Learning and being in community: a Latina feminist holistic approach to researching where we live

IF 1.5 Q2 EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

International Journal of Research & Method in Education Pub Date : 2022-05-27 DOI:10.1080/1743727X.2022.2043842

Gilda L. Ochoa

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ABSTRACT Since college, La Puente, CA has been the focus of my research and activism from bilingual education, sanctuary to by-trustee area school board elections. As a graduate student in the 1990s, I returned to live and research in this city of my childhood and where my immigrant grandparents eventually moved to in the 1950s from Nicaragua and Sicily. Rooted in home lessons, research experiences, participation in community struggles, and informed by Chicana/Latina and other women of colour feminist methodologies, this piece uses storytelling and poetry to reflect on the politics and possibilities of researching where we live. In particular, it highlights the epistemological and methodological pushback, along with the benefits and lessons learned over a life course of learning from teachers, becoming neighbours, and studying educational inequalities. Unique to my Latina feminist approach are the enduring relationships that have unfolded over the course of three decades of being able to (re)search, learn, live, and organize in community.

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学习和融入社区:拉丁女性主义研究我们居住地的整体方法

从大学开始，加州的拉普恩特就一直是我研究和行动的焦点，从双语教育，避难所到受托人地区学校董事会选举。20世纪90年代，作为一名研究生，我回到了这个我童年的城市生活和研究，我的祖父母最终在20世纪50年代从尼加拉瓜和西西里岛移民到这里。这篇文章根植于家庭课程、研究经验、参与社区斗争，并借鉴了墨西哥裔/拉丁裔和其他有色人种女性的女权主义方法，用故事和诗歌来反思政治和研究我们生活的地方的可能性。它特别强调了认识论和方法论上的阻力，以及在向教师学习、成为邻居和研究教育不平等的一生中所获得的好处和教训。我的拉丁女性主义方法的独特之处在于，在能够(重新)搜索、学习、生活和组织社区的三十年中，持久的关系已经展开。

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International Journal of Research & Method in Education EDUCATION & EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH-

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期刊介绍： The International Journal of Research & Method in Education is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed journal that draws contributions from a wide community of international researchers. Contributions are expected to develop and further international discourse in educational research with a particular focus on method and methodological issues. The journal welcomes papers engaging with methods from within a qualitative or quantitative framework, or from frameworks which cut across and or challenge this duality. Papers should not solely focus on the practice of education; there must be a contribution to methodology. International Journal of Research & Method in Education is committed to publishing scholarly research that discusses conceptual, theoretical and methodological issues, provides evidence, support for or informed critique of unusual or new methodologies within educational research and provides innovative, new perspectives and examinations of key research findings. The journal’s enthusiasm to foster debate is also recognised in a keenness to include engaged, thought-provoking response papers to previously published articles. The journal is also interested in papers that discuss issues in the teaching of research methods for educational researchers. Contributors to International Journal of Research & Method in Education should take care to communicate their findings or arguments in a succinct, accessible manner to an international readership of researchers, policy-makers and practitioners from a range of disciplines including but not limited to philosophy, sociology, economics, psychology, and history of education. The Co-Editors welcome suggested topics for future Special Issues. Initial ideas should be discussed by email with the Co-Editors before a formal proposal is submitted for consideration.