Students will learn the historical and theoretical foundations of critical participatory inquiry, outline ethical considerations when engaging in community-engaged research, and practice participatory forms of data collection and analysis. Students will develop and plan a critical participatory inquiry project.
Athena Title
Critical Participatory Inquiry
Equivalent Courses
Not open to students with credit in QUAL 8045E
Prerequisite
QUAL 8400 or QUAL 8400E
Semester Course Offered
Not offered on a regular basis.
Grading System
A - F (Traditional)
Student learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students will learn to articulate the historical and theoretical foundations of critical participatory inquiry (CPI).
By the end of the course, students will learn to describe the common characteristics of CPI.
By the end of the course, students will learn to discuss common practices associated with designing CPI studies.
By the end of the course, students will learn to outline ethical considerations common to the CPI process.
By the end of the course, students will learn to describe the various types of data collected in CPI studies.
By the end of the course, students will learn to design a CPI study.
By the end of the course, students will learn to carry out participatory/collaborative fieldwork, including multiple forms of data collection.
By the end of the course, students will learn to carry out participatory/collaborative data analysis.
By the end of the course, students will learn to describe ethical issues related to representation and sharing findings in CPI.
Topical Outline
1. The roots, goals, use, and process of CPI; researcher positionality
2. Conceptualization and operationalization of ethics and validity in CPI
3. Research design in qualitative studies: Developing research questions and aligning methods
4. Building (On) Relationships: Insider/outsider research, inclusion and power dynamics, ethics of “entering the field”
5. Getting Started: Identifying stakeholders, key informants; identifying and dealing with power structures; engaging ethically and reflexively
6. Making traditional data collection and analysis approaches participatory
7. Arts-based data collection and analysis; practical and ethical concerns
8. Digital and Multimedia data collection and analysis
9. Taking Action and Sharing Findings: Considering authorship/ownership, working for change, and disseminating findings
10. Staying Committed and in Solidarity: Identifying opportunities for and implications of staying involved
