Karen M Staller
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 118391 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Karen M Staller |
| NOMBRES | Karen M |
| APELLIDO | Staller |
| FIRMA | STALLER K M |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Michigan |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 32 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 32 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1998 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
The power of the Birkenstocks
Musings on a poetic puzzlement
In 2005, Norman K. Denzin founded the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) which for nearly two decades served as the home base for a global social justice community rooted in critical inquiry and guided by Denzin's utopian vision. Each year, he welcomed delegates to ICQI with a stanza from T.S. Eliot's poem, Little Gidding. Denzin's death in 2023 left many of his followers wondering: Why was this passage so meaningful to him? In …
In this [special] issue…. Critical social work and the Denzin a/effect
“ To be faithful to ourselves, we pay a price”
In 2021, Jane Frances Gilgun retired after nearly 40 years on the faculty at the University of Minnesota in Twin Cities, USA. This article—tracing a sliver of her rich intellectual biography—was crafted from a career interview conducted for by Debra Nelson-Gardell for QSW, in four sessions, between December 2021 and March 2022. Gilgun is known for her extensive writing on qualitative methodology in social work and its connection to the Chicago Sc…
The power of the Birkenstocks
The white light vibrations of Norman K. Denzin
With Norman K. Denzin’s death on 6 August 2023, the global community of qualitative researchers lost a visionary scholar and vocal crusader in broad areas of critical and interpretivist theory, pedagogy, and practice. His pioneering work included contributions to symbolic interactionism, symbiotics, performance studies, autoethnography, and narrative performance to name a few. Founder of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) an…
Confusing questions in qualitative inquiry
Keywords qualitative research, qualitative manuscripts, qualitative interview questions, publishing qualitative research
Beware the kudzu
In (and about) this special issue
An editorial is presented to the article the World Health Organization (WHO) starts timeline of events associated with the Covid-19 global pandemic with an entry on 31 December 2019 Topics include Chinese officials imposed a lockdown and surrounding areas in a desperate attempt to control the growing epidemic;and the final product imposed additional labor on wonderful production team in India
Finding beauty in the beast
An editorial is presented to the article images of tiny orbs studded in cluster-bouquets of red, blue, or purple, flood the internet Topics include the microscopic organisms have transmitted as aerosols like so pixie dust, ejected with every utterance, sneeze, or outgoing breath;and how to make sense of death and disruption wrapped in such beguiling and atmospheric packaging
Harnessing Covid-19 to celebrate qualitative social work
Big enough? Sampling in qualitative inquiry
Memory and time travel
Stitching Tattered Cloth
This article is a transcript of a keynote performance delivered at the opening of the 14th Annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI). I compare the troubled times we face during the first year of President Donald J. Trump's administration in 2017 with conditions existing during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Similarities include mass migration, religious intolerance, nativist and anti-immigrant movements, racial injustice, …
Reforming a System That Cannot Reform Itself
Class action lawsuits have become an increasingly common way to facilitate institutional reform. The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to social workers of child welfare reform by class action lawsuits and subsequent consent decrees. The authors provide an overview of class action lawsuits, with a focus on their role in implementing systematic change in the United States. They highlight consent decrees as a means of settling c…
Social Transformation from the inside Out
This essay is based on a paper delivered in 2014 as part of a panel celebrating the 10th anniversary of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) and discussing critical pedagogy and qualitative research methods oriented toward social transformation. In this essay, I briefly examine the history of social work and its relationship to inquiry and pedagogy, my own academic biography, and the twinning of two scholarly initiatives, ICQI…
Vessels of memory and meaning
Every morning I face the pleasant task of selecting a coffee mug from a cabinet shelf crowded with mismatched options. I have collected the assorted mugs over decades, and each carries with it a unique set of memories that mark its individual history with me. Therefore, the morning ritual involves more than the utilitarian activity of finding a vessel for coffee; opening the cabinet door is like encountering a collection of memories. These ordina…
Alexithymia, Emotional Dysregulation, and Recovery From Alcoholism
This study is a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial that tested the effects of a gratitude intervention on well-being in a sample of individuals in outpatient treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Follow-up qualitative interviews unexpectedly revealed that participants found the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) to be helpful to their recovery in the ways that it asked them to identify and rate their emotions. Part…
Attitudes Toward Health-Seeking Behaviors of College Students in Ukraine
Missing Pieces, Repetitive Practices
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is a serious problem. Adult sexual predators often use strategies known as grooming to entice their victims. These include targeting particularly vulnerable youth, gift giving, and systematically engaging in desensitizing sexual behaviors. Less commonly discussed is the notion of institutional grooming, the practice of strategically placing themselves in positions of public trust where they have acces…
Children's Rights, Family Rights
In this article I explore the intersections of children's human rights, social policy, and qualitative inquiry from a social work perspective. First, I consider the relationship between human rights work and social work. Second, I argue that children add complexity to the human rights debate. In doing so, I briefly examine the conflict between children's rights as developed in the United States and that of the United Nation's Convention on the Ri…
Teaching Social Welfare History and Social Welfare Policy From a Conflict Perspective
In schools of social work, policy courses are frequently taught assuming debates occur along a liberal–conservative ideological continuum in which liberals favor equitable distribution of societal benefits and burdens, whereas conservatives emphasize individual political and property rights and personal responsibility. This dichotomous approach often results in conflict being situated primarily outside the classroom and profession while ignoring …
We thank the following reviewers who rendered extraordinary services to the International Review of Qualitative Research, Volume 2
To Get Her Heart in Hand
In this study, the author examines a small set of words uttered by a female adolescent sexual abuse survivor and an experienced male social worker practitioner. She speaks of the burden She carries in Her heart. He speaks about His responsibility to retrieve objective stories from sexually abused children, knowing He holds their hearts in His hands. Analysis focused on the words and metaphors used in the passages. Woven together, the two create a…
Railroads, Runaways, & Researchers
Using observations of railroad employees and two 17-year-old girls who wanted to board a train without proper identification or parental permission, one of the major themes of the First International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, which raised challenges to the growing practice of defining "good science" as the result of "evidence-based, biomedical models of inquiry," is considered. Limitations of evidence-based practice (EBP) in dealing with c…
Railroads, Runaways, & Researchers
Using observations of railroad employees and two 17-year-old girls who wanted to board a train without proper identification or parental permission, one of the major themes of the First International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, which raised challenges to the growing practice of defining "good science" as the result of "evidence-based, biomedical models of inquiry," is considered. Limitations of evidence-based practice (EBP) in dealing with c…
To Get Her Heart in Hand
In this study, the author examines a small set of words uttered by a female adolescent sexual abuse survivor and an experienced male social worker practitioner. She speaks of the burden She carries in Her heart. He speaks about His responsibility to retrieve objective stories from sexually abused children, knowing He holds their hearts in His hands. Analysis focused on the words and metaphors used in the passages. Woven together, the two create a…
Reforming a System That Cannot Reform Itself
Class action lawsuits have become an increasingly common way to facilitate institutional reform. The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to social workers of child welfare reform by class action lawsuits and subsequent consent decrees. The authors provide an overview of class action lawsuits, with a focus on their role in implementing systematic change in the United States. They highlight consent decrees as a means of settling c…
Missing Pieces, Repetitive Practices
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is a serious problem. Adult sexual predators often use strategies known as grooming to entice their victims. These include targeting particularly vulnerable youth, gift giving, and systematically engaging in desensitizing sexual behaviors. Less commonly discussed is the notion of institutional grooming, the practice of strategically placing themselves in positions of public trust where they have acces…
Teaching Social Welfare History and Social Welfare Policy From a Conflict Perspective
In schools of social work, policy courses are frequently taught assuming debates occur along a liberal–conservative ideological continuum in which liberals favor equitable distribution of societal benefits and burdens, whereas conservatives emphasize individual political and property rights and personal responsibility. This dichotomous approach often results in conflict being situated primarily outside the classroom and profession while ignoring …
Relationships-Responsibilities, Once Removed and Ever Connected
The author explores her personal and professional intersections with the events of September 11th. This includes relationships and responsibilities existing in both spheres and the games she played filtering and isolating pieces of her life to protect herself. Not surprisingly, the author discovers that our personal and professional selves are inseparably intertwined. So in the end, she uses this bit of public space-in the aftermath of September …
Working the Scam
This study examines the environment and worldview of Sgt. T, a veteran officer in charge of a specialized police unit. Sgt. T, along with his staff of officers and social workers, monitors a major transportation hub in a large urban setting for runaway and homeless youth as well as other minors unaccompanied by adults. The author uses skullduggery, first introduced by Sgt. T to mean "nothing is as it appears," as an interpretative lens and explor…
Knowledge Utilization in Social Work and Legal Practice
The gap between knowledge generated by systematic inquiry and its eventual use by practitioners has been a concern in social work for several decades. Explanations for the gap have been identified as the orientation or attitudes of practitioners, the character of professional education, and the nature of scientific inquiry. The structural character of both practice itself and its knowledge base have been overlooked as an explanation. By comparing…
Definitional and measurement issues in the study of community violence among children and youths
Scholarly attention to community violence exposure among children and youths has rapidly emerged over the past decade as recent data has revealed a problem of widespread proportions. While often profoundly consequential, the problem has not yet been well-understood or clearly defined, both conceptually and operationally. This article examines definitional and measurement complexities in the emerging study of community violence exposure among the …
Working the Scam
This study examines the environment and worldview of Sgt. T, a veteran officer in charge of a specialized police unit. Sgt. T, along with his staff of officers and social workers, monitors a major transportation hub in a large urban setting for runaway and homeless youth as well as other minors unaccompanied by adults. The author uses skullduggery, first introduced by Sgt. T to mean "nothing is as it appears," as an interpretative lens and explor…
Constructing the Runaway Youth Problem
Constructing the Runaway Youth Problem
In this longitudinal qualitative case study, the author examined the social construction of “runaway youth” in print media during 1960–1978. The study found running away was an unconstructed problem (or simmering social condition) in the early 1960s and featured harmless adventures. In 1967, moral panic associated with the “hippie” discourse resulted in rewriting the basic runaway narrative. Afterwards, “runaway youth” emerged as a socially const…
Relationships-Responsibilities, Once Removed and Ever Connected
The author explores her personal and professional intersections with the events of September 11th. This includes relationships and responsibilities existing in both spheres and the games she played filtering and isolating pieces of her life to protect herself. Not surprisingly, the author discovers that our personal and professional selves are inseparably intertwined. So in the end, she uses this bit of public space-in the aftermath of September …
The Structure of Federal Policy
CSWE mandates the study of social welfare policy, its history, and its evaluation; thus, assignments that require students to select policy for study are common. Educators provide frameworks for analysis but may not address the prerequisite step of locating policy for study, so students flounder in government documents without the tools to navigate the organizational and retrieval structures. This article provides basic tools for locating federal…
Railroads, Runaways, & Researchers
Using observations of railroad employees and two 17-year-old girls who wanted to board a train without proper identification or parental permission, one of the major themes of the First International Congress on Qualitative Inquiry, which raised challenges to the growing practice of defining "good science" as the result of "evidence-based, biomedical models of inquiry," is considered. Limitations of evidence-based practice (EBP) in dealing with c…
To Get Her Heart in Hand
In this study, the author examines a small set of words uttered by a female adolescent sexual abuse survivor and an experienced male social worker practitioner. She speaks of the burden She carries in Her heart. He speaks about His responsibility to retrieve objective stories from sexually abused children, knowing He holds their hearts in His hands. Analysis focused on the words and metaphors used in the passages. Woven together, the two create a…
We thank the following reviewers who rendered extraordinary services to the International Review of Qualitative Research, Volume 2
Children's Rights, Family Rights
In this article I explore the intersections of children's human rights, social policy, and qualitative inquiry from a social work perspective. First, I consider the relationship between human rights work and social work. Second, I argue that children add complexity to the human rights debate. In doing so, I briefly examine the conflict between children's rights as developed in the United States and that of the United Nation's Convention on the Ri…
Teaching Social Welfare History and Social Welfare Policy From a Conflict Perspective
In schools of social work, policy courses are frequently taught assuming debates occur along a liberal–conservative ideological continuum in which liberals favor equitable distribution of societal benefits and burdens, whereas conservatives emphasize individual political and property rights and personal responsibility. This dichotomous approach often results in conflict being situated primarily outside the classroom and profession while ignoring …
Missing Pieces, Repetitive Practices
The sexual abuse and exploitation of children is a serious problem. Adult sexual predators often use strategies known as grooming to entice their victims. These include targeting particularly vulnerable youth, gift giving, and systematically engaging in desensitizing sexual behaviors. Less commonly discussed is the notion of institutional grooming, the practice of strategically placing themselves in positions of public trust where they have acces…
Attitudes Toward Health-Seeking Behaviors of College Students in Ukraine
Alexithymia, Emotional Dysregulation, and Recovery From Alcoholism
This study is a secondary analysis of a randomized controlled trial that tested the effects of a gratitude intervention on well-being in a sample of individuals in outpatient treatment for alcohol use disorder (AUD). Follow-up qualitative interviews unexpectedly revealed that participants found the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) to be helpful to their recovery in the ways that it asked them to identify and rate their emotions. Part…
Social Transformation from the inside Out
This essay is based on a paper delivered in 2014 as part of a panel celebrating the 10th anniversary of the International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) and discussing critical pedagogy and qualitative research methods oriented toward social transformation. In this essay, I briefly examine the history of social work and its relationship to inquiry and pedagogy, my own academic biography, and the twinning of two scholarly initiatives, ICQI…
Vessels of memory and meaning
Every morning I face the pleasant task of selecting a coffee mug from a cabinet shelf crowded with mismatched options. I have collected the assorted mugs over decades, and each carries with it a unique set of memories that mark its individual history with me. Therefore, the morning ritual involves more than the utilitarian activity of finding a vessel for coffee; opening the cabinet door is like encountering a collection of memories. These ordina…
Reforming a System That Cannot Reform Itself
Class action lawsuits have become an increasingly common way to facilitate institutional reform. The purpose of this article is to provide an introduction to social workers of child welfare reform by class action lawsuits and subsequent consent decrees. The authors provide an overview of class action lawsuits, with a focus on their role in implementing systematic change in the United States. They highlight consent decrees as a means of settling c…
Memory and time travel
Stitching Tattered Cloth
This article is a transcript of a keynote performance delivered at the opening of the 14th Annual International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI). I compare the troubled times we face during the first year of President Donald J. Trump's administration in 2017 with conditions existing during the mid-to-late nineteenth century. Similarities include mass migration, religious intolerance, nativist and anti-immigrant movements, racial injustice, …
In (and about) this special issue
An editorial is presented to the article the World Health Organization (WHO) starts timeline of events associated with the Covid-19 global pandemic with an entry on 31 December 2019 Topics include Chinese officials imposed a lockdown and surrounding areas in a desperate attempt to control the growing epidemic;and the final product imposed additional labor on wonderful production team in India
Finding beauty in the beast
An editorial is presented to the article images of tiny orbs studded in cluster-bouquets of red, blue, or purple, flood the internet Topics include the microscopic organisms have transmitted as aerosols like so pixie dust, ejected with every utterance, sneeze, or outgoing breath;and how to make sense of death and disruption wrapped in such beguiling and atmospheric packaging
Harnessing Covid-19 to celebrate qualitative social work
Big enough? Sampling in qualitative inquiry
Confusing questions in qualitative inquiry
Keywords qualitative research, qualitative manuscripts, qualitative interview questions, publishing qualitative research
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