In the Midst of Participatory Action Research Practices: Moving towards Decolonizing and Decolonial Praxis

• Main Authors: Hartej Gill, Kadi Purru, Gloria Lin
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oslo University College 2012-07-01
• Series: Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology
• Online Access: https://journals.hioa.no/index.php/rerm/article/view/357

<span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span><p style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt 36pt;" class="MsoNormal"><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Calibri&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;; font-size: 11pt; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;;">Where disenfranchised groups such as women, immigrants and people of color more generally were either excluded from the academy or not thought to have important 'stories' to tell, several qualitative methodologies now value these voices, in large measure because disenfranchised research participants have an understanding in their bodies of what it means to be exposed to patriarchy, racism, classism, heterosexism, ableism, xenophobia and other complex forms of oppression (Gitlin, 2007, p.1).</span></em><em style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;"></span></em></p><span style="font-family: Times New Roman; font-size: small;"> </span>