The Song (Does Not) Remain the Same: Re-Envisioning Portraiture Methodology in Educational Research

Brooks, Spirit

doi:10.46743/2160-3715/2017.2332

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“…In line with the socially just potentiality of narrative inquiry (Montero & Washington, 2021), recent scholarship has taken up portraiture as an inquiry method that can blend with feminist or decolonizing methods to align with the goals of socially just research (S. Brooks, 2017; Player, 2021). As such, I blended narrative portraiture design (Lawrence-Lightfoot & Davis, 1997) with feminist methods.…”

Section: Methods: Illuminating Women and Surfacing Their Praxismentioning

confidence: 99%

Rural Women, Creative Writing, and Resistance

McElroy

2023

Journal of Literacy Research

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Blending narrative portraiture and feminist methods, this study explored the lives of two rural women who are creative writers. The study asked (1) What are their critical purposes? and (2) How did gender and place intersect in their writing lives? The findings were that the women used creative writing to engage in praxis by creating and disseminating knowledge. Their writing critically interrogated and redefined conceptions of womanhood. Additional critical purposes were unique to women's intersectional identities and lived experiences. They ranged from interrogating societal perspectives of gender, sexuality, and race to interrogating rurality and sexual violence. The aesthetic texts they created articulated and advocated for intersubjective truths. Shifting the focus of critical literacy from pedagogy and reading to writing beyond educational spaces, the women drew upon critical literacy not as a means of being taught how to understand the power of texts, but to wield the power of texts themselves.

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Rural Women, Creative Writing, and Resistance

McElroy

2023

Journal of Literacy Research

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“…Though Sandy rightly noted, "Everything we do and everything you referenced … is already a matter of public record," reiterating her courage and conviction, we also view the absence of pseudonyms as indicative of the care and attention we devoted to these portraits of protest. As a means of shaping transcript data into meaningful and accessible narratives (Anderson, 2011), particularly so as to "avoid deficit tropes" (Brooks, 2017(Brooks, , p. 2240, portraiture is an analytical strategy closely aligned with our counternarrative aims. Indeed, Catone (2017) argues, "portraiture's focus on an expansive search for goodness, as opposed to the diagnostic identification of pathology, takes on significant importance in an education reform context" (p. 19).…”

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Portraits of Protest in Florida: How Opt-Out Makes the Personal Political

Currin

Schroeder

McCardle

2021

Teachers College Record: The Voice of Scholarship in Education

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Background/Context Opting out of high-stakes standardized tests, a phenomenon so widespread in the United States as to be regarded as a movement, is nevertheless a misunderstood and often maligned force in educational politics. Purpose This article offers a counternarrative of opt-out activism—a more thorough and vivid account of what we view as an unfairly maligned movement with tremendous potential for improving and preserving our nation's schools. Participants In-depth portraits introduce three members of the Opt Out Florida Network: Cindy Hamilton, an unabashed leader whose children have graduated; Sandy Stenoff, her partner in protest whose children remain in the system; and Susan Bowles, who grapples with conflicting roles of pedagogue and protester. Research Design As a critical ethnography, this study uses a qualitative approach to expose and challenge the unjust treatment of the opt-out movement, guided by the following research questions: 1) How do opt-out activists understand and explain their journeys to activism? 2) What experiences, concerns, and commitments guide them in their daily fight against high-stakes standardized testing? Data Collection and Analysis Using transcript data from focus group and 1-on-1 follow-up phone interviews, the research team composed and analyzed narrative portraits, which offer models of resistance to neoliberal education reform. Conclusions Contrary to their portrayal as passive, anti-test, anti-accountability parents solely focused on their own children, the opt-out movement is an active community of highly informed individuals dedicated to effecting positive change in education. The nuance of narrative captures the messy realities of activism, illustrating how parents and teachers must work together, guided by a view of citizenship as shared fate, to fight for more equitable and educative schools.

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“…Portraiture subverts the deficit-oriented research tradition, instead focusing on "what is good and healthy" (Lawrence-Lightfoot & Davis, 1997, p. 10). Due to this, it can appeal to researchers studying marginalized groups, which have been historically studied from a pathology perspective (Brooks, 2017;Lynn & Jennings, 2009;Yazzie-Mintz, 2007). Of the ten studies examined in this review, five used one or more theoretical frameworks that are concerned with social change, such as critical theory and its branch, critical pedagogy, ethnic studies, critical race theory, and decolonizing pedagogy.…”

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Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2023

2023

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The aim of the study was to explore social measurements and COVID-19 -related behavioral choices from a network structure perspective. We tested network models by comparing network structures in 46 countries by cultural dimensions (Hofstede et al., 2010). The pre-registered hypothesis was that the network structure of variables predicting COVID-19-related behavioral choices will be robust across countries, regardless of the mean differences of these variables between countries characterized by high vs low culture dimension indices. Behavioural choices toward COVID-19 situation were: physical hygiene, policy support, and physical contact. In network analysis we used several social/psychological constructs: social belonging, trait optimism, collective narcissism, moral identity, self-esteem, national identification, trait self-control, morality as cooperation, conspiracy beliefs, political ideology, and narcissism. We analysed twelve conditions based on dichotomized culture dimensions (high vs. low Power distance, Individualism, Masculinity, Uncertainty avoidance, Long-term orientation, and Indulgence) across demographics (e.g., age, gender). We conducted network structure analysis using high-dimensional undirected graph estimation with glasso procedure splitting the data by culture dimensions in total with N = 40 795 individuals. The study findings indicated that the network models were fairly consistent across cultures with different scores on each of Hofstede's six cultural dimensions. This similarity reflects the previous studies in terms of the stability of associations between variables regardless of sex, age, and political beliefs.

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The Song (Does Not) Remain the Same: Re-Envisioning Portraiture Methodology in Educational Research

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Rural Women, Creative Writing, and Resistance

Rural Women, Creative Writing, and Resistance

Portraits of Protest in Florida: How Opt-Out Makes the Personal Political

Human, Technologies and Quality of Education, 2023

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