Here is a handout that includes a list of “qualitative research friendly” journals and selected references intended for special education researchers. Thanks to my colleague Loretta Serna for the opportunity to speak to her class!
The Tenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry will take place May 21-24, 2014 at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign .
The theme of this year’s congress is “Qualitative Inquiry and the Politics of Research.” The SIG in Qualitative Psychology will hold events in conjunction with the Congress with a focus on “critical and poststructural possibilities.” [See the conference website for this and other SIG activities and information.]
Early registration: December 1 Regular registration: March 15.
Paper submissions due: December 1 (but check website for possible extension).
The International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) will celebrate its 10th anniversary in 2014. The 10th Congress will be built around the changes that have occurred in the field of qualitative inquiry in the decade since the Congress was launched as an alternative site for collaboration and discourse. The 2014 Congress will offer delegates an opportunity to assess the major changes that have taken place over the last decade. What might the Congress, and indeed the broader landscape of qualitative inquiry, look like in another decade? What should our mandate be for the next decade? What have we learned? Where do we go next?
Delegates are invited to submit proposals for panels and sessions that address these and other pressing questions concerning the politics of research (e.g., IRBs, grant funding, publishing, promotion and tenure, life in the corporate university, etc.). Delegates are also invited to address the events surrounding the 10th anniversary of the Congress itself, its history, and its future.
The 2014 Congress will offer scholars the opportunity to explore a decade of change, while foregrounding qualitative inquiry as a shared, global endeavor. Panels, workshops and sessions will take up the politics of research. Delegates will be able to form coalitions, to engage in debate on how qualitative research can be used to advance the causes of social justice, while addressing racial, ethnic, gender and environmental disparities in education, welfare and healthcare. For more information, visit the ICQI website.
The Qualitative Report — a longstanding, first-rate resource for the qualitative research community — reported that a qualitative research subgroup has formed and gained official status within the Division 5 of the American Psychological Association (APA). I understand that Division 5 membership is available free for the first year. Organizers are encouraging those with interests and expertise in qualitative research to join in order to shape this new, promising development in the field. [You are not required to be an APA member in order to join Division 5, and joining this division does not confer membership in the APA.]
Here are some resources (books and magazine articles) available by way of a quick search of the American Psychological Association (apa.org) website:
Happy hunting! EdProf
Qualitative Research in Education 