It all started as a grad project...
It all started as a grad project... Well, it is still a grad project. But it is a hope that this Blog and the associated website could become a useful place for future and current teachers. But for right now, I am just a grad student doing a project in order to apply CPAR (critical participatory action research) to a problem facing our local school communities. The first step was to figure out what exactly CPAR is and how to apply it. CPAR is a direct and non-institutional way to collect research about an issue. So much of the process is invested in deep identification of who has interest in the project. This is who is affected and who is involved. But that is just the start. Next careful thought is given to who should be included, who needs to be amplified and who needs to purposefully not be included. A big part of CPAR is working to correct systems of injustice and so when deciding who is going to be included and not included in...