
Categories: Focus Series, Instruction, MentorSpace, Online Learning, Research, Research Design, Theory


Dr. Sharon Ravitch was our March 2020 Mentor-in-Residence, and what a month it was! We started out thinking that our focus would be on theory and research design, with a well-deserved feature on the new edition of the new edition of Qualitative Research: Bridging the Conceptual, Theoretical, and Methodological. However, the world had other plans! News and repercussions related to the Covid-19 pandemic soon consumed us all.
Dr. Ravitch did not miss a beat. In addition to her practical, thoughtful posts on topics related to theory and design, she also offered posts about the shift to online learning in an environment where students and faculty are experiencing disruption, fear, and trauma.
In case you were busy trying to find toilet paper or making your own masks, here is the entire series of posts from Dr. Ravitch and other contributors, including previous MethodSpace mentors, Steven Wallis and Bernadette Wright.
Theory and Research Design

- Space between Stimulus and Response: Creating Critical Research Paradises
- Qualitative Methodologies: Equity & Local Knowledges
- Storytelling, relational inquiry, and truth-listening
- Imagining Forward: Visual Storytelling to Make Research Accessible for Practice
- Basics of theory: A brief, plain language, introduction
Open Access SAGE Journal Articles
Academic Life & Covid-19

- THE BEST LAID PLANS… Qualitative Research Design During COVID-19
- FLUX Pedagogy: Transforming Teaching & Learning during Coronavirus
- From Individualism to Collective Truth-listening: Transformative Listening in a Time of COVID-19
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