Our research model is aimed at facilitating meaningful improvements in the lives of students and identifying best practices that help schools to be more inclusive, generous and effective places. From a position of success with a proven track record for institutional change, CSBGL has broadened its outreach by providing workshops and training sessions to share practices and facilitate connections between schools interested in Participatory Action Research (PAR).
The Training Institute provides a set of workshops on topics that have been of interest to member schools. The purpose of these workshops is to offer self-contained, targeted training on specific aspects of research methodology, theoretical framing of research issues, data analysis, and strategies for incorporating research (projects and data) into day-to-day school life and institutional change.
Workshops Available
These workshops, both in content and process, will emphasize the ethical nature of the Center’s approach: that fairness in understanding depends upon the reflexive awareness of one’s own beliefs, emotions, and experiences. This awareness is an important part of doing school-based research given the ways that schools and their students re-enact the power relationships evident in society at large. These workshops are designed for and offered to member schools, and to non-member schools upon consultation.
During the year 2011-2012, the following workshops will be available:
- Qualitative and quantitative research design
- Qualitative and quantitative data analysis
- YPAR (youth participatory action research)
- Working with students as co-researchers
- Ethical issues in school-based research, justice framework