Janet C. Richards is Professor of Literacy and Qualitative Research at the University of South Florida, and Senior Editor of Literacy Practice and Research. She was a USAID Literacy Scholar and a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria.Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. He investigates knowing and learning across the lifespan.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionJanet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael RothPART 1: Teaching for EmpowermentIntroduction to Part 1Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth2 Empowering Students of Qualitative Research to Take Charge of Their Academic WritingJanet C. Richards3 A Mindfulness-based Approach to Teaching Qualitative Research MethodsMargrit Schreier4 Empowerment through Understanding the Interaction between Philosophical Stance (Positionality) and Qualitative ResearchSuzanne Franco and Erin B. Lunday5 An Inaugural Interviewing Course: Promoting Continuous Reflexivity, Balancing Theory and Skills, Building a Community of LearnersAnna Gonzalez-Pliss and Alisha M. B. BraunPART 2: Experiencing EmpowermentIntroduction to Part 2Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth6 From Opportunities to Realities: On Being Empowered through Active Learning in Educational ResearchYew-Jin Lee7 A Framework for Niching Scholarship and Expanding Competency in Arts-based ResearchSteve Haberlin8 Transmediation of Qualitative Text Information: Encouraging Students to Employ Special Aptitudes and TalentsKia Sarnoff9 Simulations as a Teaching MethodChristy Bebeau10 How Andragogy Principles of Teaching Empowered Me: The Perspective of a High-Achieving Nontraditional Black Male StudentWilliam D. ThomasPART 3: Empowerment beyond SchoolingIntroduction to Part 3Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth11 Empowerment through Apprenticeship in the Teaching of Research MethodsWolff-Michael Roth12 Living the Praxis of Method, or How I Learned Letting Worldly Practices Organize My Professional Gaze as ScholarAlfredo Jornet13 Adoption and Long-Term Personal Effects of Reflexive Grounded TheoryFranz BreuerIndex

Janet C. Richards is Professor of Literacy and Qualitative Research at the University of South Florida, and Senior Editor of Literacy Practice and Research. She was a USAID Literacy Scholar and a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria.Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. He investigates knowing and learning across the lifespan.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionJanet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael RothPART 1: Teaching for EmpowermentIntroduction to Part 1Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth2 Empowering Students of Qualitative Research to Take Charge of Their Academic WritingJanet C. Richards3 A Mindfulness-based Approach to Teaching Qualitative Research MethodsMargrit Schreier4 Empowerment through Understanding the Interaction between Philosophical Stance (Positionality) and Qualitative ResearchSuzanne Franco and Erin B. Lunday5 An Inaugural Interviewing Course: Promoting Continuous Reflexivity, Balancing Theory and Skills, Building a Community of LearnersAnna Gonzalez-Pliss and Alisha M. B. BraunPART 2: Experiencing EmpowermentIntroduction to Part 2Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth6 From Opportunities to Realities: On Being Empowered through Active Learning in Educational ResearchYew-Jin Lee7 A Framework for Niching Scholarship and Expanding Competency in Arts-based ResearchSteve Haberlin8 Transmediation of Qualitative Text Information: Encouraging Students to Employ Special Aptitudes and TalentsKia Sarnoff9 Simulations as a Teaching MethodChristy Bebeau10 How Andragogy Principles of Teaching Empowered Me: The Perspective of a High-Achieving Nontraditional Black Male StudentWilliam D. ThomasPART 3: Empowerment beyond SchoolingIntroduction to Part 3Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth11 Empowerment through Apprenticeship in the Teaching of Research MethodsWolff-Michael Roth12 Living the Praxis of Method, or How I Learned Letting Worldly Practices Organize My Professional Gaze as ScholarAlfredo Jornet13 Adoption and Long-Term Personal Effects of Reflexive Grounded TheoryFranz BreuerIndex

Janet C. Richards is Professor of Literacy and Qualitative Research at the University of South Florida, and Senior Editor of Literacy Practice and Research. She was a USAID Literacy Scholar and a Lansdowne Visiting Scholar at the University of Victoria.Wolff-Michael Roth is Lansdowne Professor of Applied Cognitive Science in the Faculty of Education at the University of Victoria. He investigates knowing and learning across the lifespan.

• List of Figures and TablesNotes on Contributors1 IntroductionJanet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael RothPART 1: Teaching for EmpowermentIntroduction to Part 1Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth2 Empowering Students of Qualitative Research to Take Charge of Their Academic WritingJanet C. Richards3 A Mindfulness-based Approach to Teaching Qualitative Research MethodsMargrit Schreier4 Empowerment through Understanding the Interaction between Philosophical Stance (Positionality) and Qualitative ResearchSuzanne Franco and Erin B. Lunday5 An Inaugural Interviewing Course: Promoting Continuous Reflexivity, Balancing Theory and Skills, Building a Community of LearnersAnna Gonzalez-Pliss and Alisha M. B. BraunPART 2: Experiencing EmpowermentIntroduction to Part 2Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth6 From Opportunities to Realities: On Being Empowered through Active Learning in Educational ResearchYew-Jin Lee7 A Framework for Niching Scholarship and Expanding Competency in Arts-based ResearchSteve Haberlin8 Transmediation of Qualitative Text Information: Encouraging Students to Employ Special Aptitudes and TalentsKia Sarnoff9 Simulations as a Teaching MethodChristy Bebeau10 How Andragogy Principles of Teaching Empowered Me: The Perspective of a High-Achieving Nontraditional Black Male StudentWilliam D. ThomasPART 3: Empowerment beyond SchoolingIntroduction to Part 3Janet C. Richards and Wolff-Michael Roth11 Empowerment through Apprenticeship in the Teaching of Research MethodsWolff-Michael Roth12 Living the Praxis of Method, or How I Learned Letting Worldly Practices Organize My Professional Gaze as ScholarAlfredo Jornet13 Adoption and Long-Term Personal Effects of Reflexive Grounded TheoryFranz BreuerIndex