There's Something About Bicycles: Cycling Methodologies and Qualitative Research

• In Event: AERA Roundtable Session Sunday 11:40 am Four Seasons Ballroom 1
  In Roundtable Session: Art and New Materialisms: Creative Approaches to Inquiry (Table 5)

Abstract

This paper introduces cycling methodologies, a novel approach to qualitative inquiry in which participants use bicycles to observe and make art as a means of exploring phenomena. Cycling methodologies enrich qualitative inquiry by (1) deflating human exceptionalism and privilege that posthumanism attempts to divest from, (2) offering an embodied means of engaging with data, and (3) challenging normative ethics practices. Grounded in posthuman and new materialist theoretical frameworks, the paper suggests cycling methodologies as pertinent to the future imaginaries of just educational research in qualitative inquiry.

Author

• Whitney Danielle Blaisdell, University of Regina