Controversy Addressed:As the nation begins to reckon with its racial past, it is now experiencing a backlash by some states implementing laws and policies that will target how civics education, controversial topics, and divisive issues will be discussed from kindergarten through higher education.  From restrictions on the teaching of academic theories that analyze systemic racism … Continue reading Call for papers: Journal of Educational Controversy

The Qualitative Research Program at the University of Georgia is hosting a virtual open house on November 15, 2021 at 12:00 PM EST. Faculty members will talk about the Ph.D. in Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methodologies and the online and on-campus Interdisciplinary Qualitative Studies Certificate programs. To RSVP, click HERE qualitative-inquirers-2-1Download

The Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methodologies PhD Program at the University of Georgia is currently accepting applications to start in Fall 2022. If you have a deep interest in the methodological, theoretical, and ethical procedures and challenges inherent to social science research and evaluation, this is a program for you. Our students contribute to the … Continue reading PHD in Qualitative Research and Evaluation Methodologies

Conference Date: October 8, 2021 Conference Location: Virtual conference Deadline: September 8, 2021 For more information and to submit a proposal, click HERE Over the past 45 years, the Georgia Educational Research Association has transformed into one of Georgia's most dynamic research organizations. The 46th Annual GERA Conference, taking place virtually on October 8, 2021, offers an opportunity … Continue reading Call for proposals: Georgia Educational Research Association

There are numerous ways to learn how to teach qualitative research methods. Prior to the advent of formal coursework, scholars were quite literally assigned to develop and teach coursework on qualitative methods that they had not taken themselves. Over the last 20 years, however, qualitative scholars have been generous in sharing resources to do with … Continue reading Teaching Qualitative Inquiry

Critical Race Theory and Classroom Practice builds upon “existing CRT in education literature to construct new methods, pedagogies, policies and ways of knowing that have the possibility for helping schools to transform themselves in ways that improve the educational outcomes for Black, Brown and Native children and families” (Lynn, 2019, p. x).  As educators in … Continue reading Call for abstracts: CRT and Classroom Practice

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) have become increasingly central to ourunderstanding of the human experience. While awareness and scholarshipabout the importance of DEI has grown, expertise involving the most effectivepedagogies for integrating DEI into teaching of psychology has not been widelydisseminated. Teaching of Psychology (ToP) invites submissions for a specialissue on Social Justice Pedagogy: Diversity, … Continue reading Call for papers: Teaching of Psychology

For the final blogpost for 2020, I would like to celebrate the work of Dr. Maureen Flint. The American Education Research Association's Qualitative Research SIG recently released a podcast episode of Qualitative Conversations in which Dr. Jennifer Wolgemuth (University of South Florida), who is chair of the QR SIG's Outstanding Dissertation Award committee, interviewed Dr. Maureen Flint, … Continue reading Celebrating award-winning doctoral research