Critical Theory, Methods, and Design in Educational Research
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Weis and Fine examine critical research designs with young people from elite, working class, and impoverished class fractions, as well as across racial and ethnic groups, including those experiencing structural dispossession and those enjoying privilege.
Curated to be useful to today's students and future generations of scholars, the volume chronicles the sustained impacts of unjust state systems and dives into vibrant fissures in which the imagination flourishes and possibilities grow.
Chapters explore rich linkages of theory and methods knotty questions of collaboration, partnership, and ethics and designs that trace social relations over time and space. A newly developed introduction and conclusion bookend six previously published chapters, many coauthored with a range of colleagues, animating research studies with a broad range of young people and young adults navigating the uneven landscapes of education in urban America.
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Details linked to research methodologies, including multi-site longitudinal ethnography and longitudinal ethnographic interviews, as well as participatory action research that the authors, among others, have advanced in critical educational studies.
Provides examples of educational research that interrogate inequities and document radical possibilities by race, class, gender, immigration status, and sexuality.
Examines projects that have been designed alongside and by vibrant research teams from across schools, prisons, youth movements, and public and private educational P- plus settings.
Interrogates how the authors evolved innovative research methods and ethics attentive to "studying up," mapping, national youth-led surveys, participatory inquiry behind bars, and with middle school students.
Offers educational designs that address inequities in STEM education and outcomes and the impact of state violence on young people as well as methods for understanding structural arrangements, youth identities, and on-the-ground research for justice.
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Series Foreword ix
Acknowledgments xv
Introduction 1
To Begin Again (James Baldwin) 2
Theorizing, Documenting, and Contesting the Structural Gears of Educational Inequity 7
A Road Map Through Critical Designs 10
References 12
1. Critical Bifocality and Circuits of Privilege: Expanding Critical Ethnographic Theory and Design 17
Lois Weis and Michelle Fine
Studying Privilege Inside New Global Realities: Working Inside the Press of the Global Knowledge Economy 22
Dispossession Stories: How Public Space Becomes a Private Commodity 32
Critical Bifocality and Circuits of Privilege: Concluding Thoughts 41
References 43
PART I: DOCUMENTING THE RELENTLESS MECHANISMS OF INEQUALITY
2. Gender, Masculinity, and the New Economy 51
Lois Weis
Introduction 51
Changing Economies, Changing Gender 52
Conclusion 66
Author’s Note 67
References 67
3. Class Work: Producing Privilege and Social Mobility in Elite U.S. Secondary Schools 71
Lois Weis and Kristin Cipollone
Note for Edited Volume 71
Introduction 72
Course Selection 79
Conclusion 88
Acknowledgments 90
References 90
4. In the Guise of STEM Education Reform: Opportunity Structures and Outcomes in Inclusive STEM-Focused High Schools 93
Lois Weis, Margaret Eisenhart, Kristin Cipollone, Amy E. Stich, Andrea B. Nikischer, Jarrod Hanson, Sarah Ohle Leibrandt, Carrie D. Allen, and Rachel Dominguez
STEM Education Reform 95
High School Opportunity Structure 96
Sites, Data Collection, and Analysis 99
The Effort to Expand STEM Opportunities in Denver 107
Conclusion 120
Notes 124
References 124
PART II: DOCUMENTING AND REIMAGINING EDUCATIONAL INEQUITIES THROUGH CRITICAL PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH
5. Participation, Power, and Solidarities Behind Bars: A 25-Year Reflection on Critical Participatory Action Research on College in Prison 131
Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, and Cheryl Wilkins
A Short Biography of Community-Based Research 132
Critical Participatory Action Research: Epistemic Roots 134
Changing Minds: A Study of the Impact of College in Prison 136
A Collaborative Approach to Design and Methods 141
Organizing and Presenting the Findings 141
Reflections on the Changing Minds Study and Research Justice 146
Conclusions 146
References 147
6. “People Are Demanding Justice”: Pandemics, Protests, and Remote Learning Through the Eyes of Immigrant Youth of Color 149
Michelle Fine, Samuel Finesurrey, Arnaldo Rodriguez, Joel Almonte, Alondra Contreras, Aidan Lam, and the S2 Alumni Research Collective
CPAR as Anti-Racist Public Science 150
Theoretical Frameworks: Learning to Read the World and Produce Knowledge Through a Critical Race Lens 152
Participatory Design and Analysis 155
Why Participation Matters as an Enactment of Anti-Racist Science 157
Results 162
Building Critical Racial Consciousness Through Pedagogy and Participatory Inquiry 174
Refusing a Return to Normality: Contributing Toward an Anti-Racist Developmental Science 175
The S2 Alumni Research Collective Members 176
Declaration of Conflicting Interests 176
References 177
7. Theorizing Hyphenated Selves: Researching Youth Development In and Across Contentious Political Contexts 179
Michelle Fine and Selcuk R. Sirin
September 11 and the War on Terror Through the Eyes of Muslim Youth in the United States 180
Literatures at the Hyphen 185
Methods for Studying Hyphenated Selves 187
Confessions at the Methodological Hyphen 197
Documenting a History of the Present for Youth Growing Up in Contentious Political Contexts 198
References 199
8. Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical Misrecognition 203
Michelle Fine, María Elena Torre, David M. Frost, and Allison L. Cabana
Precarity and Misrecognition: A Politics Rooted in Redistribution and Recognition 205
Epistemological and Methodological Muddles 211
Cumulative Misrecognition Incites Dispossession 214
Disproportionality Along Key Vectors of Structural Precarity: Housing Insecurity, Bullying/Harassment, and Police Aggression 216
From Discrimination to Activism 218
But What About Health? The Curious Relationship of Discrimination, Activism, and Health Outcomes 221
Intimate Activisms 223
Reflections 227
Funding 228
Acknowledgments 228
References 229
Reflections 233
Endnotes 237
Index 243
Permissions 253
About the Authors 255