Using Complex Qualitative Research Designs to Understand Racialized Structures and Migrant Discrimination in Special Education

• In Event: Friday Roundtable Session 4:55 pm
  In Roundtable Session: New Directions in Critical Qualitative Inquiry (Table 33)

Abstract

The study of migrant parents’ involvement in special education requires polyperspectivity in order to understand the difference of migrants’ and school-systems’ constructions of the relation between school and family and the modes of migrant parents’ participation in educational processes. Based on an exemplary research study, the advantages of complex qualitative research designs in describing the connections and disconnections between multiple system contexts are discussed. In particular, the difference between narratives and organizational discourses are highlighted. The methodological paper fathoms the potential of complex qualitative research designs to understand racialized structures and migrant discrimination in special education.

Author

• Michael Urban, Goethe University Frankfurt