Chapter 5. Story Rug: Weaving Stories into Research

Tachine, Amanda R.

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“…. [because] we are always in relation to and with various communities—past, present, and future; land-based, human, and more than human—as we envision the worlds we need and want” (Tachine & Nicolazzo, 2022, p. 9). This envisioning, we suggest, must include a careful, thoughtful, and continual engagement with the qualitative methodological literature.…”

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Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing

Furlong

Lester

2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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There is consensus around the value of conducting literature reviews across disciplines; however, little attention has been given to the potential(s) of engaging in a qualitative methodological literature review (QMLR). This article examines the possibilities of engaging in a QMLR by showing how it can inform qualitative research practice. After overviewing the history of literature reviews, we offer a series of questions that can inform and be integrated into a QMLR. We then demonstrate how such reviews can serve as an opportunity for qualitative inquirers to critically engage with the methodological literature with the intent of better understanding, enacting, and generating new methodological practices.

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Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing

Furlong

Lester

2022

Qualitative Inquiry

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“…p. 430). Tachine regards research as a weaving process used as “metaphors for imagination and ancient wisdom that provides space to visualize and connect difficult thought processes” (Tachine, 2018, p. 66). Tremblay-Dion (2017) mentions that rugs are a woven culture, a heritage of history, culture, and time.…”

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The Rug Methodology in Qualitative Studies

Bodman,

Garista

2023

International Journal of Qualitative Methods

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This article introduces the Rug Methodology to enhance participation in the qualitative research process. The idea of using rugs to facilitate narratives and expression, and to build reciprocity and activate reflexivity and meaning-making, grew out of a peer-to-peer debate between the authors of this paper on a qualitative research approach for weaving rugs, inventive methods for community action, and drawing as a reflective practice. The article describes the procedure of drawing rugs to encourage people participation. Rugs are everyday objects but they can become a qualitative tool that can be used with in-depth interviews, amplifying the opportunity of collecting participants’ lived experiences, emotions, reflections, and desires. The paper aims to define a framework which connects “to-do activities” with dialogical practices in research and to describe strengths and limitations of drawings rugs in a qualitative research design. Drawings, life events, and stories from the field are described and discussed, showing how everyday objects such as rugs can support expression, participation, reflexivity, and how drawing rugs is suitable for various and vulnerable targets and settings in qualitative studies. Finally, the paper describes the challenges of analysing data from drawings to illustrate lived experiences related to people who stay in rural areas and how they learnt to generate their quality of life.

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“…Another consideration is related to the quality of relationships with communities of interest to researchers and scholarly inquiries (see Tachine & Nicolazzo, 2022). Rather than reify social structures that position researchers as experts who exert power over participants who share their stories (for research consumption), this quality indicator pertains to the more equitable distribution of perspective and position.…”

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“…Simply put, reflexivity in the context of QR, is a systematic, deep, and ongoing effort to understand how "introspection, political consciousness, cultural awareness, and ownership of one's perspective" impact research implementation (Patton, 2015, p. 70). Some scholars argue that reflexivity moves beyond individualism and also helps qualitative researchers reflect how their positionalities influence research within the communities they serve, which may lead to applying more equitable research practices (Tachine & Nicolazzo, 2022). This view aspires toward reflexive struggle, transformation, and solidarity with collective communities, thus addressing challenging issues in special education.…”

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“…With whom research is conducted also can refer to who is included on research teams. When research teams include insiders and outsiders to the communities under study, the team is better able to provide insight into insider and outsider perspectives and engage in active relationship building and collaboration with these communities (see Tachine & Nicolazzo, 2022). Grappling with these questions prior to forming research teams and throughout the research process unlocks opportunities to disrupt norms and commonsense assumptions about what it means to research with and in certain communities (i.e., marginalized, overresearched), how to engage with participants and community members, and what it means to be an individual who is disabled, Black, Indigenous, disabled, and so on.…”

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Reflexive Quality Criteria: Questions and Indicators for Purpose-Driven Special Education Qualitative Research

Banks,

González,

Mueller

et al. 2023

Exceptional Children

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Qualitative research (QR) has gained visibility and acceptance in the field of special education due to early efforts to identify quality indicators focused on technical and methodological aspects of QR. Whereas these indicators focused on credibility and trustworthiness of data, this article articulates additional QR quality indicators to enhance the value and power of researcher reflexivity as a means to expand the capacity of purpose- and equity-driven special education research. First, the need for reflexivity criteria is addressed. Next, reflexivity criteria are operationalized in key questions that engage researchers in self-reflection: (a) Why do QR? (b) By whom, for whom, and with whom is QR being conducted? and (c) Who is affected by the benefits and costs of QR? These questions encourage researchers to grapple with the complexity of experiences, outcomes, and structures associated with special education and ultimately advance more equitable policy and practice.

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Chapter 5. Story Rug: Weaving Stories into Research

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Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing

Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing

The Rug Methodology in Qualitative Studies

Reflexive Quality Criteria: Questions and Indicators for Purpose-Driven Special Education Qualitative Research

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