Morning Session 8:30 AM -11:30 AM

1. D. Soyini Madison

Workshop Title: Radical Performance, Neoliberalism, and Human Rights

    What is the Radical in radical performance? How do neoliberal policies affect human rights? How does the "commodification of everything" lead to human atrocities? What is a dramaturgy of public dissent? In the struggle for human rights - whether in the form of collective opposition or individual resistance - radical performance confronts the underpinnings and the consequences of power regimes, hegemonic controls, and economic global restructuring that are responsible for myriad forms of human suffering. This workshop will explore how oppositional performance labors to expose, trouble, and break the covert and overt links between human rights and political economy. It will respond to key controversies and debates surrounding causation of human rights violations: acts by the "unenlightened" or the consequences of dire poverty; local greed or global capitalism; the violence of traditional dogma or the dehumanization of secular and individualist modernity. We will examine how transnational activism and local acts take the form of oppositional or alternative performances in order to build social movements and global networks.

2.Maggie MacLure, Rachel Holmes and Liz Jones

Workshop Title: TBA

3. Greg Dimitriadis & George Kamberelis

Workshop Title: The Critical Use of Focus Groups

    In this workshop, we will explore focus groups as productive sites for developing rich understandings of social phenomena, for engaging in pedagogy and reflection, and for doing political work. These related activities are all central to conducting research in what Denzin and Lincoln have called the eighth moment of qualitative inquiry.

     Basically, focus groups are collective conversations or group interviews. They can be small or large, directed or non-directed. Focus groups have been used for a wide range of purposes over the past century or so. The U.S. military (e.g., Merton), multi-national corporations, Marxist revolutionaries (e.g., Freire), literacy activists (e.g., Kozol), and three waves of radical feminist scholar-activists, among others, have all used focus groups to help advance their concerns and causes. We will discuss these conceptual issues as well as related strategies for conducting rich focus group sessions.

    Our workshop will begin with a discussion of the nature and function of focus groups, along with our concerns about their fate in conservative social and political times. Next, we will present a brief history of focus group research from its beginnings in media effects research during WWII, through its popular use in various social movements, and to its current explosive dispersion across many disciplines and for many purposes. Finally, we will discuss how we have used focus groups strategically in several of our own research projects. This discussion will include topics such as: how to recruit participants; how to choose spaces for hosting collective conversations; how to develop and use leading questions; how to follow up on key themes developed by group members; how and when to manage groups; and how to listen for “subtexts” that emerge from focus group discussions; and how interpret and deal with apparent “breakdowns” in group processes and understandings. These up close and personal examples of focus groups in action should help to illustrate their productive possibilities, their inherent dangers, and the many contingencies involved in focus group research.

4. Maria Mayan

Workshop Title:The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry: Designing, thinking about and executing rigorous qualitative inquiry

     While it is unlikely that qualitative researchers would ever agree on the answer to, "What is qualitative inquiry?" there are some principles, heuristics, and "rules of thumb" that are essentials to moving and thinking through a qualitative project. This workshop will introduce participants to these qualitative essentials such as: theoretical positioning, inductive thinking, the role of self, methodological cohesion, and rigor/standards in qualitative inquiry. Participants will have the opportunity to consider these essentials in the context of their own projects. The workshop will follow selections from my little paperback, Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry available at a reduced conference rate from Left Coast Press.

5. Carlos Calderón

Workshop Title: Quality Assessment of Qualitative Health Research: advancing in possible integrated proposals.

Language: Spanish;

Evaluación de la calidad de las investigaciones cualitativas en salud: avanzando posibles propuestas integradoras.

En este Taller se plantea compartir con los participantes posibles áreas de consenso para promover la calidad en nuestro trabajo como investigadores cualitativos principalmente en el ámbito de la salud y de los servicios sanitarios. Se expondrán las principales propuestas y ejes de debate acerca de la evaluación de la calidad de la investigación cualitativa, así como las repercusiones de las políticas basadas en este campo. Finalmente se argumentará la conveniencia de diferenciar tres dimensiones en la labor evaluadora: los criterios, el proceso y la escritura. El taller se llevará a cabo en español –la comunicación en inglés también es posible-, con una doble intención deliberativa y pragmática, y por tanto, intentará combinar el componente expositivo con la discusión de ejemplos prácticos y la interacción entre los asistentes.

Quality Assessment of Qualitative Health Research: advancing in possible integrated proposals.

In this Workshop we will try to share with the participants some possible consensus areas to promote the quality as qualitative researchers, particularly on the health and health care services fields. The main proposals and debate grounds will be exposed and also the evidence based politics’ influences. We will finally argue in favour of distinguishing three different dimensions in quality assessment: criteria, process and writing. The Workshop will be in Spanish – communication in English will be possible too-, by means of both deliberative and pragmatic dynamics, combining theoretical discussions, practical examples and interaction among participants.

6. Donna M. Mertens & Kelly M. Munger

Workshop Title: Qualitative Research and Social Transformation in the Disability Community

    This workshop will examine the role of qualitative research as a contributor to the social transformation agenda of the disability community. The philosophical assumptions of the transformative paradigm will be used to examine what is meant by ethical approaches to research with the disability community in terms of the promotion of human rights and social justice. Strategies for eliciting and documenting realities as they are experienced by people with disabilities will be discussed in terms of dimensions of diversity that are relevant in specific contexts (e.g., use of various modes of communication, need for supportive accommodations). Methods for building relationships with people with disabilities will be shared based on cultural respect and partnership development. Methodological implications for qualitative (and mixed methods) will be discussed as they are applicable for the contribution to the social transformation agenda. This workshop encourages people with disabilities and people who work with the disability community to engage in discussions of strategies and experiences relevant to these topics.

7. H. L. Goodall, Jr.

Workshop Title: Writing Quality Inquiry: Self, Stories, and Academic Life

    This workshop will provide a practical approach to crafting narratives designed for qualitative audiences and general readers. Participants will be asked to work on their own narratives as well as to provide helpful responses to the narratives of other participants. We will use my little paperback volume, Writing Quality Inquiry: Self, Stories, and Academic Life as a workbook. Participants are encouraged to read this book prior to the workshop. Copies may be obtained online from your favorite vendor or directly from the publisher (Left Coast Press). For those who cannot obtain a copy prior to the Congress, the publisher is offering a 20% discount to Congress participants onsite.

8. Anne Kuckartz

Workshop Title: Introduction into MAXQDA: Setting up Your Data for a Computer Assisted Analysis

    This workshop will demonstrate the essential steps for a computer assisted qualitative study. It concentrates on the basic tasks of data analysis: Coding, writing memos, analyzing data (searching for and interpreting selected segments of the texts), constructing theory. The main focus will be on revealing ways to use the computer as a tool without loosing control and flexibility, neither in respect to the data analysis nor in respect to the management of knowledge produced throughout the analysis. These topics are approached as an introduction into MAXQDA 2007, one of the leading software tools for qualitative data analysis. The workshop is hands-on, so participants should bring their own laptop.

9. Johnny Saldaña

Workshop Title: Ethnodrama and Ethnotheatre: Arts-Based Research from Page to Stage

    No prior theatre or performance experience is needed to participate in this workshop. Arts-based research, ethnodrama in particular, has been advocated by such key figures in qualitative inquiry as Norman K. Denzin and Yvonna S. Lincoln as a powerful way for ethnography to recover yet interrogate the meanings of lived experiences. This workshop will introduce the fundamentals of dramatizing data and explore how qualitative research transfers "from page to stage." The session will provide a literature review of available ethnodramas with participants reading aloud informally from scripts (and, pending A/V availability, watching videos of ethnotheatrical performance). We will then explore how the participants' personal lived experiences can become "autoethnographic monologues." Participants will select a personal story as the basis for workshopping an informal retelling of that work to peers. The facilitator will guide each researcher-as-storyteller through the process of selecting necessary sensory details, choosing evocative language, and employing gesture and voice as instruments for dramatizing the data.

10. Janice Morse

Workshop Title: Mixed Methods: Principles and Procedures

    In this workshop I will discuss advances in mixed-method design involving the interface of qualitative and quantitative methods. First I will distinguish between multiple-methods and mixed-methods, and why mixed-method designs may present threats to validity. We will then discuss the notion of theoretical drive, and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual simultaneous designs. Finally, I will discuss sequential designs: QUAL-quan (single sample, data transformation) and QUAL-quan and QUAN-qual two sample designs.

11. Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt

Workshop Title: 'Between the two': Using Deleuzian Thought in Collaborative Writing

12. Michal Krumer-Nevo & Maya Lavie-Ajayi(tentative)

Workshop Title: Social-Change-Methodologies In Social Work Research

     The workshop will focus on the potential social change contribution of various research methodologies in the realm of social work. In particular we will discuss the contribution of methodologies based on the participants' voices, e.g. narrative and life stories, and methodollogies based on the participants' knowledge, e.g. participatory action research. The discussion will present the differences between the two kind of methodologies and will examine their connection with social work practice.

13. Mitch Allen (Publisher, Left Coast Press, Inc.& C. Deb Laughton, Guilford Publishing Company)& C. Deborah Laughton (Publisher, Methodology & Statistics)

Workshop Title: Publishing a Qualitative Study

     This workshop is designed to give the researcher guidance on how to publish a qualitative study. Taught by one of the leading publishers of qualitative books, you will learn how to think about your book or article as a publisher or journal editor would, how to sell them on your idea, and how to get the writing finished. Using instruction, brief exercises, and group discussion, you will be given strategies for approaching and convincing a publisher to publish your book, ways to make your article attractive to editors, and concrete steps for finishing that half-done study on your computer. Bring your book or article idea to be discussed.

14.Claudio Moreira & Marcelo Diversi

Workshop Title: Decolonizing Classrooms

Afternoon Session: 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM

15. Arthur Bochner & Carolyn Ellis

Workshop Title: Writing Autoethnography and Narrative in Qualitative Research

This workshop will focus on writing personal narratives and reflexively including researchers' selves and their interaction with participants in ethnographic projects. Topics covered will include: narrative truth; ethics; developing scenes, characters, conversation, and dramatic action; writing vulnerably and evocatively; truth and memory; writing as inquiry; interactive interviews and co-constructed narratives; evaluating and publishing autoethnography.

16.Ma. del Consuelo Chapela, Carolina Martínez-Salgado,& Addis Abeba Salinas

Workshop Title: Understanding and Doing Interpretation

This workshop is open to everybody and will be presented in Spanish. First we will present a brief insight into interpretation from three perspectives: understanding of the human being as constructor of meaning and language; historic development of interpretation; and the importance of interpretation for the achievement of QI social action. Next we will experience interpretation in a way that we can see interpretation potential and also some frequent interpretation mistakes. Finally we will dialogue about the importance of an interpretation that is deep, coherent, and respectful of informants for critical QI action. If you are going to participate in this workshop, you are encouraged to bring along with you a small object with a particular value for you that you particularly cherish. "

QI08. TALLER ‘ENTENDIENDO Y HACIENDO INTERPRETACIÓN

Este taller está abierto a todos los congresistas y será presentado en español. Primero haremos un breve recorrido por los fundamentos de la interpretación desde tres perspectivas: la del entendimiento del ser humano constructor de significado y lenguaje; la del desarrollo histórico de la interpretación; y la de la importancia de la interpretación para lograr la acción de la metodología cualitativa en el cambio social. Enseguida llevaremos a cabo algunas experiencias prácticas de interpretación que nos permitan identificar algunos errores frecuentes en la interpretación. Finalmente dialogaremos sobre la importancia que tiene la interpretación profunda, coherente y respetuosa del informante para la acción crítica de la averiguación cualitativa. Se solicita a quienes se inscriban en este taller que traigan un pequeño objeto al que en un momento de su vida hayan asignado un valor particular y que resguarden como algo valioso.

17. Ian Stronach and Dean Garrett

Workshop Title: "The Art of Deconstruction"

     This workshop will consider practices of deconstruction, and seek to explore in a practical way what it means to *do* rather than give an account of such research activity. The workshop will draw on recent publications by the authors dealing with theory, methodology and deconstructive case study. No prior reading is necessary, but those in search of preliminary orientation may find the following helpful.

     Stronach, I., Garratt, D. et al (2007) Reflexivity, the picturing of selves, the forging of method. Qualitative Inquiry 13, 2: 179 - 203. Stronach, I. (2009) Globalizing education, educating the local: how method made us mad. London: Routledge.

18. John W. Creswell

Workshop Title: Controversies and Issues in Mixed Methods Inquiry

19. Norman Denzin & Michael D. Giardina

Workshop Title: Performance Ethnography

    This performance-based workshop will focus on the implications of decolonizing emancipatory discourses, and indigenous epistemologies for critical, interpretive inquiry. The workshop will foreground post 9/11/01 racialized performance narratives. Participants will form performance groups, Working back and forth between the personal. moments of epiphany, and the political, we will stage performances that enact visions of a free democratic society. Traditional forms of qualitative inquiry are put into relief as we disrupt the notion of "business as usual" in the current interpretive social science community.

20. Jane F. Gilgun & Karen Staller

Workshop Title: Navigating the Academy as Qualitative Social Work Researchers

     This workshop offers practical strategies to aid qualitative social work researchers to advance in their careers. The workshop is designed for PhD students and junior faculty but welcomes faculty at all levels of rank, who are engaging in qualitative research projects or plan to do so. We will provide information necessary for academic success including understanding issues related to promotion and tenure, strategies for finding funding and identifying receptive journals for publication, and strategies for completing dissertations and research reports. We will also stress the importance of networking with like-minded faculty, taking leadership roles in associations of qualitative social work researchers, and engaging in on-going education of others about how qualitative research contributes to social work’s mission of social and economic justice.

The workshop will be conducted by two senior and one mid-career faculty members with long-term experiences in mentoring Ph.D. students, junior, and mid-career faculty in several different U.S. schools of social work. We welcome scholars from other disciplines to this workshop, and we have mentored across disciplines, but our examples will primarily be from our perspectives as social work faculty.

21. Ronald Pelias

Workshop Title: Performative Writing

     The workshop is designed to help participants think through what constitutes performative writing and to apply that thinking to their own work. The workshop will address how texts can perform on the page, how performative writing stands in relationship to other qualitative methods, how particular writing strategies can be deployed to make a text perform, how to manage ethical concerns that emerge in performative writing, and how experience, rendered evocatively, functions as evidence. The participants will have an opportunity to engage in performative writing through a series of planned exercises that will demonstrate the power of performative writing techniques. The workshop is open to all who have an interest in performative writing as a method.

22.Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Workshop Title: Emergent Technologies For Qualitative And Mixed Methods Research

    Emergent technologies have pushed against the boundaries of qualitative research practice. This didactic workshop will explore issues regarding how qualitative researchers can effectively apply new technological innovations, including the use of the internet, mobile phone technologies, geospatial technologies, and the incorporation of computer-assisted software programs, to collect and analyze both qualitative and mixed-methods data.

This workshop will:

(l) Provide an overview of some of the newest mobile technologies (using GPS) in the service of gathering qualitative data. The mobile phone allows the researcher to capture personal experience in real time and space The collection of user experience data has enormous implications for the study of human interaction. The researcher is able to study experience in context over an extended period of time using fewer resources and in a less obtrusive manner. We provide in-depth examples how this technology might be applied to a qualitative research project. We will also discuss some of the ethical, issues emergent technologies raise for social researchers.
(2) Computer Assisted Software for Multi-media Analysis and Mixed Methods Analysis We demonstrate the latest data gathering and analysis software for analyzing multi-mediated data qualitative data -web-based data, audio, video and images using the computer-assisted data analysis package, HyperResearch and HyperTranscribe. We will also discuss the integration of computer-assisted software in analyzing qualitative and mixed methods data.

23. Alecia Jackson and Lisa A. Mazzei

Workshop Title: Straining Notions of Voice: Deconstructive Practices

    Challenging un-problematized notions and practices of voice in qualitative inquiry is the focus of this workshop. Such “troubling” of voice seeks to question its privileged status in qualitative inquiry. The goal of this workshop is to put voice under poststructural scrutiny in order to challenge the constraints that limit what “counts” as voice, and therefore data, in traditional qualitative research. Using transcripts and published work, participants will consider deconstructive strategies that seek the limits of voice toward a consideration of that which is to be learned from “evidence” that has previously gone unnamed and unnoticed.

In this workshop, participants will focus collectively on straining voice, confronting the limits of a reliance on narrative voice in qualitative inquiry. Through an examination of transcripts from participants’ own research and published qualitative work in flagship journals, participants will engage deconstructive questions that will enable a critique of authority, authenticity, presence, and meaning of voice. We envision that the activities and ensuing discussion will de-center uncritical practices of data collection, analysis, and representation; this de-centering will be accomplished by working against conventional strategies of voice that present either unadulterated (i.e., “raw”) participant voices or the inclusion of a multiplicity of voices (i.e., “polyvocality”). The workshop activities will challenge those who conduct qualitative inquiry to think differently about how they collect, analyze, and represent meaning using the voices of others, as well as their own.

This workshop will be interactive. Participants will be asked to read one published research representation before the workshop (provided by the organizers), and to share data from their own research.

24. Kathy Charmaz

Workshop Title: Grounded Theory Methodologies for Social Justice Projects

This workshop session introduces ways to use grounded theory methods to study social justice issues. Grounded theory methods consist of flexible guidelines to adopt, alter, and fit particular research problems, not to apply mechanically. With these guidelines, you expedite and systematize your data gathering and analysis. These methods and the area of social justice are treated as serving mutually complementary purposes. Grounded theory methods can assist social justice researchers in making their work more analytic, precise, and compelling. A focus on social justice can help grounded theorists to move their methods into macro analyses. Major grounded theory strategies will be presented with suggestions about how use them to spark fresh ideas about data. Familiarity with grounded theory methods is helpful but is not necessary. The work session covers an overview of basic guidelines and includes several hands-on exercises. If you have collected some qualitative data, bring a completed interview, set of field notes, or document to analyze. If you do not have data yet, we will supply qualitative data for you. If you prefer to use a laptop for writing, bring one, but you can complete the exercises without a computer.

25. Charles Garoian

Workshop Title: Performing the Spectale

26. Gaile S. Cannella & Yvonna S. Lincoln & Donald R. Collins & Michelle S. Perez

Workshop Title:"Designing Critical Qualitative Research: Activist Methods that Counter Entrepreneurial and Disaster Capitalisms "

Scholars from a range of perspectives and fields have pointed to the need for critical conceptualizations of research purposes and practices. Yet, this work has not usually challenged domination in everyday life. The contemporary neoliberal context of entrepreneurial and disaster capitalisms (whether planned or emerging as if natural), and the possibilities for exploitation and radical social engineering generated by that context, results in a contemporary circumstance in which researchers must accelerate their own critical methodologies and rethink the purposes of those practices. This rethinking demands that researchers examine their own entrepreneurial research agendas. Further, this reconceptualization involves a "multilogical critical" research perspective and can employ methodological critical bricolage that becomes a multiperspectival process. Additionally, anti-colonial understandings that would privilege egalitarian activist perspectives and support collective reciprocal relations can facilitate this critical bricolage incorporating "diversality" and the recognition of the broader ideological, cultural, and political context (See J. Kincheloe on critical bricolage). This rethought research conceptualization would be especially useful for revealing circumstances that construct and promote cycles of disaster, as well as conditions of exploitation, invisibility, and erasure from within practices of capitalist entrepreneurialism.

Participants in this workshop will:
(1) examine critical construction of research problems needed within this neoliberal, global context;
(2) explore data collection and analysis methods that can be used to design critical bricolage and are consistant with multilogical critical perspectives;
(3) discuss forms of dissemination that are public and critically activist. Finally, as time allows, small groups will work together to construct frameworks for critical qualitative research projects regarding particular neoliberal societal issues.

27. Laurel Richardson

Workshop Title:"THREE WORDS: A Workshop for everyone--in any field, any writing mode, any place in their career, any writing issue/block/delight... "

Got writer’s block? Got computer bloat? Got experimental bug? Curious about autoethnography? Wanting social relevance? Tired of workshops? Overwhelmed with questions?

In this hands -on experiential workshop our beacon is C. Wright Mill’s dictum that the sociological is the juncture between the personal and the historical. First, you will choose a half-decade of your life and write about two pages about yourself in three word sentences. Not two word. And not four. Just three words. Second, you will consider what was going on in the world during that half-decade, and write about that in three word sentences. Then, you will merge your writing about your self with your writing about the larger world. You may choose to select one sentence from each—or several sentences. Or, use what have written as a jumping off place.

There will ample time in the workshop to share and get feedback from other participants and facilitator.

If you can string three words together, you are doing very very well…and I guarantee the workshop will help you meaningfully string together just the right number of words.

28.César A. Cisneros Puebla and Aitor Gomez

Workshop Title: Qualitative Analysis Strategies

This workshop is designed around the central idea of co-constructing, with students in higher education, a dialogical collaboration in the processes of interpretation and production of decolonizing scholarship. We, facilitators and participants, will share our humble, and humbling, experiences with resisting colonizing rituals (e.g., use of titles and other power markers), exploring decolonizing possibilities of being (e.g., unconditional human rights), and with critiquing teaching while teaching. At the end, we hope participants will have new language, narratives, and ideas for advancing critical pedagogy from within our colonizing educational system.

29.Pirkko Markula and Richard Pringle

Workshop Title: Foucault's Methodologies for Transformative Projects on the Body and Health

In this workshop, we will explore how Foucault's theoretical tool kit can be used to examine the looks and uses of the body, body technologies, and ill and healthy bodies. For Foucault the body can be examined as a site through which individuals can use their power as a force for ethical conduct. In our workshop, we will begin our discussion by reviewing Foucault's major concepts (e.g., power relations, bio-politics, discourse, disciplinary techniques, technologies of the self) as they relate to doing qualitative research on the body. Our primary aim is to provide participants with a range of strategies for how to use Foucault's concepts to analyze texts, interviews, narratives and ethnographies concerning the body. We will provide specific examples and set a number of exercises to illustrate the possibilities for analyzing qualitative research data through a Foucauldian lens. These examples and exercises should help illustrate the possibilities, but also the boundaries, of using Foucault's tool kit to study the body within the constraints of neoliberal society.

29.Pirkko Markula and Richard Pringle

Workshop Title: Foucault's Methodologies for Transformative Projects on the Body and Health

In this workshop, we will explore how Foucault's theoretical tool kit can be used to examine the looks and uses of the body, body technologies, and ill and healthy bodies. For Foucault the body can be examined as a site through which individuals can use their power as a force for ethical conduct. In our workshop, we will begin our discussion by reviewing Foucault's major concepts (e.g., power relations, bio-politics, discourse, disciplinary techniques, technologies of the self) as they relate to doing qualitative research on the body. Our primary aim is to provide participants with a range of strategies for how to use Foucault's concepts to analyze texts, interviews, narratives and ethnographies concerning the body. We will provide specific examples and set a number of exercises to illustrate the possibilities for analyzing qualitative research data through a Foucauldian lens. These examples and exercises should help illustrate the possibilities, but also the boundaries, of using Foucault's tool kit to study the body within the constraints of neoliberal society.

30.Harry Wolcott

Workshop Title: Ethics and Writing (Tentative)

31.Julianne Cheek (TBA)

32.Bronwyn Davies and Susanne Gannon

Workshop Title: Narrative and Pedagogy