The Critical Nature of Our Methodology: A Qualitative Longitudinal Approach to Studying Urban Educational Reform

• In Event: 41.083 - Roundtable Session 15
  In Roundtable Session: 41.083-7 - The Impact of Information and Data in Education

Abstract

The purpose of this presentation is to bring attention to the illustrative power of qualitative longitudinal research within the context of the urban “educational reform churn.” In doing so, we aim to contribute to both methodological and substantive conversations within urban education and urban educational reform. By drawing upon qualitative longitudinal research collected in four low-performing, urban secondary schools in Buffalo, NY, we take the reader in and through the educational reform churn in order to illuminate the temporal mechanisms of stabilization and destabilization that develop within urban schools in and through time.

Authors

• Amy Elizabeth Stich, Northern Illinois University

• Kristin Cipollone, Ball State University