Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education

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.

Table of Contents:
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 Section Introduction Keon M. McGuire Chapter 5 Illuminating Systemic Inequality in Educations: Using Bourdieu in Critical Qualitative Data Analysis Tangela Blakely Reavis Chapter 6 "Wanna Be Startnin’ Somethin:" Answering the Methodological "Call" To Position Complex Blackness in Conversation with Hermeneutic Phenomenology Steve D. Mobley, Jr. Chapter 7 Thinking with Queer of Color Critique: A Multidimensional Approach to Analyzing and Interpreting Data Reginald A. Blockett Chapter 8 Globalization, Higher Education, and Crisis: A Model for Applying Critical Geography toward Data Analysis Chelsea A. Blackburn Cohen Chapter 9 Context and Materiality: Inclusive Appropriations of New Materialism for Qualitative Analysis Barbara Dennis Section III Critical Theories and Data Analysis in Institutions and Policies Section Introduction Christina W. Yao Chapter 10 A Culture of Values: Rethinking School Quality and Culture through Fanonian Critical Theory Jacqueline M. Forbes Chapter 11 Discourse, Representation, and "Othering": Postcolonial Analysis of Donald Trump’s Education Reform Mercy Agyepong Chapter 12 Analyzing Policy Critically: Using Critical Race Theory to Analyze Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Thandi Sulè, and Dina C. Maramba Chapter 13 Habermas and Data Analysis in For-Profit Higher Education Institutions Ashley Gaskew Chapter 14 Sistahs’ are Doin’ it for themselves: Using Social Media to (Re)Center Black Women’s Voices in Educational Research Jamila Lee-Johnson and Lora Henderson Afterword Jamila Lee-Johnson, Ashley Gaskew, and Rachelle Winkle-Wagner Contributor Bios

About the Author :
Rachelle Winkle-Wagner is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. Jamila Lee-Johnson is a doctoral student in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA. Ashley N. Gaskew is a doctoral candidate in the Educational Leadership and Policy Analysis program and the Curriculum and Instruction program at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA.

Review :
"In addition to offering ways for scholars to build on existing methodologies, contributors to this volume also offer new paradigms while inviting all scholars to consider their tools…. I am encouraged by education researchers desire to transcend contrived borders and employ the methods, forms of methods, analysis, and strategic reconstruction of these forms in order to ask an entirely new set of questions." —from the Foreword by Maisha T. Winn, Chancellor's Leadership Professor, and Co-Director of Transformative Justice in Education (TJE) at the University of California- Davis, USA This book provides critical scholars interested in paying attention to the larger social structural issues and oppression with tangible "how to’s" for critical qualitative data analysis and, in this way, encourage researchers to work toward social change. Too often data analysis processes are reductive and void of theory and, importantly, the authors fill a gap in the existing literature. This thoughtful book is useful for introductory qualitative researchers and senior scholars alike. — Penny A. Pasque, Professor and Department Head, Educational Leadership, Policy, and Human Development, North Carolina State University, USA