Navigating Challenges in Qualitative Educational Research

Todd Ruecker is Associate Professor of Rhetoric and Composition at the University of Nevada, Reno, USA.Vanessa Svihla is Associate Professor with appointments in Organization, Information & Learning Sciences and Chemical & Biological Engineering at the University of New Mexico, USA.

• Chapter 1: Introduction: Sanitized Research Descriptions and Messy Realities: A Story of ContrastsChapter 2: The Wheels of Bureaucracy Go Round and RoundChapter 3: Research Methods for Reaching Urban Students from Groups Underrepresented in STEM DisciplinesChapter 4: Chasing the Team: Participant Recruitment Strategies for Qualitative Research into Student-Athlete WritersChapter 5: Navigating Administrator-Researcher Roles: Developing Recruitment Strategies for Conducting Programmatic Assessment with Diverse Undergraduate and Graduate WritersChapter 6: The Predicament of ‘Being There’: Conflict and Emotional LaborChapter 7: Researchers or Service Providers? A Case of Renegotiating Partnership in a Research-Practice PartnershipChapter 8: Representation and Emotion: Researching in the Rural U.S. in a Politically Polarized TimeChapter 9: Criss-Cross Applesauce, "Where are you from?" and Other Intellectual ChallengesChapter 10: Thinking Backward and Forward: Everyday Interruptions in School-Based ResearchChapter 11: Two Steps Forward, One Step Back: Obstacles and Progress in Conducting Research in Elementary ClassroomsChapter 12: On Pursuing Quixotic Goals: What are Worthwhile Interruptions to Research?Chapter 13: Excessive Peer Review and the Death of an Academic ArticleChapter 14: Broader Impact Versus Intellectual Merit in the Dissemination ProcessChapter 15: "There are Notable Linguistic Problems": Publishing as a Non-Native Speaker of EnglishAfterward: What Interruptions Can Tell Us About the Nature of Qualitative Educational Research