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Our PARFEM team invites you to the last episode of Season Two. This 10th episode marks the end of a chapter for this podcast, as we are not only wrapping up Season 2, but also bidding farewell to our very own Patricia Maguire, as her journey with us comes to a fork in the road. Our production team, Vanessa and Shikha, interview Patricia Maguire and are co-hosts for this episode.
Patricia is a long-time advocate of feminist-informed participatory and action research. Since publishing the groundbreaking book, Doing participatory research: A feminist approach (1987), she has worked with others, or in her words, accomplices across the world. Now retired, Patricia is Professor Emeritus of Education and Counseling, Western New Mexico University Gallup Graduate Studies Center (GGSC), where she was Chair for twenty-five years. Located in Gallup, New Mexico, a border town to the Navajo Nation and Zuni Pueblo, the GGSC team served one of the most culturally rich, linguistically diverse, yet economically poorest communities in the USA. Understanding that meaningful education happens best in the context of respectful, caring, and mutual relationships, she worked collaboratively to develop and offer transformative, accessible, and cutting-edge graduate education programs. With colleagues and students, she endeavored to build a sustainable university space to support feminist-informed teacher action research. Patricia’s hunger for knowledge and action is evident from a young age. She majored in journalism and geography before ultimately earning a Bachelor of Science in Psychology in and a Masters in Counseling by 1976. She joined the US Peace Corps in 1977, and has been an active member ever since. She volunteered with asylum seekers on the US southwest border, marched and witnessed for social justice, worked with battered women, counseled high schoolers, led Girl Scout troops, and worked locally with a coalition to feed the hungry. Through activism, teaching, and research, her passion has been at the interface of feminisms with participatory action research, teacher action research, and education.
In this episode, we delve into Pat's journey towards incorporating feminism into PAR (03:41) and explore her significant contributions to the field of feminist participatory action research (FPAR) (08:55). We also discuss the FPAR framework (15:23) and examine some gaps in FPAR that she hopes get addressed(31:22). Additionally, we seek her advice for emerging PAR scholars (32:29) and inquire about her approach to incorporating feminism into podcasts (41:36). We also discuss her takeaways from the guest speakers and how they have influenced her feminist perspective (45:48), and provide advice for those interested in creating podcasts in the field of PAR (47:31).
Learn more about our podcast at our companion site https://www.parfemtrailblazers.net/ This episode is co-hosted by Vanessa Gold and Shikha Diwakar, and produced by Vanessa Gold, Shikha Diwakar, and Kavya Harshitha Jidugu. Music is by ZakharValaha from Pixabay.
