Facilitating Community Research for Social Change: Case Studies in Qualitative, Arts-Based and Visual Research - Paperback

by Casey Burkholder (Editor), Funké Aladejebi (Editor), Joshua Schwab-Cartas (Editor)

This book examines a number of research case studies in different methodological contexts to explicate the widely discussed but undertheorized issue of research facilitation.

Author Biography

Casey Burkholder is an Associate Professor at the University of New Brunswick, Canada, interested in community-based and participatory visual research. In choosing a research path at the intersection of resistance and activism, gender, sexuality, DIY media-making, and pre-service teacher education, Casey's work engages participatory approaches to equity and social change. Her recent projects can be found at: www.caseyburkholder.com.

Funké Aladejebi is an Assistant Professor of history at the University of Toronto, Canada. She is the author of Schooling the System: A History of Black Women Teachers (2021), which explores the intersections of race, gender, and access in Canadian educational institutions. Her research interests are in oral history, the history of education in Canada, Black feminist thought, and transnationalism. Her current research projects can be found at www.funkealadejebi.com.

Joshua Schwab-Cartas is a mixed race Indigenous Binnizá-Austrian, father, filmmaker, and Indigenous language scholar-activist. He is currently a SSHRC Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of British Columbia in the department of Language and Literacy Education. His research seeks to explore how best to combine mobile technology, specifically cellphilms, into Indigenous practice and land-based education as means of fostering intergenerational knowledge transmission and language reclamation.