Transformative Research Toolkit
The Transformative Research Toolkit provides strategies and resources for community-driven research, emphasizing participatory action, cultural knowledge, and empowerment to address social justice issues and promote inclusion and belonging.
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In the worst of these conditions, knowledge is wielded as a tool of power through which education systems can actively oppress entire populations, preventing the awareness of their own agency in their lives.
When these narrative shifts occur among communities and groups of people, new potentials arise. People are capable of taking actions that defy systems of oppression and popular expectations. But to ready people for such moments, we must do more than raise the alarm about injustice.
Given the sheer amount of media available to any person with an internet connection, we have no shortage of “witnesses” to atrocity. Forcing people to behold injustice is not enough. Nor is the goal to simply generate a reaction—any reaction—to injustice; such noise can easily become a passing clamor. The goal is to pull people into an active forma
... See moreRetooling for design justice means developing new approaches to key design methods like A/B tests, benchmarks, user testing, and validation.
We are not simply “missing out” on knowledge; we are being robbed of it. To succeed in our movements, we must resist this theft and reclaim what has been stolen from us.
