Morning Session 8:30 AM -11:30 AM

1. Alecia Jackson & Lisa Mazzei

Workshop Title: Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research

In this workshop, participants will learn how to use various philosophical concepts to open up the process of data analysis in qualitative research. The purpose of the workshop is to present a new analytics that refuses mechanistic coding and reducing data to themes in traditional qualitative data analysis. The workshop leaders will show how “thinking with theory” pushes research and data and theory to exhaustion. Using a common interview data set from first-generation academic women, the workshop leaders will demonstrate a process of “plugging in” theory and data; that is, the same data excerpts will be viewed across various theoretical perspectives to show how different readings get produced. Then, participants will be guided through the application of analytical questionsprovoked by the following theorists and their concepts:

• Derrida - Deconstruction
• Spivak – Postcolonial Marginality
• Foucault - Power/Knowledge
• Butler - Performativity
• Deleuze – Desire
• Barad – Material Intra-activity

This workshop will be interactive. In addition to working with data provided by the workshop leaders, participants will be encouraged to share data from their own research as well as theoretical perspectives, concepts, and analytic questions from their own disciplines. <

2. 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.

3. Christopher N. Poulos and Sarah J. Tracy

Workshop Title: Accidentally on Purpose: The inconsistency, dialectic, and dialogue of improvisation and structure in ethnography.

This workshop will provide a practical approach to crafting and evaluating narratives designed for qualitative audiences and general readers. In this workshop, we will engage two sides of ethnography: Poulos’s “Accidental Ethnography,” in which the researcher becomes attuned to signs that erupt in everyday life, and crafts compelling narratives out of these “accidental” life moments, offers an unstructured approach to ethnographic inquiry. Tracy, on the other hand, offers structured steps for constructing a high quality qualitative research report. In the process, the authors engage in debate, performance, and dialogue about the ways such approaches to ethnography may be contradictory or complementary. Participants are asked to reflect on their own research practices—moments that have been more accidental and moments that have been more structured, and the specific opportunities and challenges associated with each. Through the workshop, participants will hopefully better understand how good ethnography can both emerge “accidentally” as well as be honed and sharpened through specific structures and practices. Copies of Poulos's book, Accidental Ethnography: An Inquiry into Family Secrecy, 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.

4. Anne Kuckartz, Michael Sharp

Workshop Title: A Picture Says More Than 1000 Words - Supporting Your Analysis with MAXQDA's Visual Tools

After an introduction into the basic functions of MAXQDA, the workshop will give a detailed overview of the unique visual tools MAXQDA offers. You will have a chance to get first-hand experience with five complex, yet easy-to-use tools, focusing specifically on:

• visualizations as overviews of the current stage of your analysis;
• using visual tools to professionally present your research results.

The workshop will be hands-on, allowing participants to try out the tools of one of the world’s leading software tools for qualitative data analysis on their own research material. Participants should bring their own laptop. If you do not have access to a laptop or if there are questions about the workshop, please contact us in advance at maxworkshops@maxqda.com

5. Johnny Saldana

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 autoethnodramatic 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.

6. Jennifer C. Greene

Workshop Title: Mixed Methods Social Inquiry: Respectfully Engaging with Difference

This workshop will present a view of mixed methods social inquiry as a generative conversation across different ways of knowing and different perspectives on what is important to know. The partners in this conversation can involve different philosophical paradigms (old and new), disciplines, methodological traditions, forms of data, value stances on the role of inquiry in society, and more. The rationale for this dialogic view of mixing methods is anchored in (1) a fundamental legitimization and acceptance of different approaches to social inquiry, with none intrinsically privileged, and (2) a values commitment to engaging with difference toward better understanding and acceptance.

Workshop participants will be offered opportunities to probe and challenge the assumptions underlying this rationale for a methods dialogue in the context of their own research interests and projects. In addition, the workshop will offer practical guidance for applying this dialogic vision of mixed methods inquiry to inquiry practice, with a focus on integrative approaches to mixed methods analysis and interpretation.

7. Ken Gale and Jonathan Wyatt

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

'philosophy involves creating concepts that are always new'. (Deleuze and Guattari, 1994: 5)

Within the excitement and expectation of the crisis of representation it is not just philosophy that engages in the continuing processes of creative conceptualisation; we wish to argue that in all aspects of human subject research such processes of engagement are both inevitable and necessary. Further we would argue that Richardson's inducement to use writing as a method of inquiry steers us headlong into exciting and productive conceptual and collaborative collusion with the ideas and approaches of Deleuze.

This provides a sketch of our performative autoethnographic method in which, we would argue, the vulnerabilities which emerge in moving the self from the purely personal into the politically charged terrain of the collaborative creates what Denzin has referred to as the 'sacred places' in which exciting new possibilities for human subject research open up.

The workshop is designed, therefore, to promote the use of a range of 'figures' found, conceptualised and illustrated in the work of Deleuze with a view to encouraging the workshop participants to employ these figures in practical engagement with and development of their own writing in collaborative contexts.

Pre-workshop reading Will be distributed to provide some introduction and opportunity to:

• critically reflect upon relevant aspects of Deleuzian philosophy,
• initially consider how figures drawn from this philosophy might contribute to collaborative writing approaches
• read some examples of collaborative writing that has made use of these figures

References: Deleuze G and Guattari F (1994) What is philosophy London Verso

8. Mitch Allen (Publisher, Left Coast Press, Inc.) & C. Deb Laughton (Publisher Guilford Publishing Company, 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 two 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.

9. Sharlene Hesse-Biber

Workshop Title: Mixed and Emergent Methods Workshop

    This workshop will introduce qualitatively driven approaches to mixed methods and emergent methods data collection and analysis. We will introduce the concept of "emergent" and "mixed" methods. We will employ a case study approach that introduces research projects that sucessfully apply both types of methods in their data collection and analysis strategies. We discuss the strengths and limitations of in applying these methods tools.
The second half of the workshop will demonstrate how to integrate the use of computer-assisted software into a mixed methods and emergent research project. Computer assisted software can be an excellent way to manage large numbers of qualitative text, audio, video and graphic data as well as still images.
We will demonstrate how computer assisted software can carry out a grounded theory approac to the analysis of your data --from memoing to coding and retrieving your materials. It is also possible to conduct team work across geographical regions.
We will explore how to carry out a specific mixed methods analysis including transforming your qualitative data into quantitative categories ( quantitizing ). We will also explore some of the methodological issues involved in employing software in your analysis. We will use HyperResearch, an easy to learn user friendly computer-assisted software package that analyzes qualitative data ( text, audio, video and graphics) as well as HyperTranscribe, a computer-assisted transcribing software tool (you can download a free demo of each product at researchware.com ). We will address the following in our data analysis portion of the workshop:
What is your data analysis style?
Before the workshop meets we ask you bring a short reflexive memo on this question that you would like to share with the group (I will call on volunteers to share their memo).
We will provide a didactic exercise on finding your data analysis standpoint.
We will take up some advanced features of the HyperResearch and HyperTranscribe program starting with the Hypothesis Tester and advanced coding and memo features, including the network diagramming. We will talk about transcription as a form of data analysis. In addition, we will demonstrate how HR software is used to integrate a mixed methods analysis and emergent methods analysis.

10. Claudio Moreira & Marcelo Diversi

Workshop Title: Decolonizing Classrooms and Epistemologies

    This workshop is thoroughly grounded in the worlds of both the colonizer and colonized and it focuses primarily in the political space of a classroom. We, the authors situated between the world of northern academe and our southern origins, try to create a dialogue that works back and forth across Paulo Freire, Gloria Anzaldúa, Soyini Madison, Dwight Conquergood, Linda T. Smith and various Third World feminisms. This workshop evokes the form of a manifesto, an invitation to both indigenous and non-indigenous scholars to think through the implications of connecting theories of decolonization and the postcolonial and indigenous epistemologies with emancipatory discourses, critical theory, critical pedagogy and/in performance.

It 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. We believe that critical methodologists, can—in concert with indigenous methodologies—speak to oppressed, colonized persons living in postcolonial situations of injustice: women of all colors, situations, and ethnicities; queer, lesbian, transgendered individuals; Aboriginal, First Nation, Native American, South African, Latin American, Pacific and Asian Islander persons. We seek the utopia of social justice. At the end, we hope participants will have new language, narratives, and ideas for advancing critical pedagogy from within our colonizing educational system.

Reference: Betweener Talk: Decolonizing Knowledge Production, Pedagogy, and Praxis. 2009, Left Coast Press.

Afternoon Session: 12:30 PM – 3:30 PM

11. 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.

12. John W. Creswell

Workshop Title:Controversies and Issues in Mixed Methods – An Update

Mixed methods research is over 20 years old, and significant developments have taken place around the world and across many disciplines in the last five years. As interest grows, it is matched by an increase in questions and controversies. This is a healthy sign for the development of mixed methods and its various scholarly communities. This workshop addresses these controversies and updates them. This workshop will begin with the controversies I introduced in my chapter in the 4th edition of the SAGE Handbook on Qualitative Research (Denzin & Lincoln, 2011), such as need to resist the move toward consensus in mixed methods research, how certain forces may be misguiding mixed methods (e.g., funding sources), how the language of mixed methods may marginalize qualitative research and create dominant discourses, how the paradigm debate continues on underground, and how mixed methods designs misappropriate methods from other fields. The conversation will continue on to newer controversies that have arisen and are being discussed in various mixed methods venues. The format will be a presentation augmented by discussion in which participants share experiences with these issues.

13. 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.

14. 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.

15. Yvonna S. Lincoln

Workshop Title: The new experimental writing forms

    Participants should come with some qualitative data, analyzed and organized in a systematic fashion, if at all possible, as writing will be a part of the workshop. Exploration of experimental forms--pleated, layered texts, poetry, fiction, "messy 0/00 texts, autoethnographic stories, and performance ethnographies--will be undertaken, in part via performance and dramatic reading, and participants will begin writing experiments utilizing their own data. Small research projects, dissertation data, or other ethnographic studies provide good fodder for writing exercises.

16. Pirkko Markula

Workshop Title: Foucault's Methodologies for Qualitative Research on the Body, the Self, 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. In our workshop, we will begin our discussion by reviewing Foucault's major concepts (e.g., power relations, discourse, disciplinary techniques, technologies of the self) asthey relate to doing qualitative research on the body and the self. We willprovide specific examples and set a number of exercises to illustrate the possibilities for analyzing qualitative empirical material 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 and the self within the constraints of neoliberal society.

17. Valerie Janesick

Workshop Title:Oral History as a Social Justice Project: Using photos, video, and written text to tell someone's story

     The purpose of this workshop is to describe, explain, and practice ways to represent oral history interview data through photography, video, blogs, web based data and narrative writing. Actual transcripts from current studies and sample photographs will be used to practice data representation, analysis and interpretation. Members are encouraged to bring digital cameras, digital video recorders and/or laptops to the session. Constructing a written narrative which incorporates written text and photography will also be practiced in the session. Any level of researcher may find this session useful. Members will take photographs of the Congress setting and participants and practice writing narrative vignettes. The use of artistic approaches to data representation, analysis and interpretation will be stressed as well as the social justice implications of getting stories from the disenfranchised.

18. Tami Spry

Workshop Title: From Body to Page to Stage: Writing and Performing Autoethnography

     Why perform autoethnography?  What is the pedagogical or epistemological gain?  This workshop provides  a methodological introduction to performative autoethnography, blending three elements‹the lived body, the body on the page and the body in performance.  In this workshop we will engage the process of critical reflection, writing, and performing autoethnography as a continuaand interdependent process through a clear and comprehensive methodology of analyzing, composing, and performing autoethnography through the concept of a textualizing body.  The composition and performance process continually forms and reforms the body, the body of the text, the text of the body, and ultimately offers a deep and intimate understanding of self/other/culture.  Performative autoethnography is a methodology designed to be available to all people regardless of any previous theatrical experience.

19. Ron Pelias

Workshop Title: Citation and Qualitative Inquiry

This workshop explores various ways in which citations might be used in qualitative inquiry. Instead of seeing citation simply as a contextualizing literary review at the beginning of an essay or as a mode of evidential proof, the workshop opens up alternative writing strategies for using the words of others. Workshop participants will practice such writing methods as processual acknowledgment, affective dissent, and layered intervention. Participants should bring five brief quotations that they would like to experiment with in the workshop.

20. Joe Norris

Workshop Title:Generating, Translating, and Disseminating Research through a Participatory Playbuilding Process

This arts-based workshop integrates theatrical techniques throughout the entire collaborative research process as the participants, Actor/Researcher/Teachers (A/R/Tors) tell stories, collectively analyze them for themes, and devise scenes to perform and workshop with a live audiences. It will be potentially performed later in the conference, if participants are willing.

21. Stacy Holman Jones and Tony Adams

Workshop Title: LBGTQ Communities and Qualitative Inquiry: Experiences, Issues, and Seeking Change

The purpose of this workshop is to explore the characteristics of, barriers to, and opportunities in research with lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) communities. Participants will discuss a variety of topics related to LGBTQ experience—topics such as language, embodied performances of sex, gender, and sexuality, inadequacies of extant qualitative research, qualitative methods most appropriate for studying LGBTQ communities and issues, the ethics of representing LBGTQ communities and issues, means for introducing LBGTQ experiences and issues into research methods courses, publishing research on/about/with LGBTQ individuals and communities, and opportunities for making change in/with LBGTQ communities and our larger world. Workshop participants will engage, discuss, write, and perform against what Dreger (2006) calls the “concealment approach” to differently gendered and, we would add, desirous identities and bodies—an approach that in particular tries to eliminate the existence of such differences or, at the very least, pretend that LBGTQ persons do not exist—and, in so doing, will show how/why categories such as “male” and “female” are not natural, definitive categories but rather “moral” categories (Garfinkel, 1967) that guide/limit how, what, and who we see and value.

22. Laurel Richardson

THREE WORD WORKSHOP

Got writer’s block? Got computer bloat? Got experimental bug? Curious about Ethnography? 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 words. Not four words. Just three words.

Second, you will consider what was going in the world during that half-decade and write about that in three word sentences.

Third (ah three steps!) you will merge your writing about yourself with your writing about the larger world. You may choose to select one sentence from each—or several sentences...or us what you have written as a jumping off place.

There will be 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 well---and I guarantee that workshop will help you meaningfully string together just the right number of words.