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History Column
Educational Researchers
Meet in London
Journey
Thoughts III,Val’s Favorite NYC Food
Reexivity and Ethical
Issues
Being There
Book Award
Dissertation Award
Call for Nominations
Egon G. Guba Invited Speaker
Yvonna S. Lincoln(Texas A & M University)
2008 New York
Turning Points and Advances in
Qualitative Research Methods
during our 21 years as a SIG
What is Good and Right but
not Necessarily True?
“Not everything we pursue has to
be determined to be true, it may
be determined to be good or right
but not necessarily true”. –Elliot
Eisner (AERA 2007 Chicago, com-
ments following the presentation
of the rst ever QRSIG LifeTimeAchievement Award at the 2007
AERA conference in Chicago).
For more of Eisner’s commentary,
visit the link below to listen to the
podcast: http://hasebroo.blog.usf.
edu/images/eisner.mp3
Eisner is referring to our role as
researchers, (and I’ll get to that) of
course, but I had to start my pursuitof the determining somewhere.
And so I set out to determine what
is good and right but not necessar-
ily true in Shelley’s World.
And these are some of the things
that came to mind, “Mommy, isn’t
this the best outt you’ve ever
seen?” says my 7 year daughter,
Echo, as she stands before me in
her spangled red stretch pants,
purple socks, tutu, green knit shawland tiara…is this true? IS IT? I ask
you. No, but it looks like the best
outt she’s ever seen and that is
good and right in Shelley’s world.
Mommy, can I be just like super
man when I grow up? Says my 5
Echo in New York - 2005 continued p. 4
By Shelley Stewart
University of South Florida
SIG Newsletter Editor
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Some Historical Notes on
our SIG
By Valerie J. Janesick
University of South Florida
SIG Historian and Webmaster
As we look back over
nearly 21 years of our existence
as a SIG, we have achieved
some remarkable milestones.
Over time we have established
the Egon G. Guba Invited Ad-
dress. Along with this we haveestablished a relationship with
the journal Qualitative Inquiry
which allows for the speaker to
send the paper to Qualitative
Inquiry for review and publica-
tion. Thus far all but two papers
have been published from our
Invited Address Series In ad-
dition we established a rela-
tionship with the International
Journal of Qualitative Studies inEducation, QSE, which allows
the Outstanding Dissertation
Award winner for our SIG to
send the paper version of the
dissertation to QSE for review
and publication. Furthermore,
we have an Outstanding Book
Award Committee working at
the moment to possibly award
the rst Book Award in NewYork City in April 2008. We
continue to grow in membership
and member participation. And
speaking of member participa-
tion please feel free to send your
ideas and comments or articles
for the newsletter to our News-
letter Editor, Shelley Stewart. Ournewsletter is using every possible
technological update. Please visit
our stock of newsletters on our
website. Our Website is lled with
valuable information and is often
used as a model for other SIGS.
Soon you will see a podcast of a
portion of Elliot Eisner’s remarks
upon receiving the SIG’s rst Life-
time Achievement Award.
We are not sure what lies ahead
for the next 20 years. However,
we will continue to work to build
our relationships with key jour-
nals, on line journals as well in
our eld and continue to build our
membership. In terms of an unof-
cial membership drive, can we
all agree to recruit jut one mem-
ber each for our SIG? Last year
we had an ofcial drive and it ishelping us tremendously. You may
already realize that we are allotted
program slots per head count so
a membership drive is most help-
ful. So to conclude, please come
to New York City in April, 2008,
to hear our Egon G. Guba Invited
Address to be delivered by Yvonna
S. Lincoln. Last year Yvonna was
unable to do the 20th Anniversary
Address due to family matters. She
has graciously agreed to deliver her
address in New York City on the
topic, “Turning Points and Advanc-
es in Qualitative Research methods
during our 21 Years as a SIG”.
Yvonna S. Lincoln is Professor of
Higher Education at Texas A& M
University. Her numerous texts on
Qualitative Methods and the appli-
cation of these methods has earned
distinction among her peers, col-
leagues, and internationally. (See
the summer 2006 QRSIG newslet-
ter for more details on her work.)Her vision and clarity, her authen-
ticity and knowledge combine to
make her one of the key spokes-
persons in our eld. Please stop by
our business meeting in New York,
to hear this remarkable scholar so
near and dear to our SIG.
“In terms of an unofcialmembership drive, can we
all agree to recruit just one
member each for our SIG?”
Grand Central Station, Subway Terminal, New York
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year old son, Reign, to me as he
sports his superman jammies,
cape and all…is this possible?
I don’t know but IT IS noble
and worthy of pursuit. Mommy,
do angels go to kindergarten?
Is this true? Why not, I say! It
sounds good and right.
Is it true that my qualitative re-
search will save the world? No.But it does make a difference
and I know it does because I ask
participants and they tell me it
enhances their learning and so I
pursue it because it is good and
right. What is good and right in
your world?
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Journey
I looked within my burning soul
and saw a self so very bold
a self I could understand.I saw love and hate minus the
thin line that separates
those two demons.
I saw my thoughts trying
to make me understand
what it is about a man
that makes him love and hate
with the same degree of passion.
© 2007 John J. Brown, Jr.
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Val’s Favorite NYC Restaurants
By Valerie J. Janesick
University of South Florida
SIG Historian and Webmaster
Won’t break the budget and which will remind you that New Yorkers
know how to eat!
Le Pain Quotidien at the corner of 58th and Seventh Ave. French are, French bread, the best soups,
salads and sandwiches in the vicinity.
Café La Bonne Soupe 48 West 55th St. between 5th and Madison Fixed price three course for next to nothing and
various other specialties like Fondue, cheese boards,
roast chicken ala Provence.
Yolato (for frozen yogurt) Macdougal near Bleeker Every possible avor and nothing like it anywhere!
For Afternoon TeaTakashimaya Department Store, Tea Shoppe on 5th Ave.
For Unbelievable Hot Chocolate La Maison du Chocolat, 30 Rockerfeller Plaza near 6th Ave.
In the Times Warner Building at Columbus Cir.
Bar Masa Legendary 5 star chef, best presentation and tastes with
three course fxed price lunch.
Café Grey Lunch specials are worth the wait.
Bouchon Bakery TAKE OUT Side Center Delightful NY version of the California Icon.
The entire lower level of the Times Warner is Whole Foods!
Thoughts III
Look within yourself
and see
Your wants
Your abilitiesYour likes and
Your dislikes.
You feel Your emotions
and highest peaks of passion.
Then look at Me.
I have My own wants
My abilities
My likes and
My dislikes.
I feel My emotions
and highest peaks of passion.
I am as important to Me
as You are to You.
Realize this
and
Don’t tread on Me.
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It is rather customary to promis-
cuously interconnect the popu-
lar methodological conception
of reexivity with multi-level
metatheoretical analyses, com-
plicated representational tactics
and strategies, self-conscious
knowledge-production processes
and, in general, epistemologi-cal questions and answers. But
what does the reexive critique
of the educational researcher (or
the knowing subject) exactly
involve? What does it really
mean for our daily educational
research practices? And, what
are its ultimate ethical implica-
tions for the overall discourse
of qualitative methodology and
education?
Focusing on a radical meta-
methodological strand of inqui-
ry, it is practically demonstrable
that the ethical dimension of
reexivity is rarely stressed, or
even recognized and acknowl-
edged, in an explicit manner.
Although reexivity is a well-
established and well-respected
concept in the qualitativeresearch tradition, it has not
previously been seen as an ethi-
cal notion. Indeed, reexivity is
not usually seen as connected
with ethics or “microethics”
(Komesaroff) at all. Further -
more, Western reexive think -
ing about knowledge, culture and
education often tends to (somehow)
reproduce the “one epistemological
size ts all” standpoint of Eurocen-
trism, to arrogantly exclude alter -
native post-colonial theorizations
and to ignore the irreducibility of
the “ethical dimension”.
The irreducibility of ethics ren-ders epistemological reexivity as
inadequate or incomplete. Hence,
reexivity, as a rather community
level concern, should no more
regarded as a mere conceptual tool
for a pragmatic, self-referential un-
derstanding of educational theory
and research. Following Marcel
Mauss, it should be also regarded
as a potentially helpful (anti-indi-
vidualistic) guide for a new ethic
of academic life as well as a way
of thinking and living (Gouldner)
that will actually lead to ethical
research practice. Epistemologi-
cal and ethical aspects of reexiv-
ity are thus of equal importance.
These aspects should complement
and reinforce each other, mutually
contributing to “good science” and
“good life”.The innovative “reinvention” of the
ethical dimension, within contem-
porary educational research, argu-
ably entails the substantial incorpo-
ration of the “weak” performative
circular reasoning as well as a new
reexive ethos (and aesthetic) of
scientic modesty. To put it simply,
the celebration of the (inescapable)
vulnerability of our arguments is
actually paying a compliment to
them! The issue here is indeed the
fruitful pluralist maximization of
both ethical and cognitive possibili-
ties. In this respect, the “it could be
otherwise” clause of liberal intel-lectual inquiry remains central to
our inter-disciplinary world- and
self-accounts.
Ultimately, reexivity as an “ethi-
co-epistemological” project, or as
individual and collective ethical
reection and action, is not easily
compatible neither with the old, in-
terest-free pursuit of truth nor with
the traditional, universalistic idealof epistemological perfectionism.
But it is indeed compatible with the
anti-hegemonic ethical principle of
epistemological weakness, as well
as with a genuine stance of “intel-
lectual humility and tolerance”
(Rosenau). In this line, ethical
reexivity does not entail a “stron-
ger objectivity” (Bourdieu, Hard-
ing) but rather a modest notion of
reexive objectivity disassociatedfrom Methodological Dualism.
Reexivity and Ethical Issues
By Nicos Katrivesis
University of Macedonia, Thessalonica,Greece
Reader in Sociology
By Charalambos Tsekeris
Greek Journal Intellectum Editorial Board
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Qualitative Research SIG
Book Award
The QR-SIG announces a new
award, to be given annually for
the best book in the eld of quali-
tative research from the previous
year. Books may be nominated
by any member in good standing
of the SIG. Nominated authorsthemselves must be members in
good standing of the SIG. Nomi-
nations will be accepted through
January 1, 2007, for books
published in 2006. To nominate
a book, forward a letter describ-
ing how the book contributes to
the eld of qualitative research,
along with complete publication
information, to Judith Gouwens,chair of the book award com-
mittee (Roosevelt University
College of Education, 430 S.
Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL
60605). Robert Donmoyer and
Lisa Mazzei are members of the
book award committee.
Being There
By Andy Carter
Roosevelt University
Professor
Aristotle dened phronesis
As practical knowledge.
Neither technical nor abstract,
It emerges in the process ofbecoming,
Where learning how to do
Comes through being there
Teaching is a practical art.
Assisting others in their be-
coming,
It assumes mutual benet
Through listening and con-
versations,
Where learning how to learnComes through being there
Recognizing the value of
teachers
Requires an appreciation of
what they do.
Understanding a teacher’s
story
Troubles the boundaries be-
tween science and art,
Where learning how to tell it
Comes through being there.
The Newsletter Editor offers her
sincerest apologies to Dr. Carter for
a misprint of his poem in the Spring
2007 QRSIG Newsletter - the poem is
printed in its entirety here.
Thoughts IIWalking through the halls of life
I nd it hard to comprehend
the endlessness of the toils and
strife
that lies within each room that
I must pass on my short journey.
I wonder if death is as hard to
die
as life is as hard to live?
© 2007 John J. Brown, Jr.
“New York City sits bold
and beautiful, brash and
bounteous, a Big Apple,
representing the best the
country and people have
to offer. Never has there
been a city like it, nor will
there be again…It’s a city
of achievers, often beset by
adversity, but never bested
by circumstances”
-- John Clementis
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The Qualitative Research SIG
invites nominations of disser-
tations that make outstanding
contributions to methodology of
qualitative educational research.
The winner of the qualitative
award will also be recognized
by the American Educational
Research Association.
Dissertations completed during
the 2006-2007 academic year,
prior to December 7, 2007 will
be eligible for consideration.
Nominations must be received
by Friday, December 7, 2007.
Late nominations or incom-
plete nominations will not be
considered. Award nalists will
be contacted the third week of
January 2008. The nalists maythen be asked to supply 3 copies
of the dissertation to distribute to
the committee for further consid-
eration. Send nomination pack-
ages to:
Dr. Karen Tonso
Wayne State University
#341 Education,
5425 Gullen Mall
Detroit, Michigan 48202
To nominate a dissertation, the nomination packet must include 3 sets of
the following ve (5) items:
1. One letter of faculty endorsement from a member of the student’s dis-
sertation committee who is an AERA member, attesting that the disserta-
tion was completed by the student during the time period specied and that
the faculty member nominating or endorsing the nomination served on the
dissertation committee. Please also include the oral defense date. This let-
ter should include a brief clarication of the purposes, scope and quality of
the student’s dissertation research, an explanation of how the dissertation
contributes to the eld of qualitative methodology (in terms of theory and practice) and a discussion about why it is deserving of this methodological
award.
2. A title page for the dissertation (including university/college, name of
the professor chairing the dissertation committee and a complete list of com-
mittee members). In addition, please add to the title page complete contact
information of either the student or the nominator that can be used for all
correspondence regarding the award.
3. The Table of Contents from the dissertation.
4. A summary of the dissertation, prepared by the student, that gives an
overview of the research, a description of individual chapters, and a state-
ment that provides a context for how the representative chapter that is being
sent ts within the overall dissertation. (double-spaced, 12 pt. type, 10 pages
max.)
5. One representative chapter from the dissertation that best exemplies
the contribution of the dissertation to theorizing qualitative methodology.
Criteria for judging the merits of the dissertations include the signi-
cance and timeliness of the methodological issue(s) addressed, the
integrity and quality of the discussion of the methods used for an em-
pirical study, and the contribution of the dissertation to the advance-
ment of knowledge about an area of or issue in qualitative research
methodology. Dissertation nominations must add to the theoretical
and practical knowledge about contemporary methodological issues
to be considered for the award. For example, a recent winner exam-
ined ctional writing genres and reexive analyses of the researcher’s
relationships with those studied. Dissertations that use qualitative
methods, but that do not contribute signicantly to the theorization of
methodology and substantially address contemporary issues in meth-
odology are not eligible for the award.
2008 Qualitative Research
SIG Outstanding
Dissertation Award
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OfcersSIG Chair
Leslie Rebecca Bloom,
Iowa State University
Program Co-Chairs
Mirka Koro- Ljungberg,
University of Florida
Deborah Ceglowski,University of North
Carolina-Charlotte
Newsletter Editor
Shelley Stewart,
University of South Florida
Historian and Website
Coordinator
Valerie J. Janesick,
University of South Florida
Call for Nominations for Ofcers for the QRSIGRecently AERA approved SIG ofcer terms for three years. Start-
ing this year, our SIG will begin 3 year terms for all ofces as they
come up.
Call for nominations for the Chair of the QRSIG, 2008-2011:
Requirements:
1. Must be a member in good standing of the QRSIG
2. Must be a member in good standing of AERA
3. Must have served the SIG in some capacity in the past such
as another ofcer role, or membership on a committee4. Must be publishing in the area of Qualitative research methods
5. Must be at an institution that will support the work of AERA
and our QRSIG
6. Must attend and conduct business meeting for the next three
years at AERA annual meeting
Call for Nominations of Program co-chair for the QRSIG, 2008-
2011:
Requirements:
1. Must be a member in good standing of AERA and the QRSIG
2. Must be willing to shape program and with the existing
co-chair for two years of the term, with the idea of leading the
program denition during the third year of the term.
3. Should attend the business meetings for the next three years.
Send all nominations in the form of a paragraph to the current
QRSIG chair, Leslie Bloom at:
SIG CHAIR Ofcer duties can be found at:http://www.aera.net/Default.aspx?menu_id=208&id=772
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