Sharon Ravitch
Sharon M. Ravitch is a professor of practice at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education. She engages in numerous applied research projects in India, serving as a visiting scholar at the Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) in Mumbai and working as a co-researcher and key resource expert in policy advocacy, professional development, and community-based participatory research related to corporate social responsibility through TISS’s corporate social responsibility hub.
She is involved in the design and implementation of assessment and evaluation of statewide performance through mixed-methods research in the Ministry of Human Resource Development’s major policy initiative, Rashtriya Uchchatar Shiksha Abhiyan (RUSA), a countrywide reform initiative aimed to resurrect India’s state public university system. Ravitch is also an expert adviser at the Center for Academic Leadership and Education Management at TISS. The center provides professional development and policy advocacy support to school education leaders across India.
Ravitch has published five books: Applied Research for Sustainable Change: A Guide for Education Leaders (with Nicole Carl, 2019); Qualitative Research: Bridging the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological (2nd ed., with Nicole Carl, 2020); Reason and Rigor: How Conceptual Frameworks Guide Research (2012; 2nd ed., with Matthew Riggan, 2016); School Counseling Principles: Diversity and Multiculturalism (2006); and Matters of Interpretation: Reciprocal Transformation in Therapeutic and Developmental Relationships With Youth (with Michael Nakkula, 1998).
Articles by Sharon Ravitch
The rapidly changing nature of organizational life requires that researchers become newly curious about how shifting societal norms and personal conditions shape our research. See this post from Etienne LeGrand and Sharon Ravitch.
Moving from being a practitioner to being a scholar is an adjustment!
Andre Samuels reflects on his experiences as a Black doctoral student and researcher at the University of Pennsylvania.
Researchers studying the experiences of youth can benefit from their perspectives. This post from high school students includes their tips for researchers.
Thinking about studying college students, or partnering with student co-researchers. you will find this post by Ari Burstein.
Considerations in research with underrepresented groups along the bias lines of overrepresentation
Simple tips for making your survey or interview welcoming to all.
Methodspace will offer an eclectic mix of guest contributions in a month-long focus: Be courageous: Studying sensitive, political, or hot-button issues.
10 affirmations for a new semester and a new year.
You’ve read about Critical Race Theory - what are they really talking about?
In this collaborative piece written across two countries during the Covid 19 pandemic, co-authors introduce the concepts of pedagogy of care and the ethics of care.
A year from the beginning of the pandemic, Dr. Ravitch offers "Methods Pedagogy for Practitioners: Supporting Students’ Wisdoms of Practice"
Why does Dr. Sharon Ravitch start a qualitative methods course with a unit on Black Lives Matter?
Dr. Ravitch suggests pedagogical thinking for online teaching and learning in the midst of a crisis.
Multimodal qualitative research can make use of visual data beyond simple data visualization.
Dr, Ravitch reflects on listening and learning, and meanings for social research.
Stories can reveal otherwise hidden truths. Read about ways that storytelling can enhance research.
Learn about using qualitative data visualization in visual storytelling.
Research plans up in the air thanks to COVID-19? Keep going with ideas from Sharon Ravitch!
What happens between the researcher's question or prompt, and the participant's answer? Read Sharon Ravitch's thoughtful post!
Conditions in the world are changing, so researchers need to be responsive to participants. Find a practical, thoughtful post from Dr. Sharon Ravitch.