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- Title
Everyday Nkali: A Mixed Methods Approach to Critically Interpreting Storytellers and Their Stories.
- Authors
Richards, Genevieve S.
- Abstract
In this article, I aim to assist in the efforts to decolonize interpretive research on intersectional social contexts, by reflecting on and constructing a research tool, The Nkali Scorecard, which articulates a quantitatively conceptual relationship between storytellers' identity-based social power and the types of stories they communicate via qualitative interviews as truths about our everyday realities. I conducted a pilot of the scorecard's application across a set of interviews given by 39 educators who work with students from historically marginalized populations. Using the qualitative data from interviews as stand-in research data for a hypothetical scenario, I produced a quantitative illustration of the educators-as-storytellers' nkali at both aggregate and individual levels of data collection. The findings from the scorecard pilot suggest that a researcher's failure to interrogate the storyteller's nkali may serve to: (a) perpetuate existing social imbalances and/or learning outcomes; (b) dampen or redirect the flow of innovative, creative, and/or nuanced solutions for historically marginalized students; (c) overlook alternative conclusions in the data; and/or (d) disempower or overestimate the role of key resources in the solution and challenge paradigms for improving the socio-academic outcomes of students from marginalized populations.
- Subjects
STORYTELLING; RESEARCH methodology
- Publication
International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches, 2018, Vol 10, Issue 1, p77
- ISSN
1834-0806
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.29034/ijmra.v10n1a5