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Interventional Systems Ethnography And Intersecting Injustices: A New Approach For Fostering Reciprocal Community Engagement, Danielle Devasto, S. Scott Graham, Daniel Card, Molly Margaret Kessler
Interventional Systems Ethnography And Intersecting Injustices: A New Approach For Fostering Reciprocal Community Engagement, Danielle Devasto, S. Scott Graham, Daniel Card, Molly Margaret Kessler
Community Literacy Journal
Effectively addressing wicked problems requires collaborative, embedded action. But, in many cases, scholarly commitments, social justice, privilege, and precarity collide in ways that make it difficult for community-engaged scholars to ethically navigate competing duties. This article presents our efforts to support reciprocal community engagement in addressing cancer- obesity comorbidity and risk coincidence in underserved communities. Partnering with community healthcare professionals, we conducted an adapted Systems Ethnography/Qualitative Modeling (SEQM) study. SEQM offers an alternative ethical framework for community-engaged research, one that supports reciprocity through enabling participant-centered community self-definition, goal setting, and solution identification.
Keep Writing Weird: A Call For Eco-Administration And Engaged Writing Programs, Veronica House
Keep Writing Weird: A Call For Eco-Administration And Engaged Writing Programs, Veronica House
Community Literacy Journal
Influenced by ecological theories of writing, the author proposes a new model for writing curriculum design and community-based projects. The article provides a project of the Writing Initiative for Service and Engagement at the University of Colorado Boulder as an example of programmatic engagement with a community issue using an ecological methodology.