Date of Award
2018
Document Type
Senior Scholars Paper (Open Access)
Department
Colby College. Education Program
Advisor(s)
Lyn Mikel Brown
Second Advisor
Mark Tappan
Third Advisor
Lisa Arellano
Abstract
In this paper, I review and analyze the year long implementation of a Participatory Action Research (PAR) project at a small-town alternative education program. PAR is a feminist research method, as well as a form of feminist education, in the way that it facilitates a critical-consciousness raising. PAR is queer in its emphasis on analyzing social and relational structures, as well as in the way that it subverts power dynamics within traditional, heteronormative research; it also is distinctly queer in its ability to imagine other ways of being while orienting itself toward social change. Finally, this paper offers a critical analysis of the process of conducting PAR within the academy and the ways in which the academy operates to limit the radical reach of queer and feminist theory.
Keywords
queer, Participatory Action Research, feminism, queer futurity, feminist education, Waterville
Recommended Citation
Carmack, Adrienne R., "The Impact and Radical Queer Possibility of Youth Participatory Action Research" (2018). Senior Scholar Papers. Paper 565.https://digitalcommons.colby.edu/seniorscholars/565