Care-Based Methodologies: Reimagining Qualitative Research with Youth in US Schools

This book is an edited volume that my colleagues and I have edited. There are 15 chapters in the volume, not including the foreward, introduction, and conclusion. We are in press with the academic division of Bloomsbury Press. The focus of the book is as follows: Critical care-based research methodologies recognize the youth who participate in research not as subjects, but as people first -- whose full selves must be considered, taken seriously, and prioritized at each stage of the research process. Care-based research involves offering close attention to youth, treating youth with consideration, regard, and affection, responding to their needs in the moment, and honoring their humanity. In doing so, school-based researchers can conduct rigorous and responsible research that simultaneously improves our understanding of youth’s lives, cares for their wellbeing, and works toward dismantling the systems that oppress them.