Join us: Participatory Action Research for Epistemic Rebels - Introductory Workshop
PAR Workshop/Events this weekend!
We are excited to invite you to join us from October 30th to November 3rd, 2024 for our Participatory Action Research (PAR) for Rebels: an Introductory Workshop led by Dr. Felix Bivens at the Alnoba, in Kensington, NH. This workshop is sponsored by the Regenerative School, in partnership with the Highlander Research and Education Center.
What is PAR?
Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a decolonized approach to research that works with communities and marginal groups to create action and change based on their deep knowledge and capacity for analysis. This 4-day, in-person workshop will provide an intensive grounding in the theory and practice of participatory action research (PAR).
Session include:
Conceptual and Historical Origins of PAR
Recognizing multiple paradigms of knowledge in research
Reconceptualizing power in research
Participatory methods for generating data
Techniques for collective analysis and sensemaking
With support from Skip and your colleagues in the group, you will also explore ideas for what a PAR inquiry on your campus or in your community could look like and where to start those conversations.
Measuring learning and change in PAR
Secure your spot quickly! Our group size is limited to 15 participants.
Registration includes a full four-day course, shared double occupancy accommodations, full board, and access to 10 miles of beautiful nature trails with inspiring world-class works of art.
Participatory Action Research for Epistemic Rebels an Introductory Workshop
Join us for a Weekend of Learning about Research for Action!
Date: October 30th to November 3rd, 2024
Location: ALNOBA, Kensington, NH
Other events offered by our partners:
This weekend is Yankee Homecoming in Newburyport MA!
This Saturday at 4pm you are invited to join our friend and collaborator Kristine Malpica for her annual Yankee Homecoming talk and walking tour on local Native history, which will begin at the new Custom House Maritime Museum exhibit. The tour features local Indigenous artifacts from the Coffin Stream Assemblage.
History talk and walk: Uncommon Ground- Pawtucket Spaces and Colonized Places on the Molodemak (Merrimack) River.
Join public historian Kristine Malpica for a talk and walking tour that explores Pawtucket-Pennacook-Abenaki Indigenous presence along the Molodemak (Abenaki name) River, which served as a conduit of travel, trade, cross-cultural exchange and conflict with English colonists.
The tour begins at the Custom House Museum's new "Before Newburyport" exhibit of Native artifacts and history, then continues along the Clipper City Rail Trail to the Firehouse Center for the Arts. More info here.
The Newburyport waterfront park Indigenous Peoples Place gathering and commemorative site which the Indigenous People Day group hope will be the location for some of this year's IPD event activities! This is a first-of-its-kind project. Volunteers; both Edith Heyck, who is the Waterfront Trust Park Manager, and Nanette Masi have created a beautiful rendering, an imaginative bird's eye view, and proposed layout, including potential for native sculpture, plants, 3 sisters garden, and a fire circle.
Another local note: we encourage people to check out the exhibition on Indigenous peoples at the Custom House Maritime Museum. It has been my privilege to help curate this exhibit, which will include artifacts from the Coffin Stream Assemblage spanning 7,000 years of local Native occupation. This collection from West Newbury was in a museum in Maine for decades and has recently come home! Read full story here