Though qualitative research methods shape scholarship around the globe, and institutions worldwide offer qualitative coursework, there is very little explicit discussion on how to effectively teach qualitative research. Instead, a standard approach is for instructors to gain in-depth expertise in qualitative methodologies, with little or no pedagogical training. The effect is a continuous and nearly exclusive emphasis on content knowledge that undermines the preparation of novice researchers as both teachers and learners.
This book works to fill that gap by offering perspectives, strategies, and applications from instructor and student perspectives, based on a semester-long class emphasizing social justice in qualitative research. This edited volume offers sections on pedagogical strategies, studentsâ responses to and applications of those concepts, and then instructor reflections. The goal is to offer an important starting point for explicit discussions on how qualitative research might be taught and learned, in addition to how it might be thoughtfully and ethically conducted.
Contributors are: Erica T. Campbell, Sun Young Gu, Kelsey H. Guy, Aimee J. Hackney, April M. Jones, Alison N. Kearley, Caran Kennedy, Amon Neely-Cowan, Allyson Pitzel, Diana Quito, Erin E. Rich, Stephanie Anne Shelton, Ashley Salter Virgin and Venus Trevae Watson.
Stephanie Anne Shelton, PhD (2016), University of Georgia. She has published articles exploring qualitative methodologies, teacher identities, and LGBTQ+ issues in education through queer and feminist frameworks and has published six other books.
Erica T. Campbell, PhD (2022), University of Alabama. She has published articles exploring qualitative methodologies and Black women and minoritized students and administrators in higher education institutions.
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Introduction: The Class That Created This BookâA Pedagogy of Refusal and Vulnerability in Teaching Qualitative Research
âStephanie Anne Shelton and Erica T. Campbell
PART 1: A Refusal to Repeat Past Wrongs in Research
1 Pedagogical Possibilities: A Refusal to Repeat Past Wrongs in Research
âStephanie Anne Shelton and Erica T. Campbell
2 âThe Streets Donât Love You, but I Doâ: Reflections on Social Justice in Qualitative Research and Real Life
âAlison N. Kearley
3 Dear White Woman: Itâs Privilege, Can We Talk?
âAllyson Pitzel
4 Confronting the Silent Bystander: Lessons in Advocacy
âDiana Quito
5 P.S. I Love You: Autoethnographic Notes on Internalized Racial Oppression in Schools Utilizing Notes
âVenus Trevae Watson
6 Pedagogical Reflections: A Refusal to Repeat Past Wrongs in Research
âStephanie Anne Shelton and Erica T. Campbell
PART 2: A Refusal to Be Inauthentic in Research
7 Pedagogical Possibilities: A Refusal to Be Inauthentic in Research
âStephanie Anne Shelton and Erica T. Campbell
8 To Be Young, Gifted and Black at Sweet Home Alabama, Goddamn: A Critical Race Autoethnography
âAmon J. Neely-Cowan
9 Intersecting Black Greek Letter Organizations (BGLO s) and Qualitative Research: A Narrative Discussion of Ways Research Can Examine Social Justice Work through the Lens of BGLO s
âCaran Kennedy
10 You Donât Look Like a Real Researcher!
âAimee J. Hackney
11 Years in the Making: Finding My Voice in Academic Writing
âKelsey H. Guy
12 Pedagogical Reflections: A Refusal to Be Inauthentic in Research
âStephanie Anne Shelton and Erica T. Campbell
PART 3: A Refusal to Not Humanize Research
13 Pedagogical Possibilities: A Refusal to Not Humanize Research
âStephanie Anne Shelton and Erica T. Campbell
14 Adjusting My Focus: A Conversation on Culturally Relevant Pedagogy through Three Lenses
âErin E. Rich
15 Inside-Out: Perceptions of a Novice Researcher at a Residential Treatment Center for At-Risk Youth
âAshley Salter Virgin
16 Ideologies in Tension: Family Language Policy in a Korean-American Transnational Family
âSun Young Gu
17 From Social Science to Social Justice: Illuminating Racialized Trauma Experiences through Narrative Inquiries
âJanelle L. Jones
18 The Evolution of Self With/In/Out/Alongside Qualitative Research
âApril M. Jones
19 Pedagogical Reflections: A Refusal to Not Humanize Research
âStephanie Anne Shelton and Erica T. Campbell
Conclusion: How Qualitative Research Gets Taught MattersâPolitical Contexts, Hopeful Refusals, and Honest Vulnerability
âStephanie Anne Shelton and Erica T. Campbell
Index
All who are interested in qualitative research, graduate education, pedagogical strategies in educational research, and social justice in qualitative research.