1st Edition
Critical Youth Research in Education Methodologies of Praxis and Care
Critical studies of youth play an increasingly important role in educational research. This volume adds to that ongoing conversation by addressing the methodological lessons learned from key scholars in the field. With a focus on “the doing” of critical youth studies in ways that center praxis and relational care in work with youth and their communities, the volume showcases scholars discussing their research and reflecting on the practical strategies they have used to operationalize their conceptions of knowledge in youth-centered research projects. Each chapter addresses the research features, challenges, tensions, and debates of the project; engagement with communities; and relationality, reciprocity, and responsibility to participants. The focus throughout is on qualitative approaches that are humanizing, anti-colonial, and transformative.
Dedication
Foreword, H. Samy Alim
Preface and Acknowledgements
PART I
Designing Critical Youth Research
1 Centering Critical Youth Research Methodologies of Praxis and Care
Arshad I. Ali and Teresa L. McCarty
2 Resisting Racism and Neoliberalism in Critical Language Research and Activism with Racialized Youth
Mary Bucholtz, Dolores Inés Casillas, and Jin Sook Lee
3 Participatory, Multimodal Ethnography with Youth
Kristine Rodriguez Kerr, Katherine Newhouse, and Lalitha Vasudevan
PART II
Engaging and Honoring Communities
4 Community Engagement and Meaningful Trust as Bedrocks of Well-Crafted Research
Sandra K. Vanderbilt and Arshad I. Ali
5 Indigenous Community, Youth, and Educational Research in the Andean World
Elizabeth Sumida Human and Laura A. Valdiviezo
6 Teaching Transformative Research for Indigenous Youth and Communities
Leola Tsinnajinnie and Tiffany S. Lee
PART III
Gathering and Analyzing Data
7 Accounting for the Intersectional Complexity of Disability and Race in Critical Youth Studies/Youth Participatory Action Research Data Collection Methods
Kathleen King Thorius, Taucia González, and Robin Jackson
8 The Interview as Pedagogical Encounter: Nurturing Knowledge and Relationships with Youth
Shirin Vossoughi and Miguel Zavala
9 Finding the "Connective Tissue" in Critical Youth Research: Storywork as Data Analysis
Cynthia Benally, Kēhaulani Vaughn, and Teresa L. McCarty□
Part IV
Reporting and (Re)presentation
10 Reporting Data to Recognize the Complexity and Multiplicity of Youth Lives
Cindy Cruz
11 Reading Over Our Shoulders: Writing About Arab Youth, Families, and Communities in the Post-9/11 U.S.
Sally Wesley Bonet and Thea Renda Abu El-Haj
Part V
(Re)connecting the Circle—Caring, Not Closing
12 Vulnerability in the Act of Research: Methodological Praxis and Strategies of Self-Care
Lionel C. Howard
13 Refusing Closure Through Critical Care
Ariana Mangual Figueroa and Madeline Fox
14 Enacting Relationships of Kinship and Care in Educational and Research Settings
Ananda Marin, Theresa Stewart-Ambo, Nikki McDaid-Morgan, Renee White Eyes, and Megan Bang
About the Contributors
Index
Biography
Arshad I. Ali is Assistant Professor of Educational Research in the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at The George Washington University.
Teresa L. McCarty is the George F. Kneller Chair in Education and Anthropology in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies, and Faculty in American Indian Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles.
