73.022 - Asking Queer(er) Questions: Using Queer Scholarship to Reshape Qualitative Educational Research

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Eve Sedgwick concluded that the homosexual/heterosexual binary has become so central to contemporary Western societies that failure to interrogate it renders analysis of virtually any aspect of culture damaged. This symposium takes up Sedgwick’s challenge a generation later to more deliberatively turn to Queer Theory as a resource for constructing theoretically and methodologically vibrant qualitative research designs that interrogate a wide range of human experiences. Queer Theory’s contribution for qualitative inquiry is less about a mapping onto the bodies of sexualized and gendered minorities and more as a critical analysis of all iterations of normalizing, compulsory, and dominant modes of social organization. Symposium papers and discussion engage with the theoretical and methodological possibilities offered to qualitative researchers by the queer.

Sub Unit

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

Chair

• Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University

Papers

• Scavenging for Data: Queering Educational Research - Catherine A. Lugg, Rutgers University; Jason P. Murphy, Rutgers University

• Queer, Quotidian, and Questioning in Global Times: Engaging Hybrid Identities and Cultures in Education - Nina Asher, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

• The Practice of Radical Love: Queer Theology as Pushing Methodological Boundaries in Qualitative Educational Research - Reta Ugena Whitlock, Kennesaw State University

• Queering a Tempered Social Justice Discourse in Educational Research: Alternate Possibilities for Qualitative Inquirers - Michael Patrick O'Malley, Texas State University; Colleen A. Capper, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant

• Janet L. Miller, Teachers College, Columbia University