Innovative Qualitative Methodologies for Public Scholarship

Session Type: Invited Speaker Session

Abstract

This session is designed to increase educational researchers’ capacity to develop and use innovative qualitative methods to more effectively engage diverse publics and participants who are from outside academic contexts in education scholarship. Presenters will share five-minute videos that capture a variety of methods and illustrate innovative and participant-driven aspects of those methods. They will focus on methodological discourses, design details, and examples of scholarly engagement with non-researchers. Presenters will focus specifically on techniques that can increase the methodological capacity of AERA members to engage the public throughout the research process. They will also illustrate how citizens are important knowledge creators and knowledge brokers. Presenters will highlight insights about research methods, from their own work, that illustrate how and why diverse practices are needed to engage participants.

Sub Unit

• AERA Presidential Session

Chair

• Mirka E. Koro-Ljungberg, Arizona State University

Participants

• Django Paris, Michigan State University

• Kathleen M. Gallagher, OISE/University of Toronto

• Wendy L. Luttrell, Graduate Center City University of New York

• Emily Clark, Graduate Center City University of New York

• Jimena Trejo Oropeza, Youth Solidarities Across Borders

• Mayme Francyne Huckaby, Texas Christian University

• Ruth Kravetz, Community Voices for Public Education

• Alpa Sridharan, Community Voices for Public Education

Discussants

• Lisa A. Mazzei, University of Oregon

• Donna Marie Johnson, Independent Scholar

• Lesley Bartlett, University of Wisconsin - Madison

• Rubén Gaztambide-Fernández, University of Toronto - Ontario Institute for Studies in Education