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AERA Qualitative Research Special Interest Group

Fall 2007

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History Column

Educational Researchers

Meet in London

Journey

Thoughts III,Val’s Favorite NYC Food

Reexivity and Ethical

Issues

Being There

Book Award

Dissertation Award

Call for Nominations

Egon G. Guba Invited Speaker

Yvonna S. Lincoln(Texas A & M University)

2008 New York

Turning Points and Advances in

Qualitative Research Methods

during our 21 years as a SIG

What is Good and Right but

not Necessarily True?

“Not everything we pursue has to

be determined to be true, it may

be determined to be good or right

but not necessarily true”. –Elliot

Eisner (AERA 2007 Chicago, com-

ments following the presentation

of the rst ever QRSIG LifeTimeAchievement Award at the 2007

AERA conference in Chicago).

For more of Eisner’s commentary,

visit the link below to listen to the

podcast: http://hasebroo.blog.usf.

edu/images/eisner.mp3

Eisner is referring to our role as

researchers, (and I’ll get to that) of

course, but I had to start my pursuitof the determining somewhere.

And so I set out to determine what

is good and right but not necessar-

ily true in Shelley’s World.

And these are some of the things

that came to mind, “Mommy, isn’t

this the best outt you’ve ever

seen?” says my 7 year daughter,

Echo, as she stands before me in

her spangled red stretch pants,

purple socks, tutu, green knit shawland tiara…is this true? IS IT? I ask

you. No, but it looks like the best

outt she’s ever seen and that is

good and right in Shelley’s world.

Mommy, can I be just like super

man when I grow up? Says my 5

Echo in New York - 2005 continued p. 4

By Shelley Stewart

University of South Florida

SIG Newsletter Editor

http://hasebroo.blog.usf.edu/images/eisner.mp3




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Some Historical Notes on

our SIG

By Valerie J. Janesick


SIG Historian and Webmaster

As we look back over

nearly 21 years of our existence

as a SIG, we have achieved

some remarkable milestones.

Over time we have established

the Egon G. Guba Invited Ad-

dress. Along with this we haveestablished a relationship with

the journal Qualitative Inquiry

which allows for the speaker to

send the paper to Qualitative

Inquiry for review and publica-

tion. Thus far all but two papers

have been published from our

Invited Address Series In ad-

dition we established a rela-

tionship with the International

Journal of Qualitative Studies inEducation, QSE, which allows

the Outstanding Dissertation

Award winner for our SIG to

send the paper version of the

dissertation to QSE for review

and publication. Furthermore,

we have an Outstanding Book

Award Committee working at

the moment to possibly award

the rst Book Award in NewYork City in April 2008. We

continue to grow in membership

and member participation. And

speaking of member participa-

tion please feel free to send your

ideas and comments or articles

for the newsletter to our News-

letter Editor, Shelley Stewart. Ournewsletter is using every possible

technological update. Please visit

our stock of newsletters on our

website. Our Website is lled with

valuable information and is often

used as a model for other SIGS.

Soon you will see a podcast of a

portion of Elliot Eisner’s remarks

upon receiving the SIG’s rst Life-

time Achievement Award.

We are not sure what lies ahead

for the next 20 years. However,

we will continue to work to build

our relationships with key jour-

nals, on line journals as well in

our eld and continue to build our

membership. In terms of an unof-

cial membership drive, can we

all agree to recruit jut one mem-

ber each for our SIG? Last year

we had an ofcial drive and it ishelping us tremendously. You may

already realize that we are allotted

program slots per head count so

a membership drive is most help-

ful. So to conclude, please come

to New York City in April, 2008,

to hear our Egon G. Guba Invited

Address to be delivered by Yvonna

S. Lincoln. Last year Yvonna was

unable to do the 20th Anniversary

Address due to family matters. She

has graciously agreed to deliver her

address in New York City on the

topic, “Turning Points and Advanc-

es in Qualitative Research methods

during our 21 Years as a SIG”.

Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor of

Higher Education at Texas A& M

University. Her numerous texts on

Qualitative Methods and the appli-

cation of these methods has earned

distinction among her peers, col-

leagues, and internationally. (See

the summer 2006 QRSIG newslet-

ter for more details on her work.)Her vision and clarity, her authen-

ticity and knowledge combine to

make her one of the key spokes-

persons in our eld. Please stop by

our business meeting in New York,

to hear this remarkable scholar so

near and dear to our SIG.

“In terms of an unofcialmembership drive, can we

all agree to recruit just one

member each for our SIG?”

Grand Central Station, Subway Terminal, New York

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year old son, Reign, to me as he

sports his superman jammies,

cape and all…is this possible?

I don’t know but IT IS noble

and worthy of pursuit. Mommy,

do angels go to kindergarten?

Is this true? Why not, I say! It

sounds good and right.

Is it true that my qualitative re-

search will save the world? No.But it does make a difference

and I know it does because I ask

participants and they tell me it

enhances their learning and so I

pursue it because it is good and

right. What is good and right in

your world?

continued from p. 1

Journey

I looked within my burning soul

and saw a self so very bold

a self I could understand.I saw love and hate minus the

thin line that separates

those two demons.

I saw my thoughts trying

to make me understand

what it is about a man

that makes him love and hate

with the same degree of passion.

© 2007 John J. Brown, Jr.

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Val’s Favorite NYC Restaurants

By Valerie J. Janesick


SIG Historian and Webmaster

Won’t break the budget and which will remind you that New Yorkers

know how to eat!

Le Pain Quotidien at the corner of 58th and Seventh Ave. French are, French bread, the best soups,

salads and sandwiches in the vicinity.

Café La Bonne Soupe 48 West 55th St. between 5th and Madison Fixed price three course for next to nothing and

various other specialties like Fondue, cheese boards,

roast chicken ala Provence.

Yolato (for frozen yogurt) Macdougal near Bleeker Every possible avor and nothing like it anywhere!

For Afternoon TeaTakashimaya Department Store, Tea Shoppe on 5th Ave.

For Unbelievable Hot Chocolate La Maison du Chocolat, 30 Rockerfeller Plaza near 6th Ave.

In the Times Warner Building at Columbus Cir.

Bar Masa Legendary 5 star chef, best presentation and tastes with

three course fxed price lunch.

Café Grey Lunch specials are worth the wait.

Bouchon Bakery TAKE OUT Side Center Delightful NY version of the California Icon.

The entire lower level of the Times Warner is Whole Foods!

Thoughts III

Look within yourself

and see

Your wants

Your abilitiesYour likes and

Your dislikes.

You feel Your emotions

and highest peaks of passion.

Then look at Me.

I have My own wants

My abilities

My likes and

My dislikes.

I feel My emotions

and highest peaks of passion.

I am as important to Me

as You are to You.

Realize this

and

Don’t tread on Me.


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It is rather customary to promis-

cuously interconnect the popu-

lar methodological conception

of reexivity with multi-level

metatheoretical analyses, com-

plicated representational tactics

and strategies, self-conscious

knowledge-production processes

and, in general, epistemologi-cal questions and answers. But

what does the reexive critique

of the educational researcher (or

the knowing subject) exactly

involve? What does it really

mean for our daily educational

research practices? And, what

are its ultimate ethical implica-

tions for the overall discourse

of qualitative methodology and

education?

Focusing on a radical meta-

methodological strand of inqui-

ry, it is practically demonstrable

that the ethical dimension of

reexivity is rarely stressed, or

even recognized and acknowl-

edged, in an explicit manner.

Although reexivity is a well-

established and well-respected

concept in the qualitativeresearch tradition, it has not

previously been seen as an ethi-

cal notion. Indeed, reexivity is

not usually seen as connected

with ethics or “microethics”

(Komesaroff) at all. Further -

more, Western reexive think -

ing about knowledge, culture and

education often tends to (somehow)

reproduce the “one epistemological

size ts all” standpoint of Eurocen-

trism, to arrogantly exclude alter -

native post-colonial theorizations

and to ignore the irreducibility of

the “ethical dimension”.

The irreducibility of ethics ren-ders epistemological reexivity as

inadequate or incomplete. Hence,

reexivity, as a rather community

level concern, should no more

regarded as a mere conceptual tool

for a pragmatic, self-referential un-

derstanding of educational theory

and research. Following Marcel

Mauss, it should be also regarded

as a potentially helpful (anti-indi-

vidualistic) guide for a new ethic

of academic life as well as a way

of thinking and living (Gouldner)

that will actually lead to ethical

research practice. Epistemologi-

cal and ethical aspects of reexiv-

ity are thus of equal importance.

These aspects should complement

and reinforce each other, mutually

contributing to “good science” and

“good life”.The innovative “reinvention” of the

ethical dimension, within contem-

porary educational research, argu-

ably entails the substantial incorpo-

ration of the “weak” performative

circular reasoning as well as a new

reexive ethos (and aesthetic) of

scientic modesty. To put it simply,

the celebration of the (inescapable)

vulnerability of our arguments is

actually paying a compliment to

them! The issue here is indeed the

fruitful pluralist maximization of

both ethical and cognitive possibili-

ties. In this respect, the “it could be

otherwise” clause of liberal intel-lectual inquiry remains central to

our inter-disciplinary world- and

self-accounts.

Ultimately, reexivity as an “ethi-

co-epistemological” project, or as

individual and collective ethical

reection and action, is not easily

compatible neither with the old, in-

terest-free pursuit of truth nor with

the traditional, universalistic idealof epistemological perfectionism.

But it is indeed compatible with the

anti-hegemonic ethical principle of

epistemological weakness, as well

as with a genuine stance of “intel-

lectual humility and tolerance”

(Rosenau). In this line, ethical

reexivity does not entail a “stron-

ger objectivity” (Bourdieu, Hard-

ing) but rather a modest notion of

reexive objectivity disassociatedfrom Methodological Dualism.

Reexivity and Ethical Issues

By Nicos Katrivesis

University of Macedonia, Thessalonica,Greece

Reader in Sociology

By Charalambos Tsekeris

Greek Journal Intellectum Editorial Board

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Qualitative Research SIG

Book Award

The QR-SIG announces a new

award, to be given annually for

the best book in the eld of quali-

tative research from the previous

year. Books may be nominated

by any member in good standing

of the SIG. Nominated authorsthemselves must be members in

good standing of the SIG. Nomi-

nations will be accepted through

January 1, 2007, for books

published in 2006. To nominate

a book, forward a letter describ-

ing how the book contributes to

the eld of qualitative research,

along with complete publication

information, to Judith Gouwens,chair of the book award com-

mittee (Roosevelt University

College of Education, 430 S.

Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL

60605). Robert Donmoyer and

Lisa Mazzei are members of the

book award committee.

Being There

By Andy Carter

Roosevelt University

Professor

Aristotle dened phronesis

As practical knowledge.

Neither technical nor abstract,

It emerges in the process ofbecoming,

Where learning how to do

Comes through being there

Teaching is a practical art.

Assisting others in their be-

coming,

It assumes mutual benet

Through listening and con-

versations,

Where learning how to learnComes through being there

Recognizing the value of

teachers

Requires an appreciation of

what they do.

Understanding a teacher’s

story

Troubles the boundaries be-

tween science and art,

Where learning how to tell it

Comes through being there.

The Newsletter Editor offers her

sincerest apologies to Dr. Carter for

a misprint of his poem in the Spring

2007 QRSIG Newsletter - the poem is

printed in its entirety here.

Thoughts IIWalking through the halls of life

I nd it hard to comprehend

the endlessness of the toils and

strife

that lies within each room that

I must pass on my short journey.

I wonder if death is as hard to

die

as life is as hard to live?


“New York City sits bold

and beautiful, brash and

bounteous, a Big Apple,

representing the best the

country and people have

to offer. Never has there

been a city like it, nor will

there be again…It’s a city

of achievers, often beset by

adversity, but never bested

by circumstances”

-- John Clementis

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The Qualitative Research SIG

invites nominations of disser-

tations that make outstanding

contributions to methodology of

qualitative educational research.

The winner of the qualitative

award will also be recognized

by the American Educational

Research Association.

Dissertations completed during

the 2006-2007 academic year,

prior to December 7, 2007 will

be eligible for consideration.

Nominations must be received

by Friday, December 7, 2007.

Late nominations or incom-

plete nominations will not be

considered. Award nalists will

be contacted the third week of

January 2008. The nalists maythen be asked to supply 3 copies

of the dissertation to distribute to

the committee for further consid-

eration. Send nomination pack-

ages to:

Dr. Karen Tonso

Wayne State University

#341 Education,

5425 Gullen Mall

Detroit, Michigan 48202

To nominate a dissertation, the nomination packet must include 3 sets of

the following ve (5) items:

1. One letter of faculty endorsement from a member of the student’s dis-

sertation committee who is an AERA member, attesting that the disserta-

tion was completed by the student during the time period specied and that

the faculty member nominating or endorsing the nomination served on the

dissertation committee. Please also include the oral defense date. This let-

ter should include a brief clarication of the purposes, scope and quality of

the student’s dissertation research, an explanation of how the dissertation

contributes to the eld of qualitative methodology (in terms of theory and practice) and a discussion about why it is deserving of this methodological

award.

2. A title page for the dissertation (including university/college, name of

the professor chairing the dissertation committee and a complete list of com-

mittee members). In addition, please add to the title page complete contact

information of either the student or the nominator that can be used for all

correspondence regarding the award.

3. The Table of Contents from the dissertation.

4. A summary of the dissertation, prepared by the student, that gives an

overview of the research, a description of individual chapters, and a state-

ment that provides a context for how the representative chapter that is being

sent ts within the overall dissertation. (double-spaced, 12 pt. type, 10 pages

max.)

5. One representative chapter from the dissertation that best exemplies

the contribution of the dissertation to theorizing qualitative methodology.

Criteria for judging the merits of the dissertations include the signi-

cance and timeliness of the methodological issue(s) addressed, the

integrity and quality of the discussion of the methods used for an em-

pirical study, and the contribution of the dissertation to the advance-

ment of knowledge about an area of or issue in qualitative research

methodology. Dissertation nominations must add to the theoretical

and practical knowledge about contemporary methodological issues

to be considered for the award. For example, a recent winner exam-

ined ctional writing genres and reexive analyses of the researcher’s

relationships with those studied. Dissertations that use qualitative

methods, but that do not contribute signicantly to the theorization of

methodology and substantially address contemporary issues in meth-

odology are not eligible for the award.

2008 Qualitative Research

SIG Outstanding

Dissertation Award

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OfcersSIG Chair

Leslie Rebecca Bloom,

Iowa State University

Program Co-Chairs

Mirka Koro- Ljungberg,

University of Florida

Deborah Ceglowski,University of North

Carolina-Charlotte

Newsletter Editor

Shelley Stewart,


Historian and Website

Coordinator

Valerie J. Janesick,


Call for Nominations for Ofcers for the QRSIGRecently AERA approved SIG ofcer terms for three years. Start-

ing this year, our SIG will begin 3 year terms for all ofces as they

come up.

Call for nominations for the Chair of the QRSIG, 2008-2011:

Requirements:

1. Must be a member in good standing of the QRSIG

2. Must be a member in good standing of AERA

3. Must have served the SIG in some capacity in the past such

as another ofcer role, or membership on a committee4. Must be publishing in the area of Qualitative research methods

5. Must be at an institution that will support the work of AERA

and our QRSIG

6. Must attend and conduct business meeting for the next three

years at AERA annual meeting

Call for Nominations of Program co-chair for the QRSIG, 2008-

2011:

Requirements:

1. Must be a member in good standing of AERA and the QRSIG

2. Must be willing to shape program and with the existing

co-chair for two years of the term, with the idea of leading the

program denition during the third year of the term.

3. Should attend the business meetings for the next three years.

Send all nominations in the form of a paragraph to the current

QRSIG chair, Leslie Bloom at:

[email protected]

SIG CHAIR Ofcer duties can be found at:http://www.aera.net/Default.aspx?menu_id=208&id=772

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