Veena Vasudevan is Assistant Professor of Digital Media and Learning, University of Pittsburgh School of Education, USA.Nora Gross is a Core Fellow/Visiting Assistant Professor of Sociology at Boston College, USA.Pavithra Nagarajan is Senior Research Associate at Institute for State and Local Governance at the City University of New York (CUNY), USA.Katherine Clonan-Roy is Assistant Professor of Curriculum and Foundations at Cleveland State University, USA.

• List of IllustrationsList of ContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword: Complicating the Status Quo: Daring to Care in Educational Research with YouthYolanda Sealey-Ruiz (Columbia University, USA)Caring in Research with Youth in Schools Veena Vasudevan (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Nora Gross (Boston University, USA), Pavithra Nagarajan (CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance, USA), Katherine Clonan-Roy (Cleveland State University, USA)Part I: Re/unlearning Our Orientation to Research: Critical Frameworks for Research in Schools 1. All or Nothing: Demystifying the “What,” “When,” and “How” of Participant in School-Based Research with Black Youth Natalie R. Davis (Georgia State University, USA) and Alaina Neal-Jackson (University of Michigan, USA)2. Platicando entre Compañeras: The Use of Pláticas to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas in Ethnographic Research with and for Latina High School Students Bianca N. Haro (Pitzer College, USA)3. Care as Resistance and Epistemological Necessity in YPAR Meagan Call-Cummings (George Mason University, USA) and Melissa Hauber-Özer (George Mason University, USA)Part II: Collaborating and Co-Creating with Youth: Caring Through Sharing Ownership of the Research4. From Hallway Conversations to Making Together: How Care Can Shift Relationships With Young People in Schools Veena Vasudevan (University of Pittsburgh, USA)5. “The Life of Julio Good”: The Black Ratchet Imagination & Messy Methods as Caring Ethics Ariana Brazier (ATL Parent Like A Boss, Inc., USA)6. The Reception and Reward of Relationship-Building and Enacting Care with Black Boys Advancing a Theory of Care through Building and Earning Trust with Black Boys Pavithra Nagarajan (CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance, USA)7. Developing Sustainable Partnerships between Researchers and Youth Participants: Fostering Shared Learning Across Time and Difference Matthew R. Deroo (University of Miami, USA) and Ilhan Mohamud (University student, USA)Part III: Negotiating Emergent Tensions: Developing and Sustaining Caring Relationships with Youth8. Intervening Through Intimate Inquiry with Youth Katherine Clonan-Roy (Cleveland State University, USA)9. A “Friend” or an “Experiment”?: The Paradox of Ethnographic Relationships with Youth Nora Gross (Boston College, USA)10. Unraveling a Researcher’s Practices of Care with One Disabled Youth Katherine Scott Newhouse (Columbia University, USA)11. Culturally Responsive Caring and Emergent Tensions in a Bilingual Mentoring Program in a Diverse School James S. Chisholm (University of Louisville, USA), Melanie Jones Gast (University of Louisville, USA) and Ashley L. Shelton (University of Louisville, USA)Part IV: Collaborating with Universities, Communities, and Schools: Navigating the Challenges of Caring Research Partnerships 12. Conceptions of Care and Graduate Student Researcher Positionality: Struggling to Reconcile “Researcher” Care with Personal Moral Commitments Van Anh Tran (Columbia University, USA), Errol C. Saunders, II (Columbia University, USA), Shamari Reid (The University of Oklahoma, USA) and Lum Fube (Columbia University, USA)13. Pedagogical Reflections: Teaching Care in Qualitative Research Classrooms Stephanie Masta (Purdue University, USA) and Ophélie Allyssa Desmet (Valdosta State University, USA)14. Establishing, Executing, and Extending Caring Community-Based Research Partnerships Charity Lisko (Independent Education Consultant, USA), Katie Woolford (City of Philadelphia’s Office of Children and Families, USA) and Rand Quinn (University of Pennsylvania, USA) 15. Just Inquiry Rooted in Critical Care: Participatory, intergenerational research tracing the legacy of School in the Square Samuel Finesurrey (Guttman Community College, USA), Camille Lester (City University of New York, USA), Sherry King (School in the Square, USA), Michelle Fine (City University of New York, USA, and University of South Africa, South Africa), Intergenerational S2 Research Collaborative (USA)Conclusion: Caring in Contentious Times Veena Vasudevan (University of Pittsburgh, USA), Nora Gross (Boston University, USA), Pavithra Nagarajan (CUNY Institute for State and Local Governance, USA), Katherine Clonan-Roy (Cleveland State University, USA)References Index

This new volume represents an urgent paradigm shift away from research as extraction, and towards a relational ethics of care. The authors powerfully model how research can illuminate, mobilize and embody the transformative power of relationships characterized by love and dignity. Required reading for the everyday work of educational justice.