What does it mean to be a responsible methodologist? Certainly it is more than being a research middle-manager who ensures that the tools used in a thesis or dissertation are of the right gauge.
In The Responsible Methodologist, leading education scholar Aaron Kuntz uses the latest movements in social theory to challenge qualitative researchers to reconceptualize their work away from the technocratic toward an intervention, an ethical disruption of the norm, an activist stance toward progressive social change. Inviting creativity and vision, he insists that the responsible methodologist become a force leading the discourse toward social justice.
His book: challenges the technocratic role given to qualitative methodologists in university settings; urges them to become a force for change through Foucault’s parrhesia, risky truth-telling; includes research projects that have incorporated this vision.
In The Responsible Methodologist, leading education scholar Aaron Kuntz uses the latest movements in social theory to challenge qualitative researchers to reconceptualize their work away from the technocratic toward an intervention, an ethical disruption of the norm, an activist stance toward progressive social change. Inviting creativity and vision, he insists that the responsible methodologist become a force leading the discourse toward social justice.
His book: challenges the technocratic role given to qualitative methodologists in university settings; urges them to become a force for change through Foucault’s parrhesia, risky truth-telling; includes research projects that have incorporated this vision.
**Honorable Mention, 2017 AERA Qual SIG Book of the Year.**
Kuntz, A.M. (2015). The Responsible Methodologist: Inquiry, Truth-Telling, and Social Justice. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press; New York: Routledge.
Kuntz, A.M. (2015). The Responsible Methodologist: Inquiry, Truth-Telling, and Social Justice. Walnut Creek: Left Coast Press; New York: Routledge.
To hear Dr. Kuntz discuss his book (and qualitative inquiry generally) listen to this podcast on the New Books Network:
http://newbooksnetwork.com/aaron-kuntz-the-responsible-methodologist-inquiry-truth-telling-and-social-justice-left-coast-press-2015/
http://newbooksnetwork.com/aaron-kuntz-the-responsible-methodologist-inquiry-truth-telling-and-social-justice-left-coast-press-2015/