by Penny A. Pasque (Editor), e alexander (Editor)
Advancing Culturally Responsive Research and Researchers: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods encourages
readers to design and engage in methodologies and methods that place
cultural relevancy at the center of inquiry. In doing so, it highlights
the need to uplift voices and needs of people who have been historically
marginalized in the environments that we both inhabit and engage in as
part of knowledge construction.
The scholars whose
work is featured in this volume take up research from different
paradigmatic, ontological, epistemological, axiological, and
methodological approaches – yet, with adherence to centering cultural
responsiveness in all research decisions. Each chapter seeks to extend
understandings of social inequities, methodologies, and/or methods – and
to contribute to meaningful and evolving social change through
innovative and cutting-edge research strategies. While doing this work,
the authors illustrate and highlight the importance of researcher
positions and reflexivity in supporting the expansion of culturally
responsive approaches; they also do so while considering global
sociopolitical conditions of this moment in time. The contributions to
this volume were initially presented at the first biennial Advanced
Methods Institute in 2021. The Institute was hosted by QualLab in The
Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology and
shared this volume’s thematic focus.
As a handbook,
the volume can help faculty and advanced researchers with interest in
doing culturally responsive projects to better understand frameworks,
approaches, and considerations for doing so. It includes activities to
support readers in developing said understandings.
