Beyond a Backdrop: Examining the Role of Place in Place-Bound Qualitative Higher Education Scholarship

• In Event: Current Issues in Higher Education

Abstract

This methodological review uses critical place inquiry to examine how qualitative place-bound higher education scholarship has and has not accounted for the geographic, historical, and sociocultural context of the place in which the research is situated through research design, data analysis, discussion of findings and implications.

Authors

• Kathleen E. Gillon, University of Maine

• Ashley N. Stone, Southern Methodist University