Critical and Humanizing Approaches to Research

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This course employs Indigenous, Black feminist, Chicana feminist, and decolonizing research frameworks to mediate and articulate ontologies, epistemologies, and methodologies of research. These processes assist researchers in enacting and engaging critically conscious and humanizing research. We begin by "becoming" conscious through the specific naming of oppression(s) and the coming of voice. We then attempt to humanize ourselves as researchers through a process of self (re)discovery, recovery, remembering, and reflexivity as they relate to our approaches and attachments to various research projects and inquiries. Next, we interrogate ethical research engagements with vulnerable communities through the discussion and close reading of several research studies and perspective pieces. We then consider how these discussions show up in our writing, citations, and in our overall life's work towards a more just world.