Foreword
Yolanda Sealey-Ruiz
Introduction: Caring in Research with Youth in Schools
Veena Vasudevan, Nora Gross, Pavithra Nagarajan, and Katherine Clonan-Roy
Part I Re/Unlearning Our Orientation to Research: Critical Frameworks for Research in Schools
1 All or Nothing: Demystifying the “What,” “When,” and “How” of Participant Observation in School-Based Research with Black Youth
Natalie R. Davis and Alaina Neal-Jackson
2 Platicando entre Compañeras: The Use of Pláticas to Navigate Ethical Dilemmas in Ethnographic Research with and for Latina High School Students
Bianca N. Haro
3 Care as Resistance and Epistemological Necessity in YPAR
Meagan Call-Cummings and Melissa Hauber-Özer
Part II Collaborating and Co-Creating with Youth: Caring through Sharing Ownership of the Research
4 From Hallway Conversations to Making Together: How Care Can Shift Relationships with Young People in Schools
Veena Vasudevan
5 “The Life of Julio Good”: The Black Ratchet Imagination and Messy Methods as Caring Ethics
Ariana Brazier
6 The Reception and Reward of Relationship-Building and Enacting Care with Black Boys
Pavithra Nagarajan
7 Developing Sustainable Partnerships between Researchers and Youth Participants: Fostering Shared Learning across Time and Difference
Matthew R. Deroo and Ilhan Mohamud
Part III Negotiating Emergent Tensions: Developing and Sustaining Caring Relationships with Youth
8 Intervening through Intimate Inquiry with Youth
Katherine Clonan-Roy
9 A “Friend” or an “Experiment”?: The Paradox of Ethnographic Relationships with Youth
Nora Gross
10 Unraveling a Researcher’s Practices of Care with One Disabled Youth
Katie Scott Newhouse
11 Culturally Responsive Caring and Emergent Tensions in a Bilingual Mentoring Program in a Diverse School
James S. Chisholm, Melanie Jones Gast, and Ashley L. Shelton
Part IV Collaborating with Universities, Communities, and Schools: Navigating the Challenges of Caring Research Partnerships
12 Conceptions of Care and Graduate Student Researcher Positionality: Struggling to Reconcile “Researcher” Care with Personal Moral Commitments
Van Anh Tran, Errol C. Saunders II, Shamari Reid, and Lum Fube
13 Pedagogical Reflections: Teaching Care in Qualitative Research Classrooms
Stephanie Masta and Ophélie Allyssa Desmet
14 Establishing, Executing, and Extending Caring Community-Based Research Partnerships
Charity Lisko, Katie Woolford, and Rand Quinn
15 Just Inquiry Rooted in Critical Care: Participatory, Intergenerational Research Tracing the Legacy of School in the Square
Samuel Finesurrey, Camille Lester, Sherry King, Michelle Fine, and the Intergenerational S2 Research Collective
Conclusion: Caring in Contentious Times
Veena Vasudevan, Nora Gross, Pavithra Nagarajan, and Katherine Clonan-Roy