scholarly journals Qualitative Inquiry in the Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

The Value of Qualitative Inquiry for Public Policy

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-186 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph A. Maxwell
Keyword(s):  
Public Policy ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Public Policies ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Policy And Practice ◽  
The Public ◽  
Contextual Variability ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Policies And Programs

This article focuses on public policies and programs as a major component of the “public sphere,” and argues that qualitative inquiry can make uniquely valuable contributions to their development and evaluation. These contributions include understanding (a) how people interpret and respond to such policies, (b) contextual variability and its effects on the implementation and consequences of these policies, and (c) the processes through which policies achieve their results. The movement for “evidence-based” policy and practice has largely ignored these issues, but they are critical for developing policies that actually achieve their goals and avoid unintended and damaging consequences.

Entangled1

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 132-135
Author(s):  
Judith C. Lapadat
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
International Congress ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere

At the Thirteenth International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, we gathered as a community to share perspectives on qualitative inquiry in the public sphere in these troubled times and to advance the causes of social justice. “Entangled” is a poetic montage that pieces together powerful words, phrases, and images that I gathered in sessions, in hallways, and on the lawns at ICQI 2017. This composite of fragments reflects the conference as I experienced it.

Making It Relevant: Qualitative Inquiry in the Public Sphere Focusing End-of-Life Care and Migration

2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silke Migala ◽  
Uwe Flick
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Organizational Justice ◽  
End Of Life Care ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
The Public ◽  
Ethical Implications ◽  
Language Problems ◽  
Professional Care ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
And Migration

Qualitative inquiry in the public sphere is discussed with a study concerning intercultural palliative care. For the case of Russian-speaking immigrants in Germany, language problems in care are analyzed as an issue of organizational ethics. Interviews with this target group originally addressing barriers of access to professional care are reanalyzed for the roles of language, limited language skills, and the lack of professional translation in care. The focus is on ethical implications for organizing services and the health care system planned for organizational justice for all groups in a diversifying society. Findings are discussed with Burawoy’s concept of a public sociology.

scholarly journals Hearing and Being Heard, Seeing and Being Seen: Qualitative Inquiry in the Public Sphere—Introduction to the Special Issue

2020 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
pp. 135-141 ◽  
Author(s):  
Uwe Flick
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Qualitative Inquiry ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Target Groups ◽  
Disciplinary Boundaries ◽  
The Public ◽  
Political Discourses ◽  
Societal Relevance ◽  
Research Problems ◽  
The Public Sphere

What means qualitative inquiry in the public sphere? What are public spheres for qualitative inquiry? First, to transgress the disciplinary boundaries of qualitative inquiry. Second, to identify research problems of societal relevance and target groups affected. Third, to make our results accessible for public audiences—how we write about our research and where we publish our findings. Fourth, to face changing political discourses with our research. Public sociology and ethnography are discussed for their relevance for qualitative inquiry in the public sphere. An overview of the contributions and the way this idea is treated in them are given.

The Suffering of the Perpetrators: The Ethics of Traumatic German Historicity in Karen Bass's Young Adult World War II Novels

2014 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-77
Author(s):  
Doris Wolf
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Public Sphere ◽  
Childhood Studies ◽  
Historical Narratives ◽  
World War ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Adult World ◽  
The Public Sphere

This paper examines two young adult novels, Run Like Jäger (2008) and Summer of Fire (2009), by Canadian writer Karen Bass, which centre on the experiences of so-called ordinary German teenagers in World War II. Although guilt and perpetration are themes addressed in these books, their focus is primarily on the ways in which Germans suffered at the hands of the Allied forces. These books thus participate in the increasingly widespread but still controversial subject of the suffering of the perpetrators. Bringing work in childhood studies to bear on contemporary representations of German wartime suffering in the public sphere, I explore how Bass's novels, through the liminal figure of the adolescent, participate in a culture of self-victimisation that downplays guilt rather than more ethically contextualises suffering within guilt. These historical narratives are framed by contemporary narratives which centre on troubled teen protagonists who need the stories of the past for their own individualisation in the present. In their evacuation of crucial historical contexts, both Run Like Jäger and Summer of Fire support optimistic and gendered narratives of individualism that ultimately refuse complicated understandings of adolescent agency in the past or present.

Habermas, Cultural Hegemony, and the Educational Public Sphere

2018 ◽  
Vol 11 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 43-62
Author(s):  
Wisam Kh. Abdul-Jabbar
Keyword(s):  
Public Sphere ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Oral Tradition ◽  
Pedagogical Practices ◽  
Cultural Hegemony ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Public Sphere ◽  
Arabic Speaking

This study explores Habermas’s work in terms of the relevance of his theory of the public sphere to the politics and poetics of the Arab oral tradition and its pedagogical practices. In what ways and forms does Arab heritage inform a public sphere of resistance or dissent? How does Habermas’s notion of the public space help or hinder a better understanding of the Arab oral tradition within the sociopolitical and educational landscape of the Arabic-speaking world? This study also explores the pedagogical implications of teaching Arab orality within the context of the public sphere as a contested site that informs a mode of resistance against social inequality and sociopolitical exclusions.

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