ERIC Number: EJ1413993
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024
Pages: 22
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Using Queer Framings and Positionalities to Unsettle Statistical Assumptions of Generalizability and Representativeness
Amanda Davis Simpfenderfer; Romeo Jackson; Danielle Aguilar; C. V. Dolan; Jason C. Garvey
Educational Studies: Journal of the American Educational Studies Association, v60 n1 p19-40 2024
This paper aims to unsettle assumptions of generalizability and representativeness in quantitative research using queer framings and positionalities. We argue that generalizability and representativeness are tools of supremacist dominance that reinforce harmful and essentialist categories of identities for the false purpose of statistical "rigor" and create more harm than benefit for queer and trans students. For many scholars, quantitative methods are antithetical to justice-centered scholarship given their historical entrenchment and current complicity in oppression and maintaining racial superiority and social dominance. With these problems firmly in mind, we draw on queer, critical, and poststructural frameworks to resist generalizability within quantitative methods. Building on these frameworks, we then present recommendations for how quantitative methods can be both queer and rigorous, thinking beyond generalizability to imagine liberatory practices for education research.
Descriptors: Homosexuality, Statistical Analysis, Generalizability Theory, Research Methodology, Social Justice, Social Bias, Racism, Higher Education, Student Personnel Services, Decision Making, Student Development, Resistance (Psychology), Indigenous Populations, Decolonization
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Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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