The (Im)possibility of Methods in Curriculum Study and Teacher Education, and Its “Alternative” Investigation

• In Event: Millennium Hotel Roundtable Session 3

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

This session opens up the questions on the (im)possibilities of methods in curriculum study and teacher education. Sharing concerns on truth-making and data-collection as contingent, this session engages with the ethical, political and historical nature of educational research and provides alternative investigations on the methods. By approaching methods as inscribed reasoning in educational research, this session problematizes how “data” emerge, and explores the diverse relations of representation, reality and researcher. The diverse fields of educational research, including critical developmental study, inclusive education research, comparative and international education research, feminist and ethnographic study, and teacher education research, will provide multiple entry-points to engage in the conversations on methods, informing orthodoxies embodied in the methods and finding its alternative possibilities.

Sub Unit

• Division B - Curriculum Studies / Division B - Section 3: Methodologies and Ethics (The Shapes of Curriculum)

Chair

• Julie E. McLeod, University of Melbourne

Papers

• Ungrounding Discourse: Critical Ethnography, Method, and the Political - Christopher Mark Kirchgasler, The University of Kansas

• Detoxing Practices: Challenging Pedagogical Objectives and Research Practices - Sabine Krause, TU Dortmund University

• Historicizing Comparative Education Research Method and Disrupting Its Terrain - Ji-Hye Kim, Korean Educational Development Institute

• Meditations on Experience and Subjectivity: An Epistemological Journey in Ethnographic Research in Education - Belén Hernando-Lloréns, University of Iowa

• The Inscribed (Im)Possibilities of Observation as a "Method" in Teacher Education - Sun Young Lee, University of Wisconsin - Madison

Discussant

• Julie E. McLeod, University of Melbourne