1st Edition

The Responsible Methodologist Inquiry, Truth-Telling, and Social Justice

By Aaron M. Kuntz Copyright 2015
    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    158 Pages
    by Routledge

    Winner of The University of Alabama 2017 President’s Faculty Research Award

    What does it mean to be a responsible methodologist? Certainly it is more than being a research middle-manager who ensures that the tools used in a thesis or dissertation are of the right gauge. In The Responsible Methodologist, leading education scholar Aaron Kuntz uses the latest movements in social theory to challenge qualitative researchers to reconceptualize their work away from the technocratic toward an intervention, an ethical disruption of the norm, an activist stance toward progressive social change. Inviting creativity and vision, he insists that the responsible methodologist become a force leading the discourse toward social justice. His book-challenges the technocratic role given to qualitative methodologists in university settings;-urges them to become a force for change through Foucault’s parrhesia, risky truth-telling;-includes research projects that have incorporated this vision.

    http://amkuntz.people.ua.edu/

    Chapter 1 Introduction; Chapter 2 Logics of Extraction; Chapter 3 Materialism and Critical Materialism; Chapter 4 Methodological Parrhesia: Truth-Telling; Chapter 5 Methodological Materiality: Toward Productive Social Change;

    Biography

    Aaron M. Kuntz