Postqualitative inquiry

Postqualitative inquiry is a research philosophy proposed by University of Georgia Professor of Education Elizabeth St. Pierre[1] in 2011 that advocates for an intentional deconstructive stance toward concepts within traditional research methods on human subjects, such as interviews, data analysis, and validity.[2] It incorporates ideas from posthumanism, critical theory, poststructuralism, and indigenous research philosophies, emphasizing the use of epistemological and ontological principles to deconstruct and reconstruct assumed knowledge about "the nature of being and human being, language, representation, knowledge, truth, [and] rationality."[3] Postqualitative inquiry does not follow a defined method and methodology but is rather something that "emerges as a process methodology" in the midst of traditional research.[4] It is a direct response to and move away from conventional humanist qualitative research methodology.[5]

  1. ^ "Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre". Directory | College of Education. Retrieved 2023-07-31.
  2. ^ St. Pierre, Elizabeth (2011). "Post qualitative research: The critique and the coming after". The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research. (4th ed.). SAGE: 611–625.
  3. ^ St. Pierre, Elizabeth A. (2021). "Why post qualitative Inquiry?". Qualitative Inquiry. 27 (2): 163–166. doi:10.1177/1077800420931142. S2CID 225798914.
  4. ^ Mazzei, Lisa A. (2021). "Postqualitative inquiry: Or the necessity of theory". Qualitative Inquiry. 27 (2): 198–200. doi:10.1177/1077800420932607. S2CID 225734002.
  5. ^ Guttorm, H.E.; Hohti, R.; Paakkari, A. (June 2015). "Do the next thing": an interview with Elizabeth Adams St. Pierre on post-qualitative methodology". Reconceptualizing Educational Research Methodology. 6 (1). doi:10.7577/rerm.1421.