75.052 - Research De/sign: Theory as a Thimble for Tailoring Methodological Excess

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Employing the notion of de/sign, five researchers detail their intentional selection of a
theoretical thimble to tailor a qualitative methodology (i.e., the interconnected space
between theory, practice, and ethics) that works against injustice and the suturing over of
pedagogical possibilities in educational settings. Contributors examine the pivotal role of
theory as they pierce, (un)stitch, snag, embroider, patch, and mend the fabrics of their
research contexts, components, and commitments. Attention is given to the enacted and
embodied relationship between research de/sign and theory. Lastly, presentation of the
productions that result from theory-practice tailoring engages key themes (e.g.,
representation/alism, voice, agency, identity) and offers questions for the purpose of
provoking engaged and critical discussion.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Brooke Madden, The University of British Columbia

Papers

• Mending a Frayed and Fraught Photovoice: Moving From a Metaphysics of Individualism Toward Relational Ways-of-Knowing-in-Being - Marc Roderick Higgins, The University of British Columbia

• Embroidering the Signified Teacher: Documents and the Production of Identity in School-Based Indigenous Education - Brooke Madden, The University of British Columbia

• Stitching Together Arts-Based Mapping with Emergent Cartography - Elsa Lenz Kothe, The University of British Columbia

• Unraveling "Queer" and "Trans": On Getting to Unknow Youth - Sam Stiegler, The University of British Columbia

• Investigating the Art Encounter With Deleuzean Concepts: Tailoring Research as a Desiring-Assemblage - Marie France Berard, The University of British Columbia

Discussant

• Susan Naomi Nordstrom, The University of Memphis