Critical Theory and Qualitative Data Analysis in Education

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.

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