Methodological Ethics
Date & Time: December 1, 2023, 3:30 pm–5:15 pm
Location: Zoom Meeting
The CSHE and the BSIEL presents Black Research Approaches: Methodological Ethics, part of the 2023-2024 Black Study in Education Lab Webinar Series.
This webinar focuses on methodological ethics in research processes as an artifact of Western beliefs and systems of thinking. The speakers will critique these beliefs toward a critical, more expansive rendering of methodological ethics.
Featured speaker Dr. Mildred Boveda, Pennsylvania State University Associate Professor of Special Education, will present “Mami-Informed Onto-Epistemology: A Black Feminist Call to Know What You Know.” In her scholarship, Dr. Boveda applies the term “intersectional consciousness” to describe educators’ understanding of diversity and how students, families, and colleagues have multiple sociocultural markers that intersect in nuanced and unique ways. Drawing from Black feminist theory and collaborative teacher education research, she interrogates how differences are framed across education communities to influence education policy and practice. Boveda makes explicit how her mother’s stories about the Dominican Republic and life in the 20th century continue to shape her academic and professional trajectory. Dr. Kamaria Porter, Assistant Professor of Education Policy Studies at The Pennsylvania State University and CSHE Faculty Research Associate, will serve as discussant, drawing on her intersectional research examining gender and racial inequities in higher education.