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QI2014-Abstracts.Pdf TENTH Congress of Qualitative Inquiry University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign www.icqi.org Abbott, Angela D., Grandview Elementary/Marshall University The Children are Finally LearningÑLet the Disruptions Begin! Since I became an Elementary school teacher in West Virginia 17 years ago, we have been through so many different sets of Òmore rigorousÓ standards and been Òheld accountableÓ through so many different assessment regimes that they have all begun to blur together. From “No Child Left Behind” to “Guided Reading” to “S.M.A.R.T Goals” to “Walk to Interventions” to “Personal Learning Communities,” each new initiative has come with deeper texts, better tests, newer technologies, and higher stakes. One thing that hasnÕt changed, though, is the parade of people who march through our profes- sional development sessions, our classrooms, and our planning periods, ever exhorting us to embrace the latest trend. Another thing that hasn’t changed are the interrupted lives of students in a high need school. Using a ÒDay in the LifeÓ narrative, this presentation illustrates the challenge of teaching in the face of constant disruption. Abel, Gillian Michelle, University of Otago The impact of the Prostitution Reform Act (2003) on social workers and youth (16-18) in the sex industry in Aotearoa/New Zealand See Wahab, Stephanie Abma, Tineke, VUmc/EMGO+ Beyond the Restitution Narrative: Storylines About Sport, Health and Illness of People with Diabetes See Stuij, Mirjam Aboshiaqah, Ahmad, King Saud University Can Critical Thinking Be Applied Across Disciplines and Across Countries? See Goodwin, Sheilia Rae Abu Bakr, Sarah, The Pennsylvania State University Embodying Conflict: Performance Art in the Palestinian-Israeli Context Informed by my previous theorizing and (problematizing) of a binaric ways of thinking about conflict (oppressor/Oppressed), I will focus on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Using Freire’s work, and Gustavo Boal’s theatre of the oppressed extension of it, I will argue for the value of performance in creating a conversation that otherwise may be impossible. I think of performance in the terms Freire used to think of literacy. Therefore, in this paper, I will further my argument for performance by including a social media component. Using video art (as a performative medium) in relation to Boal’s theatre of the oppressed to generate widespread (electronic) social media performances that involve large scale encounters of people of multiple identities. Abu Bakr, Sarah, The Pennsylvania State University Borders Without Access/ Borders of Excess This paper uses a transnational feminist lens that politicizes the intimate/personal, and the theoretical writing of Deleuze and Guattari to understand the state of being/becom- ing Palestinian within a world of ever-changing borders. I argue that for a displaced/exiled Palestinian, a constant involvement in the deterritorialization/reterritorialization of the changing borders of the Palestinian map is a requirement to continue a fleeting ghostly existence. A state of becoming, thus, defines the Palestinian being. Contemporary art, 2 OFFICIAL PROGRAM Abstracts especially the work of artist Mona Hatoum, is used to articulate this entanglement. The paper begins with an autobiographical description of the encounter between the West Bank barrier and myself for the first time in Summer 2013. A border built in relation to the dangers of the terrorist body, legitimized by post 9/11 war on terror justifications, terrorizes the Palestinian body, restricting access and movement. In order to preserve the privileged lives of those worth living, the exceptional State of Israel requires exceptional security (Puar, 2007). Thus, the terrorist body of the Palestinian is both policed and quarantined through access restriction and flow control. This very same wall, however, is subverted through visual art on one hand, and the constant state of coping and being that morph Palestinians into a body of resistance. From teenage boys and girls crossing on ladders and the sewage system to move between homes and schools, to Palestinian BBQs at the crossingsÕ long waits, Palestinian bodies are constantly becoming more than just- bodies, into an assemblage of resistance. References: Puar, Jasbir K. 2007. Terrorist Assemblages: Homonationalism in Queer Times. Duke University Press. Acosta Fern‡ndez, Mart’n, Universidad de Guadalajara Educative preparing of the retirement in older adults and their families See AGUILERA VELASCO, MARIA DE LOS ANGELES Acosta, Liza Ann, North Park University Creative Nonfiction and Autoethnography: The Perilous Borderlines of Researching and Dramatizing Self and Others As a writer and teacher of creative nonfiction, a writer of autobiographical and ethno- graphic ensemble devised work, and a researcher, I find myself uncomfortably straddling the borderlines of artistic license and ethnographic fidelity. In this paper, I would like to explore the questions that rise as I teach, write my own work, and help others devise/ dramatize their own stories. How do I teach to write truthfully, freely, fearlessly and artisti- cally? How do I get my story on the page when it is so intrinsically woven with someone else’s? How do the rules of literary nonfiction apply to autoethnography (and viceversa)? What can we learn from these uncomfortable twins? And most importantly, why does it matter? Adams, Erin Crews, University of Georgia The Farmers Market Feels Good: Walking and Talking in Two Local Farmers Markets This paper is based on my study of two U.S. farmers markets that was an attempt to explore research methodology in new materialism. New materialism presents new challenges to traditional qualitative research in terms of what is thinkable and doable. Farmers markets are ideal places for considering the political and economic materiality of our everyday lives. When designing the study I considered the how, not the what, of the market. I wanted to think about what it is to be in the market and how are people in the market rather than trying to constitute what the market is or what people are doing. I used a walk and talk interview method rather than a traditional face to face method to see how people move through the market, territorializing and reterritorializing this space and as a way to consider the body in qualitative research. Abstracts OFFICIAL PROGRAM 3 Adams, Heather, Ball State University Revising the Model of Posttraumatic Growth through Narrative Analysis Working with in-depth interviews, this study applies LabovÕs framework (1972) to the stories of two women with chronic illnesses, using the turning point of the narratives as a focus point to explore how the crisis of chronic illness onset can simultaneously function as a location of trauma and potential future growth. The resulting reorganization of the womenÕs self-stories yields a narrative analysis (Polkinghorne, 1995) that presents their distinct and individual experiences of illness- related failures in one or more high order life schemas (e.g., personal life philosophies) and resulting reorganization into a more adaptive schema. Analysis of narrative (Polking- horne, 1995; 2007) of these assembled stories with one another yields empirical support for theorized components of the current model of posttraumatic growth (Tedeschi & Calhoun, 2004), addressing gaps in the current literature (e.g., content of the cognitive processes), new insights and question for further inquiry. Adams, Megan, Kennesaw State University Our struggle against positivism: A journey The three authors “live in” very different worlds academically. Adams, an Assistant Professor of Reading Education, teaches qualitative methods and is able to fully inhabit a world full of qualitative inquiry and the post-intentional commitment to constantly questioning “reality”. Wright, the director of the Carl Vinson Institute of Government’s Survey Research and Evaluation Unit, must adhere to the deadlines agreed upon by her clients and her unit. Her ability to “live in” qualitative inquiry is limited by her profes- sional demands. Inglett, a doctoral student of Political Science, is practicing the craft of qualitative inquiry often despite warnings that other methods might be more advisable. This paper explores how preparing for this panel allowed us to fully “live in” a qualitative space by discussing our thoughts, ideas, and decisions about our research with each other. It also provides examples of how our writing group was formed based upon this commit- ment to avoid positivism when conducting research with human subjects in an ethical effort to respect their beliefs and ideas. Adams, Megan, Kennesaw State University Defining something for others: The ethical necessity of resisting positivism What happens if you frame a study and the participants do not know the meaning of the phenomenon you propose to study? Often framing a study and conducting it require time constraints and protocols. However, in trying to conduct post-intentional phenom- enology (Vagle, 2011), is it possible to remain open and reflexive if you must immediately begin to define something for others? How can we remain true to what we feel are ethical imperatives in research if we must make what Descartes calls “ego-centric” decisions? This paper explores how the author reverted to positivism repeatedly when trying to remain open and reflexive during a study, and how reflecting upon that process has changed the way she currently considers research questions and methods. Adams, Susan R.,
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