Inquiring In and With the Community: Challenges and Implications
Welcome to the Flash Course Inquiring In and With the Community: Challenges and Implications!
This short course invites participants to reflect on collaborative research with communities, exploring its potential, limitations, and ethical implications. More than researching about communities, it is about researching with them, recognising their knowledge, needs, and perspectives as integral to the process of building knowledge.
Content
What You Will Learn
• What it means to inquire in and with the community in academic and social contexts
• Ethical, methodological, and practical challenges of this approach
• Strategies to build trust and collaboration with communities
• Examples of participatory research projects and their impact
• Implications for teaching, research, and social engagement
Target Audience
Quem Deve Inscrever-se?
Docentes e investigadores interessados em metodologias participativas, estudantes de várias áreas que desejem explorar novas formas de fazer investigação, e qualquer pessoa curiosa sobre o diálogo entre academia e comunidade na produção de conhecimento.
Motivation
Why Take This Course?
Because engaging in research with communities promotes a more inclusive, relevant, and transformative science. This course provides tools to rethink the role of educators and researchers, and to design projects that respond more directly to social realities.