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A Collaborative Inquiry of Diverse Women: Exploring Intersectionality, Cross-Cultural Consciousness and Women’s Ways of Knowing
Type of Presentation
Workshop
Session Abstract
In this experiential session, the presenters will describe and recreate some of their collaborative inquiry processes which they undertook during their doctoral program in adult education and leadership.
Target Audience
Adult educators, graduate students and anyone interested in learning about collaborative inquiry as a form of action research.
Learning Outcomes
As a diverse group of women from different cultures, races, ethnicities, professional contexts, marital statuses, and geographical locations, we believe through CI we will learn how to negotiate the paradox of diversity, and communicate holistically across complex cultural differences. Building on the work of Heron (1992) and Yorks and Kasl (2002), we will share how we experienced “learning-within-relationship,” and the paradox of diversity by applying Heron’s (1992) interdependent ways of knowing so that we as adult educators will better understand the gap between felt encounter and whole person understanding in a diverse setting (Yorks & Kasl, 2002).
Session Description
Our experiences as women in a doctoral program grounded in various adult learning theories prompt us to contribute our own voices to the broader dialogue around transformative learning theories. Our purpose here is to utilize collaborative inquiry, an action learning and research tool with radical participatory principles, to explore how we as women make meaning of the intersections of our multiple identities, and how this influences our cross-cultural consciousness, an awakening to a complex, holistic, higher order of thinking that compels us to action (Yorks & Kasl, 2010). We will share specific learning activities that helped foster conditions for transformative learning in our own CI. Participants will be able to apply the process and/or content we present in their own lives and practice. We feel this will be accomplished by keeping in mind the “paradox of diversity” and creating the right holding environment (Drago-Severson, 2010; Yorks & Kasl, 2002).
Efforts are made to try to schedule sessions on the day preferred by the Primary Presenter, though this cannot be guaranteed. Please check your preference.
Thursday November 7