The Role of the Methodologist, Methodological Expertise, and Methodological Responsibility in Qualitative Inquiry

Session Submission Type: Invited Session

Abstract

This symposium aims to create a space for considerations regarding the methodologist, methodological work, and methodological responsibility. Contemporarily, the technocrat has come to stand in for the methodologist as methodological work over-emphasizes concerns regarding the technique of method. In response, we offer methodological responsibility or, the need for the methodologist to exceed him/herself through making possible new trajectories or avenues of methodological being. The symposium will begin with participants responding to a series of questions distributed beforehand and will conclude by panelists and audience members collaborating to develop a series of responses and action-steps concerning the role of the methodologist, methodological expertise, and methodological responsibility in educational inquiry.

Sub Unit

• Division D - Measurement and Research Methodologies / Section 3: Qualitative Research Methods

Cosponsor

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Penny A. Pasque, University of Oklahoma

Participants

• Judith Preissle, University of Georgia

• Michael G. Gunzenhauser, University of Pittsburgh

• Stacy Otto, Illinois State University

• Mirka E. Koro-Ljungberg, University of Florida

• Aaron M. Kuntz, The University of Alabama

Discussant

• Maggie Maclure, Manchester Metropolitan University