Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education offers a path-breaking explanation of how critical theories can be used within the analysis of qualitative data to inform research processes, such as data collection, analysis, and interpretation. This contributed volume offers examples of qualitative data analysis techniques and exemplars of empirical studies that employ critical theory concepts in data analysis. By creating a clear and accessible bridge between data analysis and critical social theories, this book helps scholars and researchers effectively translate their research designs and findings to multiple audiences for more equitable outcomes and disruption of historical and contemporary inequality.
Contents
Foreword: Reflections on Research that is Humanizing
Maisha T. WinnPreface
Ashley N. Gaskew, Jamile Lee-Johnson, and Rachelle Winkle-Wagner
Section I The Need for Partnering Critical Theory and Data Analysis in Education
Chapter 1 The Missing Link in Data Analysis: An Introduction to the Use of Critical Theory to Guide Data Analysis
Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Ashley Gaskew, and Jamila Lee-Johnson
Chapter 2 The Missing Infinite
Phil Frances Carspecken
Chapter 3 Trouble the Translating: Border Thinking, Indigenous Knowledges, and Undoing Method
Nathaniel Beck
Chapter 4 De-Norming the Syllabus: An Analysis Situated in Critical and Caring Pedagogies
Virginia M. Schwarz
Section II Critical Theory and Analysis with Marginalized Populations