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. Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 6 Foreword: Reflections on Research that is Humanizing......Page 9 Preface......Page 13 Acknowledgements......Page 17 SECTION I The Need for Partnering Critical Theory and Data Analysis in Education......Page 20 1 The Missing Link in Data Analysis: An Introduction to the Use of Critical Theory to Guide Data Analysis......Page 22 2 The Missing Infinite: A History and Critique of Mainstream and Counter-Mainstream Methodologies......Page 33 3 Trouble the Translating: Border Thinking, Indigenous Knowledges, and Undoing Method......Page 65 4 De-Norming the Syllabus: An Analysis Situated in Critical and Caring Pedagogies......Page 80 SECTION II Critical Theory and Analysis with Marginalized Populations......Page 94 Introduction......Page 95 5 Illuminating Systemic Inequality in Education: Using Bourdieu in Critical Qualitative Data Analysis......Page 100 6 Answering the Methodological "Call" to Position Complex Blackness in Conversation With Hermeneutic Phenomenology......Page 111 7 Thinking with Queer of Color Critique: A Multidimensional Approach to Analyzing and Interpreting Data......Page 128 8 Globalization, Higher Education, and Crisis: A Model for Applying Critical Geography toward Data Analysis......Page 142 9 Context and Materiality: Inclusive Appropriations of New Materialism for Qualitative Analysis......Page 157 SECTION III Critical Theories and Data Analysis in Institutions and Policies......Page 176 Introduction......Page 177 10 A Culture of Values: Rethinking School Quality and Culture through Fanonian Critical Theory......Page 182 11 Discourse, Representation, and "Othering": Postcolonial Analysis of Donald Trump's Education Reform......Page 196 12 Analyzing Policy Critically: Using Critical Race Theory to Analyze College Admissions Policy Discourse......Page 212 13 Habermas and Data Analysis in For-Profit Higher Education Institutions......Page 223 14 Using Social Media to (Re)Center Black Women's Voices in Educational Research......Page 241 Afterword......Page 256 List of Contributors......Page 259 Index......Page 263 "Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis offers a path-breaking explanation of how critical theories can be used within the analysis of qualitative data to inform research process, 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"-- Provided by publisher