Sculpting Knowledge: Black Methodologies, Education Research, and Citation as Method-Making
Centering Blackness in educational research is a pursuit of liberation grounded in process, inquiry, and relational praxis. This approach recognizes liberation as an ongoing, unfinished endeavor, urging researchers to disrupt the normative systems that constrain Black life and knowledge. Black metho...
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| author | Wilson Kwamogi Okello Tiffany M. Nyachae DeMarcus A. Jenkins |
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| description | Centering Blackness in educational research is a pursuit of liberation grounded in process, inquiry, and relational praxis. This approach recognizes liberation as an ongoing, unfinished endeavor, urging researchers to disrupt the normative systems that constrain Black life and knowledge. Black methodologies emerge as flexible and transformative, drawing on Black creative and intellectual labor to challenge dominant epistemologies. In this context, centering Blackness involves using citation as a method-making practice—a critical approach to knowing, relating, questioning, and imagining otherwise. The articles in this collection embody these principles. Together, they advocate for referential, relational, and rebellious approaches to knowledge, expanding the possibilities of research rooted in Blackness. This collection reorients educational inquiry by proposing Black living as a method to rethink, disrupt, and transform systems of knowledge and power. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-2f630b101d7f4f13beac5346bc7008f12025-08-20T02:54:14ZengSAGE PublishingInternational Journal of Qualitative Methods1609-40692025-12-012410.1177/16094069241312689Sculpting Knowledge: Black Methodologies, Education Research, and Citation as Method-MakingWilson Kwamogi OkelloTiffany M. NyachaeDeMarcus A. JenkinsCentering Blackness in educational research is a pursuit of liberation grounded in process, inquiry, and relational praxis. This approach recognizes liberation as an ongoing, unfinished endeavor, urging researchers to disrupt the normative systems that constrain Black life and knowledge. Black methodologies emerge as flexible and transformative, drawing on Black creative and intellectual labor to challenge dominant epistemologies. In this context, centering Blackness involves using citation as a method-making practice—a critical approach to knowing, relating, questioning, and imagining otherwise. The articles in this collection embody these principles. Together, they advocate for referential, relational, and rebellious approaches to knowledge, expanding the possibilities of research rooted in Blackness. This collection reorients educational inquiry by proposing Black living as a method to rethink, disrupt, and transform systems of knowledge and power.https://doi.org/10.1177/16094069241312689 |
| spellingShingle | Wilson Kwamogi Okello Tiffany M. Nyachae DeMarcus A. Jenkins Sculpting Knowledge: Black Methodologies, Education Research, and Citation as Method-Making International Journal of Qualitative Methods |
| title | Sculpting Knowledge: Black Methodologies, Education Research, and Citation as Method-Making |
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