Decolonizing the Academy

Lessons From the Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Bibliographic Data

ID2386271
AuthorsPatricia Parker (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Patricia S Parker (0000-0002-3149-3755, corresponding author), Dorothy Holland (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Jean Dennison (University of Washington, Seattle, USA), Sara Smith (0000-0001-5824-5092), Sara H Smith (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), M R Jackson, Melvin Jackson (The PRIME Collective LLC, NC, USA)
Year2018
Volume24
Issue7
Pages464-477
Publication date2018-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
PublisherSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800417729846
OpenAlexW2759608905
LanguageEN
Citations received14
References cited35

The Graduate Certificate in Participatory Research at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is intended for graduate and professional students who desire training in carrying out research in equitable partnership with, instead of on, communities. This article, written collaboratively by five of the participants in the development of the Certificate, highlights critical practices vital to efforts toward decolonizing academic research: (a) disrupting or circumventing gatekeeping mechanisms that maintain hierarchies of exclusion, (b) creating avenues for privileging a greater range of voices in knowledge production, and (c) providing training for research traditions that engage participants as coproducers of knowledge

Certificate · Chapel · Citizen journalism · Gatekeeping · General partnership · Participatory action research · Pedagogy · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · History · Law · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Service-Learning and Community Engagement