Designing and Using Interactive Elicitation Methods in Research Involving Contentious Social Studies Subject Matter

• In Event: Sheraton Roundtable Session Three
  In Roundtable Session: Elicitation and Expertise in Social Studies Research and Teacher Education (Table 12)

Abstract

Qualitative verbal reporting methodologies, which elicit and encourage thinking aloud, are valuable tools in social studies education research for drawing out mediated, socially situated ideas and discourses. This paper draws from two studies that used interactive, small-group elicitation tasks – one focused on young people’s understanding of political ideologies and behaviors and their cultural and ethical grounds, and the other focused on teachers’ affective experiences and pedagogical reasoning related to teaching difficult histories – to engage participants in discussions of sensitive content. It offers powerful rationales and tools for expanding the theoretical bases, discursive aims, and tools and procedures associated with verbal reporting methodologies.

Authors

• Kevin W. Meuwissen, University of Rochester
  Presenting Author

• Rebecca Rosen, University of Rochester
  Presenting Author