Qualitative Research: Challenging the Orthodoxies in Standard Academic Discourse(s)

by Kouritzin; Sandra G.

• ISBN13: 9780805848380
• ISBN10: 080584838X
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2008-12-22
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Evocative and provocative, this book presents the points of view of scholars in the social sciences who used non-standard methods or writing practices to challenge the "research-as-usual" paradigm in the academy, while at the same time meeting the demands of quality and rigor set by their university examining committees and ethical review boards. The intent is to encourage new researchers who are also considering such a path. The authors discuss their lived personal experiences within and against traditional academic research and writing traditions, as well as their struggles and eventual successes. Chapters are written in dramatic form, in dialogue, in story, and include poetry, vignettes, testimonials, and autobiographical accounts. Collectively, they form a unique, distinctive situated polyphonic case study of research in the social sciences from several perspectives, challenging the orthodoxies. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword: Forward Researching	p. ix
Preface	p. xv
Acknowledgments	p. xix
Introduction: Pivotal Moments	p. 1
The Doctoral Journey: Reflections on Disruptions and Interruptions
Finding the Stories, Telling the Story: Narrative in the Academy	p. 13
Collaborative Inquiry as Illuminated Manuscript	p. 27
Entangled Lives: Inquiring into the Negotiation of Relational Stories to Live By in Doctoral Studies and Research	p. 45
The Chaucerian Dissertation Model That "Got Away"	p. 67
Transcendence: The Journey from Hard Data into Artistic Depiction-Theatre as Representation	p. 83
Afternoon Tea at Su's: Participant Voice and Community in Critical Feminist Ethnography	p. 103
Altered Landscapes: Not the End of the Journey	p. 121
Whose Story Is It Anyway?	p. 135
Drinking U.S. Water: Flowing Narratives of a Traveling Korean Woman Researcher in U.S. Higher Education	p. 151
Integrated Inquiry: Transforming Multiple Research Perspectives	p. 169
After the Journey: Reflections on the Afterlife of Research
Re-membering Michael: Emotionality, Vulnerability, and the Research Process	p. 183
Questioning as a Pedagogical Tool in Teaching and Research	p. 199
Who's Afraid of Virginia's Daughters? Writing, Research, and Relations	p. 217
Teaching and Learning Qualitative Research: Educational Space as a Fluid	p. 229
Narrative Inquiry and the Discovery of Self within the Academy	p. 247
Getting Away With "It"	p. 263
Conclusion: Valediction, Requiem, and Invocation for Research(ers)	p. 267
Index	p. 269
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