Diverse Research Methods for Educating Diverse Democracies: Using Multiple Methods to Understand and Intervene on the Social Contexts of Education

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

Researchers who take seriously the idea that social contexts mediate learning opportunities recognize the value of employing multiple methods for understanding and intervening on the role that contexts play in producing equitable (and inequitable) opportunities. In this session, researchers who work from many different perspectives will discuss their work to develop and employ innovative and rigorous methods for tracing and changing the workings of social contexts. They will each address how the particular methods they use improve our ability to understand and intervene on contexts. They also will discuss what their methods overlook. Our goal for the session is to push the boundaries of what counts as valid and useful research on the social contexts of education and to open new lines of inquiry with new and diverse methods.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education

Chair

• Elizabeth Birr Moje, University of Michigan

Participants

• Alfredo J. Artiles, Arizona State University

• Adam Gamoran, William T. Grant Foundation

• Janelle T. Scott, University of California - Berkeley

Discussants

• Mark Hogrebe, Washington University in St. Louis

• Carol D. Lee, Northwestern University

• Barbara Rogoff, University of California - Santa Cruz

• Ruth Lopez Turley, Rice University