Humanizing Research

The purpose of this graduate seminar is to examine methodological approaches that seek to humanize the qualitative inquiry process for researchers and the communities where they conduct their research. More specifically, this graduate seminar will consider how to enter and exit the field; ethical dilemmas of being "too close to the work;" making methodological choices (with a focus on ethnography, historiography, and social design experiments); and strategies for leveraging and disseminating findings to engage in transformational problem solving in education both in schools and in out-of-school settings. This seminar is ideal for emerging scholars who are interested in conducting research with members of non-dominant communities.