J N Lester
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 15530 |
|---|---|
| NOME | J N Lester |
| PRENOMES | J N |
| SOBRENOME | Lester |
| ASSINATURA | LESTER J N |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Indiana University Bloomington |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6107-3033 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 67 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 165 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 67 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1981 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Entry Points to Qualitative Inquiry
Over the last several decades, the field of qualitative inquiry has expanded significantly, marked by a proliferation of theoretical perspectives, onto-epistemological understandings, methodological approaches, and specific methods of practice ( Denzin & Lincoln, 1994 , 2000 , 2005 , 2011 ; Denzin, Lincoln, Giardina, & Cannella, 2024 ). This expansion has also been reflected in scholarly publishing. Lester and O&s;Reilly (2015) , for instance, hi…
The construction of the role of AI in qualitative data analysis in the social sciences
Addressing the Special Issue
The articles in this special issue explore the intersections between artificial intelligence (AI) and qualitative health research at a moment of rapid technological expansion and heightened methodological debate. The contributions engage AI not as something to be adopted or rejected but as a focus of critical inquiry that raises epistemological, methodological, and ethical questions for qualitative scholars. Across diverse perspectives, the artic…
Man or Bear
The Sexual Experiences of People Living with Sickle Cell Disease
Sickle cell disease (SCD) affects over 8 million people globally and 1 in 365 Black infants in the United States are born with SCD. Because of recent medical advances, people are living significantly longer with SCD, with opportunities to experience romantic and sexual relationships. However, people with SCD experience medical challenges, such as pain crises, which can occur during partnered sexual activities. This study sought to understand how …
Letters of Love
This article examines the role of memory and remembering in qualitative research, proposing a reflective practice where memories serve not only as a backdrop but as active participants in shaping inquiry. By revisiting and engaging in remembering, we, as qualitative inquirers, forge deeper connections with subjects, encompassing the human, the natural world, and the more-than-human. Drawing inspiration from Bridges-Rhoads et al.’s invitation to e…
Using critical discursive psychology to study masculinities in media
The Persistence of Sexual Scripts and Compromised Sexual Agency
Given the lack of formal sexuality education in the United States, adolescents often rely on media, such as music, for information about sexual behavior, including sexual consent. However, popular music lyrics may perpetuate expectations for sexual behavior and consent communication that reflect unequal power between men and women, as well as sexual coercion. In this study, we used critical discourse analysis to examine the lyrics of two popular …
Scholar #Famous #Monster
Academic success is now coupled with social media engagement. Social media has become so normalized in the academy that absent a carefully curated social media presence, scholars risk being seen as unscholarly, unproductive, and unpopular. This article lays bare the pressures, mechanisms, and monstrosities of using social media to promote scholarship. We argue that the widespread adoption of social media outpaces critical attention to its ethics …
Producing Trustworthiness
This article explores the notion of research trustworthiness for ethnomethodology and conversation analysis (EMCA) studies. Informed by radical reflexivity, we focus on trustworthiness practices , the sets of activities analysts use or describe to support the adequacy of their claims. Drawing upon interactional data involving children in health care settings, we interrogate five practices: (1) unique adequacy, (2) next-turn proof procedure, (3) c…
A Mile in Their Shoes
Poetic inquiry as a form of arts-based research can penetrate the complexity, ambiguity, and multidimensional nature of representing participant emotions. This methodological approach allows researchers to explore the sensitive intersection of competing emotions without flattening the layered and often conflicting experience of participants’ embodied experiences. In this article, we share participant-voiced poems generated from interviews with fa…
Language and psychosocial oppression
In this editorial, we introduce the special issue entitled, 'Language and psychosocial oppression: Methodological approaches, challenges, and opportunities'. This special issue includes seven articles that were produced in relation to the growing attention being given to the psychological phenomena associated with (in)justice and (in)equity, with a particular focus on how justice-oriented agendas and interventions might be advanced. Specifically,…
Analyzing constructions of disability in everyday talk
In this methodological paper, we respond to the call to advance a disability justice agenda within social science research. To do so, we invite readers to engage with the intersections of discursive psychology and disability theories. Specifically, we forward new possibilities for methodologically and theoretically leveraging discursive psychology to study disability, ableism, and anti-ableism as they unfold in everyday life. To do so, we offer a…
Tell me what to do. Gabriel?’
This article explores the ways in which gender is produced in the historical romance film adaptation of Far from the Madding Crowd (2015). Utilising a visually informed, critical discursive psychology approach, we found that hegemonic masculinities and femininities are richly constructed in manners that ultimately functioned to subordinate femininity to masculinity. Moreover, multiple societal inequalities (e.g., racism, classism, heterosexism, a…
The lived experiences of rural HIV social workers
HIV service providers are the primary implementers of HIV care services, but rural HIV service providers are under researched. We used an interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore rural HIV service providers' lived experiences of working in HIV care, who work in a rural region of a Midwestern state in the United States. From July to August 2019, 15 HIV service providers participated in a one-hour semi-structured telephone interview that…
Introduction to Special Issue—Qualitative Inquiry in the 20/20s
This article offers an overview of a special issue that focuses on the reciprocal relationship between the digital tools and spaces that we use and the methodologies and methods that we take up in designing and carrying out a qualitative research study. In this editorial, we situate the special issue in the methodological literature around technologies and qualitative inquiry. We also provide an overview of the seven included articles, noting how…
Digital Worlds and Our Folding Realities
In this article, we think with the ongoing conversations on “embracing digital worlds” through juxtaposing the methodological practices enabled by “digital worlds” with the writings of science fiction. Specifically, we leverage the criticality of a Chinese sci-fi text, Folding Beijing, to shed light on issues of equity and justice in qualitative inquiry. This approach allows us to interrogate, problematize, and trespass the boundaries of the digi…
Digital qualitative research workflows
This paper introduces a framework for reflexively generating a digital research workflow; that is, a qualitative research design that intentionally considers the consequences of using digital tools and spaces in meaningful ways. This framework articulates how considering technological consequences should be, and already are, a part of engaging in methodological reflexivity. While there is vast literature on reflexivity in qualitative research, li…
How student healthcare providers in a communication skills course respond to standardized patient resistance
Beyond talk and text
Given the centrality of the visual to modern day life, this article introduces a visually informed approach to critical discursive psychology that facilitates the study of visual materials. We argue that the visual is a site where the social world is actively built and maintained, similar to what has been reasoned more generally about language use, and that critical discursive psychology can offer a rigorous approach to examining visual materials…
Toward a Practice of Qualitative Methodological Literature Reviewing
There is consensus around the value of conducting literature reviews across disciplines; however, little attention has been given to the potential(s) of engaging in a qualitative methodological literature review (QMLR). This article examines the possibilities of engaging in a QMLR by showing how it can inform qualitative research practice. After overviewing the history of literature reviews, we offer a series of questions that can inform and be i…
Avoiding Ableist Language
In this commentary, we describe how language used to communicate about autism within much of autism research can reflect and perpetuate ableist ideologies (i.e., beliefs and practices that discriminate against people with disabilities), whether or not researchers intend to have such effects. Drawing largely from autistic scholarship on this subject, along with research and theory from disability studies and discourse analysis, we define ableism a…
The social construction of stigma
In this article, we offer discursive psychology as a qualitative approach for the examination of stigma in mental health. Discursive psychology aims to closely examine conversational and textual data, most often everyday talk and institutional interactional data. This approach, heavily informed by conversation analysis and the early writings of sociologists such as Goffman and Garfinkel, offers new and innovative ways to examine the construct of …
Masculinities made visible
We addressed the lack of empirical work leveraging visual materials within the masculinities literature using Instagram photos to understand contemporary masculinity performance. By engaging in a detailed analysis of a social media context, we aimed to reveal some of the current mechanisms by which people are making meaning of the social world in the present-day, bringing to light new ways of identifying how people “do” gender. We used a visually…
Introduction to Special Issue Quality in Qualitative Approaches
Debates regarding quality in qualitative research are longstanding. There are continued calls for additional quality indicators that account for the heterogeneity of qualitative methodologies. In this introduction to the special issue, we take up the idea that quality criteria are often specific to a given methodological approach. Thus, included within this special issue, and overviewed in this introductory paper, are seven articles that outline …
Microanalysis Of Online Data
"Reclaiming" Disability in Critical Qualitative Research
This article introduces the special issue, "Reclaiming" Disability in Critical Qualitative Research, which aims to center disability and disabled people in critical qualitative research. More particularly, we highlight here how the articles included in this special issue collectively consider new possibilities for the place and practice of critical qualitative methodologies and methods in research involving disabled people. We begin this introduc…
Atlas.ti for conversation and discourse analysis studies
The use of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) has not been without controversy, with a pervasive sense of skepticism and resistance towards its adoption by many scholars. Language-based researchers in particular, such as conversation and discourse analysts, have been slow to embrace such tools for their work. In this paper we illustrate how we have used ATLAS.ti to support our own conversation and discourse analysis wor…
Constructing Hopes and Fears Around Technology
Graduate students often receive their first training in qualitative methods during an introductory course. The textbook that is chosen often sets the tone for how qualitative research is understood. We conducted a discourse analysis of the ways in which 11 introductory qualitative methods texts took up the relationship between technology and qualitative research. One text included virtually no mention of technology use; five discussed technology …
Performative acts of autism
Relatively little research has aimed to understand autism from an emic perspective. The majority of studies examining the organization of the talk of individuals with autism presume that autism organizes discourse rather than examine ways in which talk itself constructs the notion of autism. This study explored the meanings of autism performed in and through the talk of the parents of children with autism and their therapists. Drawing from a larg…
Digital qualitative research workflows
This paper introduces a framework for reflexively generating a digital research workflow; that is, a qualitative research design that intentionally considers the consequences of using digital tools and spaces in meaningful ways. This framework articulates how considering technological consequences should be, and already are, a part of engaging in methodological reflexivity. While there is vast literature on reflexivity in qualitative research, li…
Lessons from interdisciplinary qualitative research
In this article, we consider the everyday practices and methodological and theoretical tensions of interdisciplinary, qualitative work. In particular, we discuss the varied interpretations of focus group data from Burundian men and women with refugee status and explore the consequences of representations that result in deficit-based understandings. We highlight how through our research process we learned that following participants, rather than l…
Accountability and public displays of knowing in an undergraduate computer-mediated communication context
A great deal of research has examined computer-mediated communication discussions in educational environments for evidence of learning. These studies have often been disappointing, with analysts not finding the kinds of ‘quality’ talk that they had hoped for. In this study we draw upon elements of discursive psychology as we oriented to what was happening in the talk from the participants’ perspective in addition to what should be happening from …
Beyond talk and text
Given the centrality of the visual to modern day life, this article introduces a visually informed approach to critical discursive psychology that facilitates the study of visual materials. We argue that the visual is a site where the social world is actively built and maintained, similar to what has been reasoned more generally about language use, and that critical discursive psychology can offer a rigorous approach to examining visual materials…
Introduction to Special Issue Quality in Qualitative Approaches
Debates regarding quality in qualitative research are longstanding. There are continued calls for additional quality indicators that account for the heterogeneity of qualitative methodologies. In this introduction to the special issue, we take up the idea that quality criteria are often specific to a given methodological approach. Thus, included within this special issue, and overviewed in this introductory paper, are seven articles that outline …
Relational Engagements With Post-Qualitative Inquiry
In this article, I call for engaging in the post-qualitative “turn” with a sense of relationality to the past; that is, a commitment to turning traditions with care. In doing so, I point to the situated and constructed nature of methodology, theory, and even the post-qualitative “turn.” I also offer several questions (or cautions) for the field of qualitative research to consider in moving toward what St. Pierre has called the “next next.” I conc…
Is Evidence-Based Practice a Threat to the Progress of the Qualitative Community? Arguments From the Bottom of the Pyramid
Although scholars have gone to great lengths to illustrate the value of qualitative research and ensure that it is well represented in all areas of academic life, there remains a gap of equality when compared with quantitative research, which is still viewed by many as superior, specifically in applied fields such as health. This has become particularly true as the evidence-based movement has continued to find its way into discussions around the …
Establishing quality in discursive psychology
This paper introduces quality markers common to Discursive Psychology (DP) – a qualitative approach for examining talk and text. We offer a guide for researchers using DP and reviewers evaluating DP research studies. Specifically, we describe a framework involving three key domains, including: quality in data collection and management, quality in the process of analysis, and quality as related to validity and reliability. For each domain, we intr…
Examining Loss
In this article, we argue that loss often precedes critique in postcritical ethnographic work. We position this argument in relation to the moral and the political commitments that imbue postcritical ethnography, noting how a postcritical perspective invites researchers to theorize and imagine what could be otherwise. We ground our discussion in a 4-year ethnography we carried out with Burundians with refugee status living in southern Appalachia …
Discursive Psychology
In this article, we present discursive psychology (DP), a qualitative approach that focuses on the study of conversational and textual materials, including everyday interactions. Although DP is well-established methodologically and theoretically, and is used widely in Europe and in the Commonwealth countries, it is relatively unknown in counseling psychology in the United States. As such, the purpose of this article is to provide a general overvi…
Community Performances and Performative Texts as Tools for Critical Exploration
In this article, the authors present the process and experience of sharing research findings in the format of a participatory community performance. This community performance, presented in the format of a performative text, was drawn from a qualitative interview study that examined the experiences of parents, students, teachers, psychologists and teacher educators in special education meetings in the USA. The authors highlight the ways in which …
Scholar #Famous #Monster
Academic success is now coupled with social media engagement. Social media has become so normalized in the academy that absent a carefully curated social media presence, scholars risk being seen as unscholarly, unproductive, and unpopular. This article lays bare the pressures, mechanisms, and monstrosities of using social media to promote scholarship. We argue that the widespread adoption of social media outpaces critical attention to its ethics …
How parents build a case for autism spectrum disorder during initial assessments
Integral to the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is the initial assessment through which the existence of a ‘problem’ is first ascertained. Despite this, there remains limited research on this early part of the diagnostic pathway. In this article, we utilised conversation analysis to examine relevant issues in relation to the practitioner-family interactions that take place within this initial assessment context. Our findings illustrated tha…
Regulating readers' bodies
In this paper, we report findings from a discourse analysis study of reading instruction in eight primary/elementary school classrooms in the United States. Drawing upon discursive psychology, we specifically examined 96 hours of reading comprehension instruction, with a focus on how teachers talked about the body during the instruction and noted how this gave rise to particular constructions of what it means to be a ‘good’ reader and/or learner.…
Engaging in Performance Ethnography in Research Methods Courses
In this article, we share the process and practice of integrating a performance ethnography, in the form of a written play, into research methods and education courses, as well as methods-based workshops. We begin by briefly sharing some of the ways in which we have come to position this work within our classroom and instructional workshops and point to its possibilities as a pedagogical approach. We then illustrate the process of introducing thi…
Masculinities made visible
We addressed the lack of empirical work leveraging visual materials within the masculinities literature using Instagram photos to understand contemporary masculinity performance. By engaging in a detailed analysis of a social media context, we aimed to reveal some of the current mechanisms by which people are making meaning of the social world in the present-day, bringing to light new ways of identifying how people “do” gender. We used a visually…
Beyond “doing no harm”
A central challenge to addressing what becomes taken-for-granted in method in educational research is socialization into the field. During graduate training, students and their mentors are challenged by unique projects. Here, authors, two early career scholars and a faculty mentor, offer a critical interrogation of socialization experiences related to methods of anonymizing and masking, questions of responsibilities to varying publics, and the go…
Building a case for accessing service provision in child and adolescent mental health assessments
In everyday conversations, people put forward versions of events and provide supporting evidence to build a credible case. In environments where there are potentially competing versions, case-building may take a more systematic format. Specifically, we conducted a rhetorical analysis to consider how in child mental health settings, families work to present a credible ‘doctorable’ reason for attendance. Data consisted of video-recordings of 28 fam…
That teacher takes everything badly”
While some scholars have emphasized the culturally contingent nature of disabilities, far less research has attended to the situated and discursive contexts within which those with disabilities and their communities make relevant their own understandings and representations of disability. Drawing from a larger ethnographic study, in this article we report findings generated from the analysis of audio and video data from therapy sessions and waiti…
Discourse of segregation and inclusion
In Russia, children with disabilities have limited access to inclusive education. This article presents the findings of a discourse analysis of 32 newspaper articles focused on the education of children with disabilities, all of which appeared in a Russian newspaper for teachers. We identified two discursive patterns about the education of children with disabilities: preserving a special approach and removing barriers. These patterns highlighted …
[The Impact of Higher Energy Prices in Canada]
Gregory V. Jump, Harry Baumann, Russell Irvine, Bertrand Paquet, Don Drummond, Patrick Grady, M. C. McCracken, W. D. Jarvis, John Lester, P. Muller, W. R. White, [The Impact of Higher Energy Prices in Canada]: Comments, Canadian Public Policy / Analyse de Politiques, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Winter, 1981), pp. 35-65
Testicular dysgenesis syndrome and the estrogen hypothesis
Male reproductive tract abnormalities such as hypospadias and cryptorchidism, and testicular cancer have been proposed to comprise a common syndrome together with impaired spermatogenesis with a common etiology resulting from the disruption of gonadal development during fetal life, the testicular dysgenesis syndrome (TDS). The only quantitative summary estimate of the link between prenatal exposure to estrogenic agents and testicular cancer was p…
Talking Back to Scripted Curricula
Although research shows the importance of the teacher in effective instruction, there has historically been an underrepresentation of teachers' voice in curricular decision-making. Some recent comprehensive reform programs include the use of mandated scripted curricula, which the authors argue often serve to further silence teachers, constraining their capacity to independently act within the classroom. The authors' research seeks to speak back t…
Accountability and public displays of knowing in an undergraduate computer-mediated communication context
A great deal of research has examined computer-mediated communication discussions in educational environments for evidence of learning. These studies have often been disappointing, with analysts not finding the kinds of ‘quality’ talk that they had hoped for. In this study we draw upon elements of discursive psychology as we oriented to what was happening in the talk from the participants’ perspective in addition to what should be happening from …
Discourse of segregation and inclusion
In Russia, children with disabilities have limited access to inclusive education. This article presents the findings of a discourse analysis of 32 newspaper articles focused on the education of children with disabilities, all of which appeared in a Russian newspaper for teachers. We identified two discursive patterns about the education of children with disabilities: preserving a special approach and removing barriers. These patterns highlighted …
Performative acts of autism
Relatively little research has aimed to understand autism from an emic perspective. The majority of studies examining the organization of the talk of individuals with autism presume that autism organizes discourse rather than examine ways in which talk itself constructs the notion of autism. This study explored the meanings of autism performed in and through the talk of the parents of children with autism and their therapists. Drawing from a larg…
Making learning ordinary
We report findings from a discourse analysis study situated within a discursive psychology framework that examined how undergraduate nutrition science students took up a computer-mediated communication task in which they were asked to write about what they learned after attending a lecture. Students made learning displays by orienting to the lecture as a news receipt and making assessments of this new information in variable ways. Some did this b…
Community Performances and Performative Texts as Tools for Critical Exploration
In this article, the authors present the process and experience of sharing research findings in the format of a participatory community performance. This community performance, presented in the format of a performative text, was drawn from a qualitative interview study that examined the experiences of parents, students, teachers, psychologists and teacher educators in special education meetings in the USA. The authors highlight the ways in which …
That teacher takes everything badly”
While some scholars have emphasized the culturally contingent nature of disabilities, far less research has attended to the situated and discursive contexts within which those with disabilities and their communities make relevant their own understandings and representations of disability. Drawing from a larger ethnographic study, in this article we report findings generated from the analysis of audio and video data from therapy sessions and waiti…
Conclusion to Higher Education's Role in Public School Reform and Community Engagement
Picture this: In a southern, midsize, politically conservative city, the county commissioner convened a meeting to discuss the budget priorities for the upcoming year. The county commission, mayor
Introduction to Higher Education's Role in Public School Reform and Community Engagement
Constructing Hopes and Fears Around Technology
Graduate students often receive their first training in qualitative methods during an introductory course. The textbook that is chosen often sets the tone for how qualitative research is understood. We conducted a discourse analysis of the ways in which 11 introductory qualitative methods texts took up the relationship between technology and qualitative research. One text included virtually no mention of technology use; five discussed technology …
Negotiating abnormality/normality in therapy talk
Discursive psychology
Microanalysis Of Online Data
"Naming and Un-Naming a Research Study "Participatory
In this article, we explore our own discomfort with naming our research studies participatory action research – at least during the initial stages of our work – and highlight several practices that we believe serve to create greater researcher reflexivity. Drawing upon two different research studies, we share three “lessons from practice” generated from an analysis of our fieldnotes and a series of interactive interviews. The lessons illustrate h…
The discursive construction of intelligence in introductory educational psychology textbooks
The meaning(s) of intelligence has varied across time and place, with these varied constructions holding consequences for people and society at large. There is, however, little consensus around what intelligence actually means and how the construct should be applied. Educational discourses, including textbooks used to train teachers, have commonly been the site for the dissemination of ‘authoritative’ information surrounding intelligence. In this…
Atlas.ti for conversation and discourse analysis studies
The use of computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) has not been without controversy, with a pervasive sense of skepticism and resistance towards its adoption by many scholars. Language-based researchers in particular, such as conversation and discourse analysts, have been slow to embrace such tools for their work. In this paper we illustrate how we have used ATLAS.ti to support our own conversation and discourse analysis wor…
The Ideological Dilemmas Inherent in Informal Learning Spaces
Informal learning spaces, such as summer reading programs, have the potential to both motivate children and provide opportunities for preservice teachers to try out new practices. However, there is little research on the talk that occurs in these informal learning spaces, particularly those intended to function as third spaces. Audio recordings of meetings between preservice teachers and high school students talking together about young adult lit…
Lessons from interdisciplinary qualitative research
In this article, we consider the everyday practices and methodological and theoretical tensions of interdisciplinary, qualitative work. In particular, we discuss the varied interpretations of focus group data from Burundian men and women with refugee status and explore the consequences of representations that result in deficit-based understandings. We highlight how through our research process we learned that following participants, rather than l…
Is Evidence-Based Practice a Threat to the Progress of the Qualitative Community? Arguments From the Bottom of the Pyramid
Although scholars have gone to great lengths to illustrate the value of qualitative research and ensure that it is well represented in all areas of academic life, there remains a gap of equality when compared with quantitative research, which is still viewed by many as superior, specifically in applied fields such as health. This has become particularly true as the evidence-based movement has continued to find its way into discussions around the …
Applying conversation analysis methods to online talk
Graduate Students’ Construction of Researcher Identities Explored Through Discourse Analysis
While many research methods courses challenge students to make sense of their own researcher identities as they relate to research paradigms and perspectives, there is a lack of research that examines how students actually go about constructing theses identities, particularly at the level of discourse. In this study, we attended to graduate students’ talk in an introductory research methods course, taking note of how students used particular disc…
Engaging in Performance Ethnography in Research Methods Courses
In this article, we share the process and practice of integrating a performance ethnography, in the form of a written play, into research methods and education courses, as well as methods-based workshops. We begin by briefly sharing some of the ways in which we have come to position this work within our classroom and instructional workshops and point to its possibilities as a pedagogical approach. We then illustrate the process of introducing thi…
How parents build a case for autism spectrum disorder during initial assessments
Integral to the diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder is the initial assessment through which the existence of a ‘problem’ is first ascertained. Despite this, there remains limited research on this early part of the diagnostic pathway. In this article, we utilised conversation analysis to examine relevant issues in relation to the practitioner-family interactions that take place within this initial assessment context. Our findings illustrated tha…
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