Overcoming Master Narratives: Unforgetting, Reimagining, and Reconstructing Through Quantitative Ethnography

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

This symposium brings together scholars of race, immigration, and identity to explore how Quantitative Ethnography (QE) can challenge dominant narratives and center marginalized experiences. Drawing on critical, feminist, decolonial, and diasporic frameworks, presenters reimagine QE to surface epistemic complexity and promote equity and justice. Studies include cross-cultural digital learning among Kenyan and U.S. high school students, intra-Black relational experiences among college students, sociocritical AI literacies among Black middle school girls, and reflections on disaster preparedness among Latino undergraduates during COVID-19. Together, these projects show how QE traces power, amplifies underrepresented knowledge, and embraces interpretive plurality. Aligned with AERA’s 2026 theme, the session offers methodological innovations that recover erased histories and envision inclusive, justice-centered futures in education research.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Division D - Section 4: Multiple and Mixed Methodologies

Chair

• Brendan R. Eagan, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Papers

• Overcoming the assumption of Global North dominance, valuing contributions of the Global South - Danielle Pascual Espino, Pepperdine University

• Navigating Tensions and Togetherness: A Quantitative Ethnographic Exploration of Black College Students’ Intragroup Experiences - Adaurennaya C. Onyewuenyi, The College of New Jersey

• Using Quantitative Ethnography to Model How Black Girls Develop Sociocritical AI Literacies - Golnaz Arastoopour Irgens, Vanderbilt University

• Visualizing Racism: Towards a QuantCrit Epistemic Network Analysis - Nichole M. Garcia, Rutgers University

Session Organizer

• Adaurennaya C. Onyewuenyi, The College of New Jersey

Discussant

• Brendan R. Eagan, University of Wisconsin - Madison