The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education

The Handbook of Critical Theoretical Research Methods in Education approaches theory as a method for doing research, rather than as a background framework.

Educational research often reduces theory to a framework used only to analyze empirically collected data. In this view theories are not considered methods, and studies that apply them as such are not given credence. This misunderstanding is primarily due to an empiricist stance of educational research, one that lacks understanding of how theories operate methodologically and presumes positivism is the only valid form of research. This limited perspective has serious consequences on essential academic activities: publication, tenure and promotion, grants, and academic awards. Expanding what constitutes methods in critical theoretical educational research, this edited book details 21 educationally just theories and demonstrates how theories are applied as method to various subfields in education. From critical race hermeneutics to Bakhtin’s dialogism, each chapter explicates the ideological roots of said theory while teaching us how to apply the theory as method.

This edited book is the first of its kind in educational research. To date, no other book details educationally just theories and clearly explicates how those theories can be applied as methods. With contributions from scholars in the fields of education and qualitative research worldwide, the book will appeal to researchers and graduate students.

Author Biographies
Acknowledgments
Preface : "Researching Under the Mortal Realities of Pandemic Life"
Introduction

Chapter 1 : Critical Race Hermeneutics : A Theoretical Method for Researching the Unconscious of White Supremacy in Education
Chapter 2 : The Postdigital Challenge of Critical Educational Research
Chapter 3 : Aspiring to a Sociogenic Phenomenology : A Theoretical Method in Emancipatory Research
Chapter 4 : A Fused Theory of Biopower and Political Vulnerability as a Theoretical Method to Investigate ‘Difficult Knowledge’
Chapter 5 : Uncovering Internalized Whiteness through Critical Race Counterstories : Navigating our Experiences in the State of Texas
Chapter 6 : Phenomenology of Racial Embodiment : Method and the Study of White Humanity in Education
Chapter 7 : Visually Mapping Totality : Fredric Jameson’s Greimasian Square
Chapter 8 : Cultivating Culturally Situated Theorizing in Educational Research : Challenging Imperialistic Curriculum and Training
Chapter 9 : Synthesizing Theoretical, Qualitative, and Quantitative Research : Metasynthesis as a Methodology for Education
Chapter 10 : Agential Realism : Applying Barad’s Ontology to Reconceptualize Teaching and Learning Mathematics for Social Justice
Chapter 11 : Toward a Transgressive Decolonial Hermeneutics in Activist Education Research
Chapter 12 : Thinking with Habitus in the Study of Learner Identities
Chapter 13 : Theorizing with Assemblage : Context and Text in Youth Studies
Chapter 14 : Using Critical Race Spatial Method to Understand Disparities in Controlled Choice Plans
Chapter 15 : Critical Chronotopic Analysis for Disrupting Whitewashedness in TESOL Teacher Education
Chapter 16 : Postformal Method for Critical Education Research
Chapter 17 : Black Lives Mattering In and Out of Schools : Anti-Black Racism, Racial Violence, and a Hope for Black Imagination in Educational Research
Chapter 18 : Beyond the Individual : Deploying the Sociological Imagination as a Research Method in the Neoliberal University
Chapter 19 : Unapologetic Black Inquiry : Centering Blackness in Education Research
Chapter 20 : Paying Emotional Tolls : Politics, Poststructural Narrative Theory, and Research on Race and Racism Subjects for Emotional Well-Being
Chapter 21 : Meditations on Experience : The Politics and Ethics of "Not-knowing" in Educational Research

Index