Melissa Freeman
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 3887638 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Melissa Freeman |
| PRENOMES | Melissa |
| SOBRENOME | Freeman |
| ASSINATURA | FREEMAN M |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Georgia |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-5713-8110 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 29 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 207 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 29 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2000 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
The Evidence of the Beautiful
Education is an experience marked by time. As a human endeavor, it is framed by the finitude that characterizes life and the time individuals and communities devote to it. In this theoretical article, we turn to Gadamer’s hermeneutic notion of the beautiful as an event of understanding that is both shaped by time and timeless to deconstruct how education, its evidence, and its measurement are interpreted and enacted. Gadamer argues that understan…
Constituting Phenomena Through Intra-Action and Intentionality
For those interested in infusing posthumanist theories in qualitative research, the use of the term “phenomena” within the long-standing tradition of phenomenology and Barad’s agential realism creates a tricky linguistic tangle. Barad is adamant that any association with phenomenology is unwanted, yet the particulars of how agential realist phenomena and phenomenological phenomena are different can be difficult to parse. In this piece, we seek to…
Interstitial Ruptures
In French, décollage refers to acts of ungluing, unpeeling, or dissolving an image. As an artform, images are torn off, or left to disintegrate, revealing the arbitrariness of the materials that have built society, while also bearing witness to time, impermanence, decay, and waste. In another sense of the word, décollage means to take off, to ascend. Working across both senses, this article considers how revolutionary artforms, such as décollage,…
“Darn It, This Pen Leaks! But Wasn’t It a Pretty Design?” Tracing Contours of the Aesthetic in One Young Woman’s Letters Home From Camp
Everyday aesthetics offers a way to disclose the complexity of a seemingly routine activity like doing the dishes. In this article, I consider the aesthetic allure of one 15-year-old’s letters home from camp preserved in a university’s archives. By returning aesthetics to experience, philosophical hermeneutics restores the experience of understanding to its multi-sensuous materialization. When things speak to us and we in turn respond to them, we…
Children’s Creations and Archiving Practices
This introduction provides a context for the collection of essays that follow in this special issue on research methodology related to studying children’s creations in archives. First, we center children’s creations as significant sources for interdisciplinary researchers interested in learning more about children’s contributions to history, the historical record, and childhood studies. We then describe some of the politics and practices—includin…
Reading, rhetoric, rhythm
This paper considers reading a hermeneutical co-respondence with understanding's becoming. It describes how understanding's plurality is caught up in the dialogical interplay of reading, rhetoric, and rhythm characteristic of hermeneutic engagement. Reading positions a reader in relationship with a textFootnote1 seeking participation in the matter under consideration. As such, its potential for creating new understanding lies in a reader's abilit…
The borders of theory
This article considers the ontology of theory as a shaping phenomenon in qualitative research by opening up its intersection with artistic dimensions of knowing and knowledge. We argue that the plurality of practices and perspectives for research hinges on what theory is understood to be. Thus, rather than approaching theory as something predefined, we draw on conceptualizations of the experience of art to articulate the being of theory as an aes…
The Aura of the Trace in One Child’s Projects in the World
Using one child’s archival collection, found in the Prospect Archive of Children’s Work at the University of Vermont, we consider the methodological complications involved in attempting to analyze material traces of childhood, created by the child. The experimental school where these artworks were originally completed practiced methods of deep observation and descriptive review of materials collected, rather than sending children’s work home. We …
Five Threats to Phenomenology’s Distinctiveness
Phenomenology is a distinct philosophical approach that attends to the ways our experiencing bodies participate in the constitution of meaning. Its description, however, in qualitative research texts is often reduced to its association with first-person accounts of lived experience in ways that mislead and threaten its distinctive contributions as a research approach. By examining five common misperceptions in more detail, I demonstrate phenomeno…
Being Culturally Responsive in a Formative Evaluation of a Professional Development School
While evaluators have explored the implementation of culturally responsive evaluation (CRE), the failures of applying CRE are less often told. In this article, we use a reflective case narrative to explore our successes and failures in implementing our CRE approach, including an educative stance. We draw on a formative evaluation of a district–university partnership during its first year. Our analysis of the reflective case narrative makes transp…
Perturbing Anticipation
Process ontologies focus on the constitutive activity of becoming-other and describe the movement of hermeneutic understanding as it performs its mode of being anew. Inherent to this process is the work of effective-history, which denotes our condition as historical beings and the effects history has on our being, doing, and understanding. In this article, I argue that philosophical hermeneutics provides a mode of participation that supports qual…
So You Want to Do Post-Intentional Phenomenological Research
In this article, phenomenology, both in its philosophical and methodological variants, is introduced in the form of a fictional dialogue between a student justifying her interest in using a post-intentional phenomenological approach in her dissertation to her major professor. The dialogue tackles founding philosophers, notably Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty; contemporary researchers, including A. Giorgi, B. Giorgi, van Manen, and Vagle; se…
The analytic rewards of materializing the effects of actor-networks
Objects, documents, and concepts play a central role in everyday practice but are often overlooked as active agents in the formation of the social world. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is a sociological method that helps make visible what humans and nonhumans in association do or accomplish. It is an analytical approach that examines how human and nonhuman entities co-construct dynamic and influential networks of associations, and the effects produce…
Shadowing in Formative Evaluation
Shadowing is a data collection method that involves following a person, as they carry out those everyday activities relevant to a research study. This article explores the use of shadowing in a formative evaluation of a professional development school (PDS). Specifically, this article discusses how shadowing was used to understand the role of a professor-in-residence (PIR) working with a PDS, and how this role facilitates capacity building at the…
I'd Rather Dance Outside
Research has shown that youth with low levels of fitness or little interest in organized sports and traditional physical education are more likely to participate in noncompetitive outdoor physical activity. However, little is known about what influences youths’ decisions to participate in these activities. This study examined rural young adolescents’ experiences of participating in noncompetitive outdoor physical activity. In depth qualitative in…
The Hermeneutical Aesthetics of Thick Description
Thick description is often invoked by qualitative researchers as a form of representation after analysis such as coding has been completed. I argue that thick description can be more productively considered as an aesthetic encounter guiding the research process from beginning to end. Drawing on the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, I demonstrate that thick description is more than an analytical consideration of context but is rath…
Grafting the Intentional Relation of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Linguisticality
This article seeks to reposition two philosophies central to qualitative research: hermeneutics and phenomenology from their current location in the interpretive traditions to one closer to the critical and radical traditions we believe are more congruent. We hope to show that these philosophies are most productive for qualitative research when considered as "grafted," such as in Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics. By deepening two o…
The Complexity of Practice
All social and professional practices are historically situated, evolving forms of acting and interacting. Evaluation, as a practice, is shaped by and shapes the practice evaluated. This article contributes to responsive and values-engaged evaluation approaches by reflecting on the space where these two practices intersect. The evaluative task was to document the nature of a partnership between a university and school district and how that partne…
Validity in Dialogic Encounters With Hermeneutic Truths
Hermeneutic theories of interpretation are at the core of qualitative methodologies and can be identified as belonging to either epistemological or ontological philosophical orientations. Concerns about validity in qualitative research have mainly been shaped by epistemological questions. What differentiates philosophical hermeneutics, an ontological perspective, from traditional hermeneutics is its radical departure from finding a "technique" of…
Pedagogical ethical dilemmas in a responsive evaluation of a leadership program for youth
How do responsive evaluators provide input to program planners when competing ethical principles point to different choices of effective feedback? A team of three evaluators used participant observation, individual and focus group interviews, and analysis of documents to provide input on the development and outcome of a summer program for high school youth. The goal of the program was to prepare diverse young people for the democratic promotion o…
Knowledge is acting’
Positioning theory provides a lens through which to view the narrative accounts of working‐class parents as dynamic, intentional acts of positioning intended to gain the recognition of school personnel as full partners in the education of their children. Knowing that school personnel will not treat them with the kind of respect given middle‐class parents, but refusing to allow themselves to be viewed as if they were lower‐class parents, analysis …
Researching Children's Experiences
Part 1. Conceptions of Children and Childhood. Historical Perspectives of Childhood. Theories of Socialization. New Studies of Childhood. Part 2. Negotiating Access for Research with Children. The Regulation of Research in the Social Sciences. Navigating Institutional Review Boards. Part 3. Recruiting Child Participants. Strategies for Obtaining Parental Permission. Getting Kids to Participate After You Are In. Confidentiality. Part 4. Defining R…
Standards of Evidence in Qualitative Research
In a climate of increased accountability, standardization, federal control, and politicization of education research and scholarship, this article briefly reviews various positions outlined by qualitative researchers about quality in qualitative inquiry, showing how these are implicated in the acquisition, conceptualization, and use of qualitative evidence. It concludes by identifying issues in and challenges to setting standards of evidence for …
Performing the Event of Understanding in Hermeneutic Conversations With Narrative Texts
The purpose of this article is to understand and explore the transformational potential of engaging with narrative texts in the context of research interviewing. Drawing from the hermeneutic philosophies of Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, the process of understanding is described and framed within a specific kind of dialogue with the world: the hermeneutical. What this kind of dialogue might look like in practice is explored using examples of pa…
Performing Parent Dialogues on High-Stakes Testing
Assessment-driven accountability has altered the way schools deliver their services to children, and their relations with parents. Listening to how parents talk about their experiences with testing fosters an understanding of the discursive power found in the state's accountability rhetoric about learning, achievement, and assessment and how this discourse is accepted or rejected by parents. Focus groups with parents were conducted as part of a n…
Standards of Evidence in Qualitative Research
In a climate of increased accountability, standardization, federal control, and politicization of education research and scholarship, this article briefly reviews various positions outlined by qualitative researchers about quality in qualitative inquiry, showing how these are implicated in the acquisition, conceptualization, and use of qualitative evidence. It concludes by identifying issues in and challenges to setting standards of evidence for …
The Hermeneutical Aesthetics of Thick Description
Thick description is often invoked by qualitative researchers as a form of representation after analysis such as coding has been completed. I argue that thick description can be more productively considered as an aesthetic encounter guiding the research process from beginning to end. Drawing on the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, I demonstrate that thick description is more than an analytical consideration of context but is rath…
Validity in Dialogic Encounters With Hermeneutic Truths
Hermeneutic theories of interpretation are at the core of qualitative methodologies and can be identified as belonging to either epistemological or ontological philosophical orientations. Concerns about validity in qualitative research have mainly been shaped by epistemological questions. What differentiates philosophical hermeneutics, an ontological perspective, from traditional hermeneutics is its radical departure from finding a "technique" of…
Grafting the Intentional Relation of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Linguisticality
This article seeks to reposition two philosophies central to qualitative research: hermeneutics and phenomenology from their current location in the interpretive traditions to one closer to the critical and radical traditions we believe are more congruent. We hope to show that these philosophies are most productive for qualitative research when considered as "grafted," such as in Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics. By deepening two o…
Nurturing Dialogic Hermeneutics and the Deliberative Capacities of Communities in Focus Groups
Dialogue is a central feature of focus groups. It is also a primary component of philosophical hermeneutic theories of understanding. Using a focus group with parents on the topic of state standardized testing in New York State, the author explores the process of creating focus group settings that nurture their relational and hermeneutic qualities and actively engage participants in the coconstruction of meaning and understanding. Central to this…
Knocking on Doors
This reflective piece employs a layered text format and uses data from a pilot study on parents' conceptualizations of parental involvement in schools to think theoretically about such issues as access, voice, and representation in interpretive research. As the researcher engages with the process of selecting participants for her research, a different kind of understanding of cultural access emerges. Access is eventually understood as not being s…
Between Eye and Eye Stretches an Interminable Landscape
While conducting phenomenological interviews on the experience of being a parent with children in school, the author comes to a deeper, more personal understanding of the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics. How people use language-the form, content, and context of the words they use, whether in their interviews, analytic memos, or theoretical writings-is crucial to how they understand. As such, language is always communicative, relational, i…
Knowledge is acting’
Positioning theory provides a lens through which to view the narrative accounts of working‐class parents as dynamic, intentional acts of positioning intended to gain the recognition of school personnel as full partners in the education of their children. Knowing that school personnel will not treat them with the kind of respect given middle‐class parents, but refusing to allow themselves to be viewed as if they were lower‐class parents, analysis …
Performing the Event of Understanding in Hermeneutic Conversations With Narrative Texts
The purpose of this article is to understand and explore the transformational potential of engaging with narrative texts in the context of research interviewing. Drawing from the hermeneutic philosophies of Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, the process of understanding is described and framed within a specific kind of dialogue with the world: the hermeneutical. What this kind of dialogue might look like in practice is explored using examples of pa…
Being Culturally Responsive in a Formative Evaluation of a Professional Development School
While evaluators have explored the implementation of culturally responsive evaluation (CRE), the failures of applying CRE are less often told. In this article, we use a reflective case narrative to explore our successes and failures in implementing our CRE approach, including an educative stance. We draw on a formative evaluation of a district–university partnership during its first year. Our analysis of the reflective case narrative makes transp…
Toward a Rearticulation of a Discourse on Class within the Practice of Parental Involvement
Class is essentially a person's social position in relation to others within a cultural context. This article examines two representational approaches used in a study of parents' perceptions of parental involvement to discuss the critical role representation plays in the production and reproduction of current discourses on class. Although these approaches both use the parents' stories to engage the reader, one combines these into group-oriented "…
The borders of theory
This article considers the ontology of theory as a shaping phenomenon in qualitative research by opening up its intersection with artistic dimensions of knowing and knowledge. We argue that the plurality of practices and perspectives for research hinges on what theory is understood to be. Thus, rather than approaching theory as something predefined, we draw on conceptualizations of the experience of art to articulate the being of theory as an aes…
Perturbing Anticipation
Process ontologies focus on the constitutive activity of becoming-other and describe the movement of hermeneutic understanding as it performs its mode of being anew. Inherent to this process is the work of effective-history, which denotes our condition as historical beings and the effects history has on our being, doing, and understanding. In this article, I argue that philosophical hermeneutics provides a mode of participation that supports qual…
The analytic rewards of materializing the effects of actor-networks
Objects, documents, and concepts play a central role in everyday practice but are often overlooked as active agents in the formation of the social world. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is a sociological method that helps make visible what humans and nonhumans in association do or accomplish. It is an analytical approach that examines how human and nonhuman entities co-construct dynamic and influential networks of associations, and the effects produce…
The Complexity of Practice
All social and professional practices are historically situated, evolving forms of acting and interacting. Evaluation, as a practice, is shaped by and shapes the practice evaluated. This article contributes to responsive and values-engaged evaluation approaches by reflecting on the space where these two practices intersect. The evaluative task was to document the nature of a partnership between a university and school district and how that partne…
So You Want to Do Post-Intentional Phenomenological Research
In this article, phenomenology, both in its philosophical and methodological variants, is introduced in the form of a fictional dialogue between a student justifying her interest in using a post-intentional phenomenological approach in her dissertation to her major professor. The dialogue tackles founding philosophers, notably Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty; contemporary researchers, including A. Giorgi, B. Giorgi, van Manen, and Vagle; se…
Shadowing in Formative Evaluation
Shadowing is a data collection method that involves following a person, as they carry out those everyday activities relevant to a research study. This article explores the use of shadowing in a formative evaluation of a professional development school (PDS). Specifically, this article discusses how shadowing was used to understand the role of a professor-in-residence (PIR) working with a PDS, and how this role facilitates capacity building at the…
Pedagogical ethical dilemmas in a responsive evaluation of a leadership program for youth
How do responsive evaluators provide input to program planners when competing ethical principles point to different choices of effective feedback? A team of three evaluators used participant observation, individual and focus group interviews, and analysis of documents to provide input on the development and outcome of a summer program for high school youth. The goal of the program was to prepare diverse young people for the democratic promotion o…
Performing Parent Dialogues on High-Stakes Testing
Assessment-driven accountability has altered the way schools deliver their services to children, and their relations with parents. Listening to how parents talk about their experiences with testing fosters an understanding of the discursive power found in the state's accountability rhetoric about learning, achievement, and assessment and how this discourse is accepted or rejected by parents. Focus groups with parents were conducted as part of a n…
Knocking on Doors
This reflective piece employs a layered text format and uses data from a pilot study on parents' conceptualizations of parental involvement in schools to think theoretically about such issues as access, voice, and representation in interpretive research. As the researcher engages with the process of selecting participants for her research, a different kind of understanding of cultural access emerges. Access is eventually understood as not being s…
Between Eye and Eye Stretches an Interminable Landscape
While conducting phenomenological interviews on the experience of being a parent with children in school, the author comes to a deeper, more personal understanding of the tradition of philosophical hermeneutics. How people use language-the form, content, and context of the words they use, whether in their interviews, analytic memos, or theoretical writings-is crucial to how they understand. As such, language is always communicative, relational, i…
Toward a Rearticulation of a Discourse on Class within the Practice of Parental Involvement
Class is essentially a person's social position in relation to others within a cultural context. This article examines two representational approaches used in a study of parents' perceptions of parental involvement to discuss the critical role representation plays in the production and reproduction of current discourses on class. Although these approaches both use the parents' stories to engage the reader, one combines these into group-oriented "…
Performing Parent Dialogues on High-Stakes Testing
Assessment-driven accountability has altered the way schools deliver their services to children, and their relations with parents. Listening to how parents talk about their experiences with testing fosters an understanding of the discursive power found in the state's accountability rhetoric about learning, achievement, and assessment and how this discourse is accepted or rejected by parents. Focus groups with parents were conducted as part of a n…
Nurturing Dialogic Hermeneutics and the Deliberative Capacities of Communities in Focus Groups
Dialogue is a central feature of focus groups. It is also a primary component of philosophical hermeneutic theories of understanding. Using a focus group with parents on the topic of state standardized testing in New York State, the author explores the process of creating focus group settings that nurture their relational and hermeneutic qualities and actively engage participants in the coconstruction of meaning and understanding. Central to this…
Standards of Evidence in Qualitative Research
In a climate of increased accountability, standardization, federal control, and politicization of education research and scholarship, this article briefly reviews various positions outlined by qualitative researchers about quality in qualitative inquiry, showing how these are implicated in the acquisition, conceptualization, and use of qualitative evidence. It concludes by identifying issues in and challenges to setting standards of evidence for …
Performing the Event of Understanding in Hermeneutic Conversations With Narrative Texts
The purpose of this article is to understand and explore the transformational potential of engaging with narrative texts in the context of research interviewing. Drawing from the hermeneutic philosophies of Heidegger, Gadamer, and Ricoeur, the process of understanding is described and framed within a specific kind of dialogue with the world: the hermeneutical. What this kind of dialogue might look like in practice is explored using examples of pa…
Researching Children's Experiences
Part 1. Conceptions of Children and Childhood. Historical Perspectives of Childhood. Theories of Socialization. New Studies of Childhood. Part 2. Negotiating Access for Research with Children. The Regulation of Research in the Social Sciences. Navigating Institutional Review Boards. Part 3. Recruiting Child Participants. Strategies for Obtaining Parental Permission. Getting Kids to Participate After You Are In. Confidentiality. Part 4. Defining R…
Knowledge is acting’
Positioning theory provides a lens through which to view the narrative accounts of working‐class parents as dynamic, intentional acts of positioning intended to gain the recognition of school personnel as full partners in the education of their children. Knowing that school personnel will not treat them with the kind of respect given middle‐class parents, but refusing to allow themselves to be viewed as if they were lower‐class parents, analysis …
Pedagogical ethical dilemmas in a responsive evaluation of a leadership program for youth
How do responsive evaluators provide input to program planners when competing ethical principles point to different choices of effective feedback? A team of three evaluators used participant observation, individual and focus group interviews, and analysis of documents to provide input on the development and outcome of a summer program for high school youth. The goal of the program was to prepare diverse young people for the democratic promotion o…
Validity in Dialogic Encounters With Hermeneutic Truths
Hermeneutic theories of interpretation are at the core of qualitative methodologies and can be identified as belonging to either epistemological or ontological philosophical orientations. Concerns about validity in qualitative research have mainly been shaped by epistemological questions. What differentiates philosophical hermeneutics, an ontological perspective, from traditional hermeneutics is its radical departure from finding a "technique" of…
The Complexity of Practice
All social and professional practices are historically situated, evolving forms of acting and interacting. Evaluation, as a practice, is shaped by and shapes the practice evaluated. This article contributes to responsive and values-engaged evaluation approaches by reflecting on the space where these two practices intersect. The evaluative task was to document the nature of a partnership between a university and school district and how that partne…
Grafting the Intentional Relation of Hermeneutics and Phenomenology in Linguisticality
This article seeks to reposition two philosophies central to qualitative research: hermeneutics and phenomenology from their current location in the interpretive traditions to one closer to the critical and radical traditions we believe are more congruent. We hope to show that these philosophies are most productive for qualitative research when considered as "grafted," such as in Hans-Georg Gadamer's philosophical hermeneutics. By deepening two o…
Shadowing in Formative Evaluation
Shadowing is a data collection method that involves following a person, as they carry out those everyday activities relevant to a research study. This article explores the use of shadowing in a formative evaluation of a professional development school (PDS). Specifically, this article discusses how shadowing was used to understand the role of a professor-in-residence (PIR) working with a PDS, and how this role facilitates capacity building at the…
I'd Rather Dance Outside
Research has shown that youth with low levels of fitness or little interest in organized sports and traditional physical education are more likely to participate in noncompetitive outdoor physical activity. However, little is known about what influences youths’ decisions to participate in these activities. This study examined rural young adolescents’ experiences of participating in noncompetitive outdoor physical activity. In depth qualitative in…
The Hermeneutical Aesthetics of Thick Description
Thick description is often invoked by qualitative researchers as a form of representation after analysis such as coding has been completed. I argue that thick description can be more productively considered as an aesthetic encounter guiding the research process from beginning to end. Drawing on the philosophical hermeneutics of Hans-Georg Gadamer, I demonstrate that thick description is more than an analytical consideration of context but is rath…
So You Want to Do Post-Intentional Phenomenological Research
In this article, phenomenology, both in its philosophical and methodological variants, is introduced in the form of a fictional dialogue between a student justifying her interest in using a post-intentional phenomenological approach in her dissertation to her major professor. The dialogue tackles founding philosophers, notably Husserl, Heidegger, and Merleau-Ponty; contemporary researchers, including A. Giorgi, B. Giorgi, van Manen, and Vagle; se…
The analytic rewards of materializing the effects of actor-networks
Objects, documents, and concepts play a central role in everyday practice but are often overlooked as active agents in the formation of the social world. Actor-Network Theory (ANT) is a sociological method that helps make visible what humans and nonhumans in association do or accomplish. It is an analytical approach that examines how human and nonhuman entities co-construct dynamic and influential networks of associations, and the effects produce…
Five Threats to Phenomenology’s Distinctiveness
Phenomenology is a distinct philosophical approach that attends to the ways our experiencing bodies participate in the constitution of meaning. Its description, however, in qualitative research texts is often reduced to its association with first-person accounts of lived experience in ways that mislead and threaten its distinctive contributions as a research approach. By examining five common misperceptions in more detail, I demonstrate phenomeno…
Being Culturally Responsive in a Formative Evaluation of a Professional Development School
While evaluators have explored the implementation of culturally responsive evaluation (CRE), the failures of applying CRE are less often told. In this article, we use a reflective case narrative to explore our successes and failures in implementing our CRE approach, including an educative stance. We draw on a formative evaluation of a district–university partnership during its first year. Our analysis of the reflective case narrative makes transp…
Perturbing Anticipation
Process ontologies focus on the constitutive activity of becoming-other and describe the movement of hermeneutic understanding as it performs its mode of being anew. Inherent to this process is the work of effective-history, which denotes our condition as historical beings and the effects history has on our being, doing, and understanding. In this article, I argue that philosophical hermeneutics provides a mode of participation that supports qual…
The Aura of the Trace in One Child’s Projects in the World
Using one child’s archival collection, found in the Prospect Archive of Children’s Work at the University of Vermont, we consider the methodological complications involved in attempting to analyze material traces of childhood, created by the child. The experimental school where these artworks were originally completed practiced methods of deep observation and descriptive review of materials collected, rather than sending children’s work home. We …
The borders of theory
This article considers the ontology of theory as a shaping phenomenon in qualitative research by opening up its intersection with artistic dimensions of knowing and knowledge. We argue that the plurality of practices and perspectives for research hinges on what theory is understood to be. Thus, rather than approaching theory as something predefined, we draw on conceptualizations of the experience of art to articulate the being of theory as an aes…
“Darn It, This Pen Leaks! But Wasn’t It a Pretty Design?” Tracing Contours of the Aesthetic in One Young Woman’s Letters Home From Camp
Everyday aesthetics offers a way to disclose the complexity of a seemingly routine activity like doing the dishes. In this article, I consider the aesthetic allure of one 15-year-old’s letters home from camp preserved in a university’s archives. By returning aesthetics to experience, philosophical hermeneutics restores the experience of understanding to its multi-sensuous materialization. When things speak to us and we in turn respond to them, we…
Children’s Creations and Archiving Practices
This introduction provides a context for the collection of essays that follow in this special issue on research methodology related to studying children’s creations in archives. First, we center children’s creations as significant sources for interdisciplinary researchers interested in learning more about children’s contributions to history, the historical record, and childhood studies. We then describe some of the politics and practices—includin…
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