Come join your your QR SIG colleagues at our annual business meeting and celebration.

The agenda is also posted under the “Annual Meeting” tab above.

Qualitative Research SIG Program Highlights—AERA 2012

The Qualitative Research SIG is excited by our program for this year’s annual meeting. We had so many excellent submissions and the decisions of what to include and how to include were a challenge, to say the least. We have aimed for maximum diversity amidst this abundance of quality in the SIG program submissions. Please find listed below the sessions sponsored by the Qualitative Research SIG and those that we co-sponsor with Division D (Measurement and Research Methodology) and Division F (History and Historiography). More information about the authors and paper titles can be found in the searchable program on the AERA website: www.aera.net.

Special Sessions

Qualitative Research SIG Business Meeting, Egon Guba Invited Lecture, and 25th Anniversary Celebration

Endogenous Research: Exploring Qualitative Research Within Indigenous Knowledges and Communities, Marie Battiste (University of Saskatchewan)

Mon, Apr 16 – 6:15pm – 8:15pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – North Junior Ballroom C

Fireside Chat with Valerie J. Janesick: Oral History for the Qualitative Researcher: Choreographing the Story

Fri, Apr 13 – 2:15pm – 3:45pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Fourth Level – South Granville

Symposia

Critical Qualitative Research and the Corporatized University: On a Collision Course

Mon, Apr 16 – 12:25pm – 1:55pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Pavilion Ballroom D

Doing Deleuze: Exploring Qualitative Research Methodologies in Education

Sat, Apr 14 – 8:15am – 10:15am, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Pavilion Ballroom A

Lone Scholar as “Not Enough”: The (Im)possibility of Authorship in Postmodern Research

Tue, Apr 17 – 2:15pm – 3:45pm, Vancouver Convention Center, Floor First Level – West Room 111&112

New Material Feminist Methodologies

Sat, Apr 14 – 10:35am – 12:05pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Pavilion Ballroom D

Supporting Epistemological Diversity and Widening the Struggle for Justice: New Directions in Critical Qualitative Research

Sat, Apr 14 – 12:25pm – 1:55pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Fourth Level – North Port McNeill

The Virtual in Qualitative Research

Sun, Apr 15 – 8:15am – 9:45am, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Lower Lobby Level – North Gulf Islands BCD

Transactions of Thought and Action: A Mediated Discourse Analysis Workshop

Mon, Apr 16 – 12:25pm – 1:55pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Fourth Level – North Port Alberni

Visual Methods in Qualitative Research

Tue, Apr 17 – 12:25pm – 1:55pm, Vancouver Convention Center, Floor Third Level – West Room 303

Volatile Bodies and Boundaries: Ethical Dilemmas in Teaching and Research

Mon, Apr 16 – 4:05pm – 5:35pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – North Junior Ballroom B

Roundtables

Applying Foucault to Qualitative Inquiry in Education: Looking at Resistance as Opportunity for New Knowledge

Roundtable Session 65, Sun, Apr 15 – 10:35am – 12:05pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Orca

Exploring New Methodologies

Roundtable Session 112, Tue, Apr 17 – 10:35am – 12:05pm, Vancouver Convention Center, Floor Second Level – East Room

Focus on Methods

Roundtable Session 6, Fri, Apr 13 – 12:00pm – 1:30pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Beluga

Perspectives on Data Analysis

Roundtable Session 48, Sat, Apr 14 – 4:05pm – 5:35pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Beluga

Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Critical Theories in Qualitative Research

Roundtable Session 75, Sun, Apr 15 – 2:15pm – 3:45pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Azure

Issues in Recruiting Participants and Collecting Data From Historically Underrepresented Populations

Roundtable Session 42, Sat, Apr 14 – 2:15pm – 3:45pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Beluga

Researcher Positionality

Roundtable Session 69, Sun, Apr 15 – 12:25pm – 1:55pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Beluga

Voice and Identity

Roundtable Session 83, Mon, Apr 16 – 8:15am – 9:45am, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Finback

Which River Metaphor Is Yours: Culturally Responsive and Socially Responsible Methodologies

Roundtable Session 99, Mon, Apr 16 – 2:15pm – 3:45pm, Sheraton Wall Centre, Floor Third Level – South Blue Whale

Co-Sponsored Sessions

Symposia

Complicating Qualitative Data: Philosophy, Politics, and Power

Sun, Apr 15 – 2:15pm – 3:45pm, Marriott Pinnacle, Floor Third Level – Pinnacle I (with Division D, Section 3)

Haptic History: International Studies of Touchable Things (and Other Lacunae) in Educational History

Sun, Apr 15 – 10:35am – 12:05pm, Vancouver Convention Center, Floor Third Level – West Room 306 (with Division F)

The Role of the Methodologist, Methodological Expertise, and Methodological Responsibility in Qualitative Inquiry

Fri, Apr 13 – 2:15pm – 3:45pm, Vancouver Convention Center, Floor Second Level – West Room 204

Roundtables

Exploring Methods for History of Education

Roundtable Session 124, Tue, Apr 17 – 2:15pm – 3:45pm, Vancouver Convention Center, Floor First Level – East Ballroom A (with Division F)

Technological Advances in Qualitative Inquiry and Visual Methods

Roundtable Session 105, Tue, Apr 17 – 8:15am – 9:45am, Vancouver Convention Center, Floor First Level – East Ballroom C (with Division D, Section 3)

Poster Sessions

Qualitative Research Poster Session

Poster Session 7, Sat, Apr 14 – 4:05pm – 5:35pm, Vancouver Convention Center, Floor First Level – East Ballroom B (with Division D, Section 3)

We invite everybody to join in the celebration at the 2012 AERA Annual Meeting in Vancouver.

QR SIG Business Meeting and 25th Anniversary Celebration

Monday April 16th, 6:15-8:15pm
Sheraton Wall Centre, Third level, North Junior Ballroom C

We will celebrate but also report past year’s activities, announce award winners,  Dr. Marie Battiste will be giving a talk, SIG members will look back and reflect on past events, and we will have opportunities for networking. More detailed agenda will be posted later.

Dinner

Following our business meeting, 8:15-10pm
Location TBD
RSVP’s needed
RSVP to Mirka by April 1st.

All members are invited!!

FYI and Happy New Year 2012!

Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research: Using Problem-Centered Methodologies by Patricia Leavy (Left Coast Press, 2011) presents an overview of transdisciplinarity as a problem-centered approach to research. Transdisciplinarity is a social justice oriented approach to research and may provide a pathway for addressing major contemporary challenges such as sustainability, violence, unequal development and health and well-being. Essentials of Transdisciplinary Research provides a user-friendly guide to the key principles and research design strategies needed for building a transdisciplinary project. This book is ideal for researchers across the disciplines, graduate students designing theses projects and undergraduate courses in research methods, qualitative research, mixed methods, service learning, or community-based research as well as any courses that emphasize critical thinking, problem solving, problem-based learning and/or research.

Mirka

Dear Colleague,

In 1991, former University of North Texas faculty member, scholar and childhood educator, Velma E. Schmidt left her estate to the institution to establish the first endowed chair position at the university. Over the years, this endowment has facilitated a range of projects in higher education, community well-being, and scholarly research. Focusing on the complex social, cultural and global conditions in which we are all now embedded, the coming series of Velma E. Schmidt lectures are constructed to further our reconceptualizations of research in ways that reveal and attempt to resolve social justice issues while crossing academic and disciplinary boundaries. To that end, two Velma E.Schmidt lectures will be featured at the first annual meeting of the Texas Collaborative for Critical Qualitative Inquiry. This meeting will be held at the University of North Texas on Friday, February 24, 2012, 10:30 am to 4:00 pm.

The Velma E. Schmidt lecturers will be Norman K. Denzin, Sociology – University of Illinois, Champaign/Urbana, Lecture title: Revisiting the Qualitative Manifesto, and Yvonna S. Lincoln, Education – Texas A&M University, College Station, Lecture title: Conflict in the Offing: Critical Social Science in the Corporatized University. The panel discussants will include Douglas Foley, Cultural Studies – University of TX, Austin, and Fran Huckaby, Education – Texas Christian University.

The meeting is open to everyone who is interested and registers. Early registration (by January 18, 2012) is $50 and includes parking (for those not already part of the UNT campus), lunch, and 2 scholarly publications from Left Coast Press. These books are The Qualitative Manifesto: A Call to Arms and Qualitative Inquiry and Global Crisis.

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We encourage qualitative, critical qualitative, and social justice researchers and others who are interested in these issues to attend.
Best wishes and see you in February,

My contact information can be found below.

Gaile

Gaile S. Cannella, Ed.D., Professor
Velma E. Schmidt Endowed Chair in Early Childhood Studies
Critical Social Science and Qualitative Research Methodologies
Department of Teacher Education and Administration
College of Education
1155 Union circle #310740
University of North Texas
Matthews Hall 206E
Denton, TX 76203-5017
940-565-4901
Gaile.Cannella@unt.edu