Emancipatory Inquiry: Listening, Learning, and Acting for Social Change

Harvard HGSE

Throughout history, individuals, scholars, social justice movements, and social justice organizations have leveraged disciplined inquiry or research to highlight untold stories, illuminate goodness, expose systems of power and colonialism, and offer pathways to greater justice and freedom. Yet, we often do not provide educators or doctoral students with research methodology training oriented to these aims, even though research frameworks that prioritize justice-based action are…