A Duoethnographic Reflection on Moving Toward a Queer and Socially Responsive Interview Process

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Wednesday 10:50 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Generating Possibilities Via Critical Reflections and Expansion of Methods (Table 10)

Abstract

Duoethnography is situated in the practice and examination of social justice, centering collaborative meaning making about a shared phenomenon such as qualitative interviewing. As a team of researchers, we share data from a duoethnographic project where we reflect upon the experience of being and doing socially responsible, queer research. Utilizing rich duoethnographic data, we illuminate how deep reflections can offer scholars an opportunity to interrogate (and in line with the AERA theme, potentially remedy and repair) educational research methods–namely qualitative interviews. We present three emergent categories that offer education scholars insights into queered educational research: 1) Who we are as individuals and researchers, 2) power dynamics between researcher and participant, and 3) researcher activism, accountability and humanizing practice.

Authors

• Meg C Jones, Champlain College

• Desiree L. Forsythe, Chapman University

• Annemarie Vaccaro, University of Rhode Island

• Ryan A. Miller, University of Tennessee

• Rachel E. Friedensen, St. Cloud State University

• Rachael Forester, Nonprofit HR

• Ezekiel Kimball, University of Maine