The Social Justice Implications for Community Engaged Research: Whose Research Agenda? and My Relationship with the Community
Keywords:
social justice, community engaged research, research agenda, LGBTQ youthAbstract
The 2010 winner of the Ernest A. Lynton Award examines two social justice themes that have emerged in his community-engaged work. He argues that the traditional model of the development of the scholars' research agenda is one that can promote and maintain the academy-community hierarchy and that the scholars' social identities play an important role in the research enterprise. He concludes by illustrating how these two issues played out in one particular research study.
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