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The Importance of Inclusivity in Pursuing Social Justice revealed through HyperRESEARCH
In his paper "Slogging and Stumbling Toward Social Justice in a Private Elementary School: The Complicated Case of St. Malachy" appearing in Education and Urban Society, Vol. 42, No. 5, pp 572-598 (July 2010), author Martin Scanlan of Marquette University used HyperRESEARCH to reveal the myrad of factors affecting one school's efforts at inclusivity as one component towards a broader effort of social justice.
From the Abstract: "This case study examines St. Malachy, an urban Catholic elementary school primarily serving children traditionally marginalized by race, class, linguistic heritage, and disability. As a private school, St. Malachy serves the public good by recruiting and retaining such traditionally marginalized students. As empirical studies involving Catholic schools frequently juxtapose them with public schools, the author presents this examination from a different tack. Neither vilifying nor glorifying Catholic schooling, this study critically examines the pursuit of social justice in this school context. Data gathered through a 1-year study show that formal and informal leaders in St. Malachy adapted their governance, aggressively sought community resources, and focused their professional development to build the capacity to serve their increasingly pluralistic student population. The analysis confirms the deepening realization that striving toward social justice is a messy, contradictory, and complicated pursuit, and that schools in both public and private sectors are allies in this pursuit."
The full text of the paper is accessible here.
The intersection between race/ethnicity and caring explored using HyperRESEARCH
Rosalie Rolón-Dow of the University of Delaware has published "Critical Care: A Color(full) Analysis of Care Narratives in the Schooling Experiences of Puerto Rican Girls" in the American Educational Research Journal, Vol. 42, No. 1, pp 77-111 (2005). From the Abstract: "In this article, the author explores the intersection between race/ethnicity and caring in the educational experiences of middle school Puerto Rican girls. Critical race theory and Latino/Latina critical theory are used as data analysis frameworks because of their emphasis on the roles of race/ethnicity and racism in shaping the circumstances of individuals and institutions. The author calls for a color(full) critical care praxis that is grounded in a historical understanding of students’ lives; translates race-conscious ideological and political orientations into pedagogical approaches that benefit Latino/a students; uses caring counternarratives to provide more intimate, caring connections between teachers and the Latino communities where they work; and pays attention to caring at both the individual and institutional levels."
The author also notes in this paper that "... Hyperresearch, was helpful in coding the data, generating reports for each data code/theme, and revealing patterns of connectedness between data codes.". The article can be accessed online here.
Children's Perceptions of Literature Circles explored with HyperRESEARCH
Janine Certo (Michigan State University), Kathleen Moxley (Central Michigan University), Kelly Reffitt (Mercer University), and Jeffrey A. Miller (Duquesne University) recently used HyperRESEARCH to better understand children's perceptions of literature circles in their article "I Learned How to Talk About a Book: Children's Perceptions of Literature Circles Across Grade and Ability Levels" published in Literacy Research and Instruction, Vol 49. Issue 3, July 2010 pp 243-263.
Read more: Children's Perceptions of Literature Circles explored with HyperRESEARCH
Sociosexual Identity's Effect on Sexual Health studied with HyperRESEARCH
In Volume 51, Number 3, pp 279-296, May/June 2010 issue of the Journal of College Student Development, J. Michael Wilkerson, Ann K. Brooks, and Michael W. Ross present "Sociosexual Identity Development and Sexual Risk Taking of Acculturating Collegiate Gay and Bisexual Men." The authors explore how the way collegiate gay and bisexual men acquire a sociosexual identity appears to affect their sexual health. Analysis, using HyperRESEARCH from Researchware, of interview data from 25 self-identified collegiate gay or bisexual men resulted in the development of a collective sexual script for men acquiring a sociosexual identity.
The authors observed that "changes in an individual’s acting out of a cultural scenario seemed to occur when resolving intrapsychic conflict arising from new sexual experiences. Persons working with young collegiate gay and bisexual men may find this sexual script helpful when developing sex education programs."
The full article can be found here.
J. Michael Wilkerson's dissertation on the same subject is available in .pdf form here.
HyperRESEARCH used in Ph.D. Dissertation on Pre- and Postnatal Music Education with Early Mother-Child Interaction
In the Digital Archives of the University of Jyväskylä, Kaarina Marjanen's 2009 dissertation presents an interesting qualitative study entitled "The belly-button chord : connections of pre- and postnatal music education with early mother-child interaction."
Through the use of HyperRESEARCH for the qualitative portions of this research, Kaarina show that "a very clear mother-child bond was created as a result of the shared prenatel musical experiences."
Information about the dissertation can be found in the online archives here and the full PDF can be downloaded by clicking here.