ABSTRACT

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.

section I|73 pages

The Need for Partnering Critical Theory and Data Analysis in Education

chapter 1|11 pages

The Missing Link in Data Analysis

An Introduction to the Use of Critical Theory to Guide Data Analysis

chapter 2|32 pages

The Missing Infinite

A History and Critique of Mainstream and Counter-Mainstream Methodologies

chapter 3|15 pages

Trouble the Translating

Border Thinking, Indigenous Knowledges, and Undoing Method

chapter 4|13 pages

De-Norming the Syllabus

An Analysis Situation in Critical and Caring Pedagogies

section II|82 pages

Critical Theory and Analysis with Marginalized Populations

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

chapter 5|11 pages

Illuminating Systemic Inequality in Education

Using Bourdieu in Critical Qualitative Data Analysis

chapter 7|14 pages

Thinking with Queer of Color Critique

A Multidimensional Approach to Analyzing and Interpreting Data

chapter 8|15 pages

Globalization, Higher Education, and Crisis

A Model for Applying Critical Geography toward Data Analysis

chapter 9|19 pages

Context and Materiality

Inclusive Appropriations of New Materialism for Qualitative Analysis

section III|79 pages

Critical Theories and Data Analysis in Institutions and Policies

chapter |4 pages

Introduction

chapter 10|14 pages

A Culture of Values

Rethinking School Quality and Culture through Fanonian Critical Theory

chapter 11|16 pages

Discourse, Representation, and "Othering"

Postcolonial Analysis of Donald Trump's Education Reform

chapter 12|11 pages

Analyzing Policy Critically

Using Critical Race Theory to Analyze College Admissions Policy Discourse