Promiscuous Feminist Methodologies in Education: Engaging Research Beyond Gender

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Sara M. Childers Ph. D. is an independent scholar currently residing in Dublin Ohio USA. She received her doctorate in Social and Cultural Foundations of Education from Ohio State University USA. Her research utilizes qualitative methodologies including ethnography sociocultural policy analysis and critical race feminist and post-structural theories. Her current project looks at how teachers in an underpriviledged elementary school in the south define what counts as data and how they use it to make instructional decisions in the classroom. In 2010 she completed an ethnographic case study of a high achieving high poverty high school in the Midwest to understand both the successful policy negotiations by students parents and teachers as well as how racial inequality effected these negotiations.Jeong-eun Rhee is an associate professor in the College of Education Information and Technology at Long Island University Post NY USA. Her scholarly interests include decolonizing research methodologies postcolonial inquiry in education and issues of subjectivity identity and knowledge. She is currently working on a project that examines changing meanings and operations of race and racism vis-à-vis neoliberalism which she calls the neoliberal racial project.Stephanie L. Daza is a fellow at the Education and Social Research Institute Manchester Metropolitan University Manchester UK. She is a research methodologist and critical ethnographer interested in empirical and theoretical inquiry of boundaries cross-cultural cross-disciplinary local-global and PK-20. With an emphasis on difference and in/equity in education and society her research examines institutions policies and practices. Her in progress book on grant-science and STEM culture reflects six years of research on two National Science Foundation grants. Her new project explores digital affective technologies (DAT) as social science methodologies for a digital age of big data.