Complexities, Emotions, and Confections: School Counselors and Researchers Confront the North Carolina Parents' Bill of Rights

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Abstract

What complexities, emotions, and confections emerge when researchers and school counselors confront NC Parents’ Bill of Rights? How can research methodologies and analysis evolve to address the complexity of experience for researchers and participants? To guide our study, we apply the central tenets of general “interpretive qualitative research methodology” or IQRM (Kahlke, 2014, p. 39; Merriam & Tisdell, 2015). The versatility of IQRM encourages using multiple strategies in projects like ours. We used the assemblage data collection approach (Denshire & Lee, 2013) and methods including qualitative interviews, surveys, and framing the voices of the counselors whose concerns remain unheard. Our findings reflect the profound tensions school counselors experience between their new legal obligations and the ethical standards of their profession.

Authors

• Sarah Cornette, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

• William Pryor, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill