Post-Qualitative Inquiry Practices for Beginners

• In Event: Moscone Center North Roundtable Session 7

Session Type: Roundtable Session

Abstract

Post qualitative inquiry (St.Pierre, 2011) has paved a way for poststructural theories to inform educational research by disrupting “good old-fashioned qualitative inquiry” (Brinkmann, 2015) practices in favor of new approaches commensurate with posthuman, new materialist, and new empirical work. It is a direct response to the longstanding episteme that pervades the field of educational research that positions method as a core tenet of what makes social science research rigorous. Subsequently, poststructural scholars often find themselves forced to map methods onto philosophical projects in which prescriptive humanistic approaches to research are incommensurate. This theoretical/methodological interactive symposium opens the conversation to what is possible in post qual by addressing the issue with method and discussing potential new practices for inquiry.

Sub Unit

• SIG-Qualitative Research

Chair

• William Fassbender, University of Georgia

Papers

• Issues in Post-Qualitative Inquiry: The Methodology Trap and Possibilities Out - William Fassbender, University of Georgia

• Beginning With Concepts and Unlocking Possibilities Through Post-Qualitative Inquiry - Briana Bivens, University of Georgia

• A More Ethical Inquiry Approach With New Materialisms Into School Improvement Policy Implementation - Cheryl Hudson, University of Georgia - Athens

• Thinking With Theory and Software: "The Digital" in/and/as Post-Qualitative Inquiry - Richard Dunk, Manchester Metropolitan University

Discussant

• Jon Michael Wargo, Boston College