28.031 - Moving Theory Into Practice: Methodological Considerations Regarding Positionality, Identity, and Researcher Reflexivity

Session Type: Workshop

Abstract

In this session, three researchers will share their methodological considerations about positionality, identity, and reflexivity. First, the researchers will draw upon a shared framework of critical race methodological literature to establish a common frame for understanding their otherwise disparate scholarship and to orient workshop participants to how the researchers see their work relating to extant reflexivity practices and scholarship. Second, the presenters will each share the methodological processes and theoretical orientations they have used to engage in rigorous (and ongoing) reflexivity and consideration of their positionalities. Third, the presenters will engage participants in small- and whole-group discussion to shed further light on how identities, contexts, conceptual approaches, and other methodological considerations both call for and influence researcher reflexivity and identity-investigation.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods, including ethnographic, post-qualitative, interpretive, and case-based methods, as well as critical, design-based, and participatory and action research methods

Chair

• Laura-Ann Jacobs, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor

Participants

• Carolyn Hetrick, University of Michigan

• Laura-Ann Jacobs, University of Michigan - Ann Arbor