritized communities has predominantly been conducted by individuals associated with universities who have little connection to or investment in these communities beyond their research agenda. Oftentimes, this research benefits the researcher more than the community. This study of a peer-taught, prison-based, adult language, and literacy program challenged traditional research paradigms through the implementation of participatory action research (PAR). Informed by PAR epistemologies, the research team, composed of the incarcerated peer-instructors and a university volunteer, employed qualitative methodologies over an 18-month period to better understand how the program was experienced by its different members in relation to classroom practices and policies. We examine how PAR provided a reflexive space for us to examine our shifting subjectivities as members and researchers in the program while also challenging our understandings of the experiences of program members. Additionally, this study calls for a broader consideration of how change is defined
Action (physics · Action research · Citizen journalism · Criminology · Literacy · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Prison · Public relations · Qualitative research · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Higher Education Practises and Engagement · Mental Health and Patient Involvement · Participatory Visual Research Methods
Working Method
Humanizing Research
Critical participatory action research as public science.
Ypar and Critical Epistemologies
Education
Theorizing and Enacting Translanguaging for Social Justice
Local Histories/Global Designs
The right to research
Split Scenes, Converging Visions
Participatory Action Research and Critical Race Theory
Naturalistic inquiry
Engaging Ethnography
Collaboration, Cooperation, and Working Together
Practicing What We Preach
Decolonizing Methodologies
Introduction
Reflections on an ethnographic project with elementary educators on the Wind River Reservation
Involve me and I learn
Anthropological Praxis in Higher Education
Building a Latino-engaged Action-research Collaborative
Action Anthropology
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |