{"product_id":"critical-theory-methods-and-design-in-educational-research-bearing-witness-in-times-of-deepening-inequalities-hardback-9780807787816","title":"Critical Theory, Methods, and Design in Educational Research; Bearing Witness in Times of Deepening Inequalities (Hardback) 9780807787816","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCritical Theory, Methods, and Design in Educational Research\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eBearing Witness in Times of Deepening Inequalities\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eLois Weis (Author), Michelle Fine (Author), James A. Banks (Series edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780807787816\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 September 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e272 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 16.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eTwo of the foremost educational researchers chronicle their 30-year collaboration across tumultuous shifts in educational studies, bearing witness to cumulative inequities in schools and urban communities. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWeis and Fine examine \u003cb\u003ecritical research designs with young people\u003c\/b\u003e from elite, working class, and impoverished class fractions, as well as across racial and ethnic groups, including those experiencing structural dispossession and those enjoying privilege.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCurated to be useful to today’s students and future generations of scholars\u003c\/b\u003e, the volume chronicles the sustained impacts of unjust state systems and dives into vibrant fissures in which the imagination flourishes and possibilities grow.\u003cbr\u003eChapters explore rich linkages of theory and methods; knotty questions of collaboration, partnership, and ethics; and designs that trace social relations over time and space. A newly developed introduction and conclusion bookend six previously published chapters, many coauthored with a range of colleagues, \u003cb\u003eanimating research studies with a broad range of young people and young adults\u003c\/b\u003e navigating the uneven landscapes of education in urban America.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBook Features:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDetails linked to research methodologies, including multi-site longitudinal ethnography and longitudinal ethnographic interviews, as well as participatory action research that the authors, among others, have advanced in critical educational studies.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProvides examples of educational research that interrogate inequities and document radical possibilities by race, class, gender, immigration status, and sexuality.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eExamines projects that have been designed alongside and by vibrant research teams from across schools, prisons, youth movements, and public and private educational P–16 plus settings.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eInterrogates how the authors evolved innovative research methods and ethics attentive to “studying up,” mapping, national youth-led surveys, participatory inquiry behind bars, and with middle school students.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eOffers educational designs that address inequities in STEM education and outcomes and the impact of state violence on young people; as well as methods for understanding structural arrangements, youth identities, and on-the-ground research for justice.\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSeries Foreword  ix\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAcknowledgments  xv\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduction  1\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTo Begin Again (James Baldwin)  2\u003cbr\u003eTheorizing, Documenting, and Contesting the Structural Gears of Educational Inequity  7\u003cbr\u003eA Road Map Through Critical Designs  10\u003cbr\u003eReferences  12\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e1.  Critical Bifocality and Circuits of Privilege: Expanding Critical Ethnographic Theory and Design  17\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLois Weis and Michelle Fine\u003cbr\u003eStudying Privilege Inside New Global Realities: Working Inside the Press of the Global Knowledge Economy  22\u003cbr\u003eDispossession Stories: How Public Space Becomes a Private Commodity  32\u003cbr\u003eCritical Bifocality and Circuits of Privilege: Concluding Thoughts  41\u003cbr\u003eReferences  43\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART I: DOCUMENTING THE RELENTLESS MECHANISMS OF INEQUALITY\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e2.  Gender, Masculinity, and the New Economy  51\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLois Weis\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  51\u003cbr\u003eChanging Economies, Changing Gender  52\u003cbr\u003eConclusion  66\u003cbr\u003eAuthor’s Note  67\u003cbr\u003eReferences  67\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e3.  Class Work: Producing Privilege and Social Mobility in Elite U.S. Secondary Schools  71\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLois Weis and Kristin Cipollone\u003cbr\u003eNote for Edited Volume  71\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction  72\u003cbr\u003eCourse Selection  79\u003cbr\u003eConclusion  88\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  90\u003cbr\u003eReferences  90\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e4.  In the Guise of STEM Education Reform: Opportunity Structures and Outcomes in Inclusive STEM-Focused High Schools  93\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLois Weis, Margaret Eisenhart, Kristin Cipollone, Amy E. Stich, Andrea B. Nikischer, Jarrod Hanson, Sarah Ohle Leibrandt, Carrie D. Allen, and Rachel Dominguez\u003cbr\u003eSTEM Education Reform  95\u003cbr\u003eHigh School Opportunity Structure  96\u003cbr\u003eSites, Data Collection, and Analysis  99\u003cbr\u003eThe Effort to Expand STEM Opportunities in Denver  107\u003cbr\u003eConclusion  120\u003cbr\u003eNotes  124\u003cbr\u003eReferences  124\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART II: DOCUMENTING AND REIMAGINING EDUCATIONAL INEQUITIES THROUGH CRITICAL PARTICIPATORY ACTION RESEARCH\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e5.  Participation, Power, and Solidarities Behind Bars: A 25-Year Reflection on Critical Participatory Action Research on College in Prison  131\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Fine, María Elena Torre, Kathy Boudin, and Cheryl Wilkins\u003cbr\u003eA Short Biography of Community-Based Research  132\u003cbr\u003eCritical Participatory Action Research: Epistemic Roots  134\u003cbr\u003eChanging Minds: A Study of the Impact of College in Prison  136\u003cbr\u003eA Collaborative Approach to Design and Methods  141\u003cbr\u003eOrganizing and Presenting the Findings  141\u003cbr\u003eReflections on the Changing Minds Study and Research Justice  146\u003cbr\u003eConclusions  146\u003cbr\u003eReferences  147\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e6.  “People Are Demanding Justice”: Pandemics, Protests, and Remote Learning Through the Eyes of Immigrant Youth of Color  149\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Fine, Samuel Finesurrey, Arnaldo Rodriguez, Joel Almonte, Alondra Contreras, Aidan Lam, and the S2 Alumni Research Collective\u003cbr\u003eCPAR as Anti-Racist Public Science  150\u003cbr\u003eTheoretical Frameworks: Learning to Read the World and Produce Knowledge Through a Critical Race Lens  152\u003cbr\u003eParticipatory Design and Analysis  155\u003cbr\u003eWhy Participation Matters as an Enactment of Anti-Racist Science  157\u003cbr\u003eResults  162\u003cbr\u003eBuilding Critical Racial Consciousness Through Pedagogy and Participatory Inquiry  174\u003cbr\u003eRefusing a Return to Normality: Contributing Toward an Anti-Racist Developmental Science  175\u003cbr\u003eThe S2 Alumni Research Collective Members  176\u003cbr\u003eDeclaration of Conflicting Interests  176\u003cbr\u003eReferences  177\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e7.  Theorizing Hyphenated Selves: Researching Youth Development In and Across Contentious Political Contexts  179\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Fine and Selcuk R. Sirin\u003cbr\u003eSeptember 11 and the War on Terror Through the Eyes of Muslim Youth in the United States  180\u003cbr\u003eLiteratures at the Hyphen  185\u003cbr\u003eMethods for Studying Hyphenated Selves  187\u003cbr\u003eConfessions at the Methodological Hyphen  197\u003cbr\u003eDocumenting a History of the Present for Youth Growing Up in Contentious Political Contexts  198\u003cbr\u003eReferences  199\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e8.  Queer Solidarities: New Activisms Erupting at the Intersection of Structural Precarity and Radical Misrecognition  203\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMichelle Fine, María Elena Torre, David M. Frost, and Allison L. Cabana\u003cbr\u003ePrecarity and Misrecognition: A Politics Rooted in Redistribution and Recognition  205\u003cbr\u003eEpistemological and Methodological Muddles  211\u003cbr\u003eCumulative Misrecognition Incites Dispossession  214\u003cbr\u003eDisproportionality Along Key Vectors of Structural Precarity: Housing Insecurity, Bullying\/Harassment, and Police Aggression  216\u003cbr\u003eFrom Discrimination to Activism  218\u003cbr\u003eBut What About Health? The Curious Relationship of Discrimination, Activism, and Health Outcomes  221\u003cbr\u003eIntimate Activisms  223\u003cbr\u003eReflections  227\u003cbr\u003eFunding  228\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  228\u003cbr\u003eReferences  229\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReflections  233\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEndnotes  237\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eIndex  243\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePermissions  253\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Authors  255\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Teachers College Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52555636703512,"sku":"9780807787816","price":111.19,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/critical-theory-methods-and-design-in-educational-research-bearing-witness-in-times-of-deepening-inequalities-hardback-9780807787816","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}