18.059 - Research Without Method in Post-Qualitative Inquiry

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Post qualitative research (St.Pierre, 2011) takes account of the ontological turn in educational research that refuses pre-existing, instrumental, process- and methods-driven social science research methodologies based on humanist descriptions of language and being. But if a researcher does not use methodologies and methods carefully described in textbooks, journal articles, and university research courses, how does one inquire? Jackson and Mazzei (2012) encouraged researchers to think with theory in qualitative research, and a special issue of Qualitative Inquiry (in process) edited by Elizabeth St.Pierre and Hillevi Lenz-Taguchi focuses on using concepts instead of methods in our inquiry. Papers in this theoretical/methodological interactive symposium discuss how one might “do” educational research without method in the post method space of post qualitative inquiry.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• Elizabeth A. St. Pierre, University of Georgia

Papers

• Being Methodology-Free: Untraining Qualitative Researchers - Elizabeth A. St. Pierre, University of Georgia

• Rethinking the Temporality of Research Methods - Elizabeth De Freitas, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Deleuze's Athleticism: Encounters With the Outside of Method - Alecia Youngblood Jackson, Appalachian State University

• Mobilizing Sense and Nonsense for Research Without Method - Maggie Maclure, Manchester Metropolitan University

• Concepts as a Contour for Inquiry - Lisa A. Mazzei, University of Oregon

Discussant

• David R Cole, Western Sydney University