Advancing Culturally Responsive Research and Researchers

Advancing Culturally Responsive Research and Researchers: Qualitative, Quantitative, and Mixed Methods encourages  readers to design and engage in methodologies and methods that place  cultural relevancy at the center of inquiry. In doing so, it highlights  the need to uplift voices and needs of people who have been historically  marginalized in the environments that we both inhabit and engage in as  part of knowledge construction.

The scholars whose  work is featured in this volume take up research from different  paradigmatic, ontological, epistemological, axiological, and  methodological approaches – yet, with adherence to centering cultural  responsiveness in all research decisions. Each chapter seeks to extend  understandings of social inequities, methodologies, and/or methods – and  to contribute to meaningful and evolving social change through  innovative and cutting-edge research strategies. While doing this work,  the authors illustrate and highlight the importance of researcher  positions and reflexivity in supporting the expansion of culturally  responsive approaches; they also do so while considering global  sociopolitical conditions of this moment in time. The contributions to  this volume were initially presented at the first biennial Advanced  Methods Institute in 2021. The Institute was hosted by QualLab in The  Ohio State University’s College of Education and Human Ecology and  shared this volume’s thematic focus. 

As a handbook,  the volume can help faculty and advanced researchers with interest in  doing culturally responsive projects to better understand frameworks,  approaches, and considerations for doing so. It includes activities to  support readers in developing said understandings.