Responsible Methodologist

Winner of The University of Alabama 2017 President’s Faculty Research AwardWhat does it mean to be a responsible methodologist? Certainly it is more than being a research middle-manager who ensures that the tools used in a thesis or dissertation are of the right gauge. In The Responsible Methodologist leading education scholar Aaron Kuntz uses the latest movements in social theory to challenge qualitative researchers to reconceptualize their work away from the technocratic toward an intervention an ethical disruption of the norm an activist stance toward progressive social change. Inviting creativity and vision he insists that the responsible methodologist become a force leading the discourse toward social justice. His book-challenges the technocratic role given to qualitative methodologists in university settings;-urges them to become a force for change through Foucault’s parrhesia risky truth-telling;-includes research projects that have incorporated this vision.amkuntz.people.ua.edu/