Volume 7, Issue 1 (2022) Community Engagement, Literacy, and Research in Communities of Color

Special Editors' Comments

The purpose of this special theme issue was to publish new theoretical frameworks, models, and theories regarding community engagement research. As co-editors, we define community engagement within education as a commitment to partnering and engaging with communities through university partnerships, service learning, special projects, literacy clinics, campus communities, field work attached to university courses, community-based projects, crowdsourcing, digital projects, implementation of research-based curricula, research in schools, tutoring models, and longitudinal studies. The authors within this special theme issue submitted both traditional and nontraditional methodologies such as historical and archival research, commentaries, essays, case studies, ethnography, action research, digital research, phenomenological, grounded theory, narrative, survey research, cross-cultural, critical ethnography, longitudinal, mixed methods, descriptive, critical race research, activist and liberatory research frameworks. The scholars who employ traditional or contemporary research traditions which use existing research models or those creating new research models and paradigms and teacher-scholars and scholar-activists who write nontraditional calls for research and identify gaps in the research were encouraged to submit commentaries and essays of these types of submissions.

Tiffany A. Flowers

Dorian Harrison