Inspired by Love: Revolutionary Love-Based Ontoepistemic and Ethical Possibilities for Transformative Methodology

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Positivist, evidence-based research, and general whiteness-centered structures of inquiry often marginalizes ontoepistemic orientations to research that is beyond its limited scope. The sterile and detached ways of knowledge creation about public education and training of educational researchers in mastering such ways of knowledge making is devoid of culturally situated understanding, de/colonial ethics, and compassionate methodologies that integrate an understanding of generational violence enacted by the enterprise of research. In this symposium, four women scholars of color situate revolutionary love-based possibilities for transformative approaches to inquiry highlighting ontoepistemologies, theorization, design, ethics, and rigor. We highlight the violence created by the hidden and not-so-hidden curriculum in public education and educational research as we work with borders, erasures, displacements, and disciplinary apparatuses.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Methodologies and Ethics (The Shapes of Curriculum)

Chair

• Mildred Boveda, Arizona State University - Tempe

Papers

• Love as Onto-Epistemological Orientation: A Post-Oppositional De/colonial Imagination of Ethics in Educational Research Purpose - Kakali Bhattacharya, Kansas State University

• Revolutionary Love/Revolutionaries Love: Methodology as Epistemological Liberation and Praxis - Venus E. Evans-Winters, Illinois State University

• Getting Intimate: The Promise and Problems of Bringing Love Into Qualitative Research - Crystal T. Laura, Chicago State University

• Love as Methodology: Contextualizing Rigor and Setting Standards - Mildred Boveda, Arizona State University - Tempe

Discussant

• Carla Shalaby, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor