Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Educational Research

""LJ Slovin and Sam Stiegler offer a rethinking of the research that pushes at the normative expectations of qualitative research and asks researchers crucial questions about the research process. Throughout the book they weave together trans studies, queer studies and education to bridge these often-disparate fields to think with theory about research methodology. Slovin and Stiegler introduce the concept of showing our work as a way to think with theory and to discuss how they each made decisions about what counts as data, which data to include, and how to understand the role of desire in their ethical engagement with participants. They provide an insider’s scoop to the research process and honor the delicate and ethically complicated work of ethnographic research. They bring a careful analysis and thoughtful reflection to thinking about their research process by incorporating conversations they had with each other about how they navigated the challenges and possibilities that presented themselves throughout their research. The curiosity and care brought to these conversations and to the research participants in their study is a welcomed shift in discussions about research. This book is essential reading for graduate students and will be helpful to anyone embarking on a research project."" Dr. Julia Sinclair-Palm, Director of the Robert Quartermain Centre for SOGI‐inclusive Excellence in Education Associate Professor of Teaching in the Department of Curriculum and Pedagogy, Faculty of Education, University of British Columbia ""Embracing Queer and Trans Frameworks in Qualitative Education Research: Showing Our Work is a treasure to read and study. It is a timely text that presents the ethical work of critical qualitative inquiry with careful nuance. Slovin and Stiegler’s vulnerable conversations about methodological quandaries offer readers unique insights into the ethical work of queer and trans methodologies in critical qualitative inquiry. These conversations invite both seasoned and novice researchers from all social science disciplines to consider their own sticky and provocative moments in their studies. This book will be studied as an exemplar in research ethics in critical qualitative inquiry as well as queer and trans studies for some time."" Dr. Susan Nordstrom, Associate Professor of Qualitative Research Methodology Counseling, Educational Psychology and Research, University of Memphis