Community mapping generates knowledge through dialogical collective examination of lived experience.

Evidence

Community mapping, as an alternative educative tool, is a participatory approach that provides effective ways of collectively eliciting and examining peoples’ experiences toward producing new knowledge and understandings. It further presents dialogical participant engagement in generating empirical material about the contextual realities and lived experiences within a defined location. — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 207

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Community-engaged field experiences re-teach educators the assets of local neighborhoods — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 357; Transect walks immerse educators in communities to read social conditions — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 175; Community knowledge holds transformative educational potential when co-constructed — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed:…, 214 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Counterstories of lived experience can serve as a first step toward conscientization #exemplifies (0.85) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 465
• Community knowledge holds transformative educational potential when co-constructed #corroborates (0.82) — James D. Kirylo (ed.), Reinventing Pedagogy of the Oppressed, 214
• Collective intellectual work requires respectful dialogic engagement to manage conflicting perspectives #expands (0.80)
• Knowledge production operates through socially grounded language #corroborates (0.72)