44.053 - Diverse "How" to Do Qualitative Research: Challenging White Qualitative Research Methods and Methodologies in Disability Studies in Education

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This session uses a DSE framework to challenge and inform qualitative methods/methodologies for working with persons with disabilities, families, and professionals in diverse cultures. We will present four papers addressing a different cultural context in which the researcher encountered limitations of traditional qualitative approaches, modified existing methods, and devised new strategies to gain understanding of/within the lives of their participants. A central goal is to model and make space for critical conversations on how a DSE lens informs efforts to push boundaries of qualitative research. We also examine the ways qualitative research methods/methodologies have historically centered on Western White-American able-bodied logic and call on fellow DSE researchers to explore different approaches to how, why, and by whom research is done.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Disability Studies in Education

Chair

• Christine Elaine Ashby, Syracuse University

Papers

• What's (Y)our Story? Co-Constructing Narrative Accounts With/of Students With Autism Who Type to Communicate - Casey Woodfield, Hussman Institute for Autism

• Real and Radical Vulnerability: Exploring My Role and Identity as a Researcher - Brianna Dickens, Syracuse University

• Navigating Within/Outside of the Local Context: A Lesson From Qualitative Research in South Africa - Yosung Song, Syracuse University

• Current Absence and Future Potential of Korean Methods and Methodology in Disability Studies in Education - Eun Young Jung, Elmira College