A Transformative Dialogue of Emancipatory Methodologies

This dialogical presentation is about emancipatory methodologies to explore ways in which qualitative research can be more culturally-nurturing. Following a study of alternative epistemologies research began to look, sound, and feel different and it now holds different purposes and goals. Rather than rendering people of color as pathological and misrepresented emancipatory methodologies can rehumanize qualitative research and dismantle deficit and devalued images of communities of color

Videos and Messy Data Analysis

This video collage expresses how students interacted with data in various ways as a response to the instructor’s request to analyze data. Video ‘stunts’ illustrate how ‘ messy data analysis’ can lead to spontaneous connections and ‘accident zones’ during different interactions with data. Additionally, this video collage has less to do with step-by-step approaches and more with engaging, challenging, interesting, thought-provoking, and sometimes pleasurable or threatening analysis approaches

Dialogic Exchanges and the Negotiation of Differences: Female Graduate Students\u27 Experiences of Obstacles Related to Academic Mentoring

This study, framed by social constructionism, investigated the dialogic exchanges and co-construction of knowledge among female graduate students, who met to discuss the ways in which the differences between mentors and mentees might be negotiated in order to develop and maintain mentoring relationships that benefit both partners. Ten female graduate students, with qualitative research experience, participated in individual interviews and focus groups. Findings indicated our participants were open to the differences expressed, focusing on commonalities, rather than accentuating or suppressing stated differences. This negotiation of difference enabled our participants to co-construct more complex and legitimate understandings of mentoring. Collectively, our participants expressed a need for mentoring that addressed psychosocial, as well as career functions and mentoring relationships that supported the development of both mentor and mentee as scholars and researchers

Answers , Assemblages, and Qualitative Research

While educational researchers predominately study complex, multidimensional problems, research findings and proposed arguments are characterized as definite, simplified and prone to 3 particular types of answers or expected outcomes. We seek to problematize definite and simplified notions of answers and propose answers be seen not as a final step in research but rather as an opening, an assemblage, a jar, or a call to transition into new forms of questions, outlooks, and modes of thought

‘Would you prefer not to?’ Resetting/resistance across literature, culture, and organizations

In this paper we put the concepts of reset, aprosdoketon and minor gesture to work in the context of organizational narratives. In particular we engage with two iconic characters of the genre of organizational fiction, Don Draper in the context of Mad Men TV series and the copyist, who is the main character of Bartleby, the Scrivener by Herman Melville. Through a series of textual and performative writings we explore the possibility of setting and resetting organizational narratives/genre. Moreover, we explore what happens when fictional characters from a TV series and a novel (Bartleby and Don Draper) meet us–three scholars working in an array of different fields (literary, methodology, education and organization studies) and how this meeting and interaction shapes our understandings of work, culture, and organizations

So Now What?: Reflections on Visual Analysis

A picture may be worth 1,000 words, but which words to use to interpret visual images? This paper reflects on struggles and possibilities of visual analysis especially focusing on the complexities of representation. While providing examples from a project on challenges faced by female outrigger canoe paddlers aged 50 and older, the authors will discuss issues of authenticity, representational value, symbolic meanings, and other complexities of representation

Questioning data and data becoming: Rhizomatic data-trail experimentations with bridge/briging

In the current presentation, we pose a series of questions and share provocations on how qualitative researchers interact with data and how data traces research possibilities. We play – follow our ambitious wonderings about data – with researchcreation possibilities to interrogate how data may become in various forms and timespaces. In our work, we depart rhizomatically from the inspiration we had during past experiences of data trails, i.e., a specific mode of thinking and doing for research-creation possibilities. These experiences with experimentation make us question research practices and the discourses around them; they invoke us to ponder a series of ethical-onto-epistemological turns with data. In this presentation, we let the concept of “bridge/bridging” help us with this pondering. Additionally, we share and create provocations about data without any ambition to solve ‘the data question”. Rather, we approach the question about data and their functions as we propose a series of wonderings and data points with the hope of inspiring colleagues to debate about data. The session is, eventually, an offer for an alternative reading of data