Open Access"This Research that We are Doing is Just the Beginning of the Conversation”: Undergraduate Researchers Enacting Literacies of Relationality
Author(s) -
Vaughn W. M. Watson,
Rae Oviatt,
Terry K. Flennaugh,
Chauntel Byrd,
Regina Deloach,
Sarah F. Jackson,
Jewel Pugh
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
the journal of college orientation and transition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2690-4535
pISSN - 1534-2263
DOI - 10.24926/jcotr.v27i2.3302
Subject(s) - photovoice , conversation , pedagogy , participatory action research , transition (genetics) , active listening , action research , literacy , sociology , citizen journalism , psychology , visual arts , political science , art , biochemistry , chemistry , communication , anthropology , law , gene
We extend theoretical perspectives of critical listening and storying with undergraduate researchers of Color as they conducted a Youth Participatory Action Research inquiry. Undergraduate researchers designed, analyzed, and shared findings of their photovoice project examining their transition experiences to a PwI. We asked: what literacy activities do undergraduate researchers of Color enact during the photovoice project; and how are undergraduate researchers’ literacy activities shaping and, in turn, shaped by contexts of relationality? We conceptually frame our work as extending notions of quilting across African Diaspora women’s communities. We discuss how undergraduate co-researchers enact literacies of relationality while examining transition experiences of first-year students of Color. This stance-taking considers how educational communities including teachers, teacher educators, education researchers, and student affairs educators may meaningfully incorporate knowledge, perspectives, and questions of preservice teachers of Color, which are an integral part of transition experiences of undergraduate researchers and future teachers.