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The geopolitical U.S.- Mexico border undergrids most Borderlands studies and pedagogy in the Western hemisphere (Montoya, 2020)

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Presentación de mapas mentales y lluvia de ideas creativo garabatos rosa (1)

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1. Strong qualitative writing engages readers emotionally while staying grounded in analytical insight.

2. Tracy emphasizes that good writing shows transparency about how findings were constructed, helping readers trust the researcher’s interpretations.

3. Ultimately, writing in qualitative research is about connection, linking researcher, participants, and readers through thoughtful and responsible storytelling.

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The authors use Anzaldúa’s idea of nepantla to show how living between worlds can be both painful and transformative.

Carlos’s story illustrates how bilingualism and cultural hybridity can empower teachers to create more inclusive classrooms.

His experiences highlight the emotional challenges of navigating whiteness within educational systems while trying to remain authentic.

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Phronesis (Practical Wisdom)

From Aristotle’s philosophy.

Involves making ethical and context-sensitive judgments.

Researchers using PIQDA are expected to act as reflexive moral agents, not just neutral observers.

2. Iteration

Analysis is non-linear.

You move back and forth between data, codes, theory, and interpretation.

Encourages multiple rounds of coding and reflection.

3. Collaboration and Dialogue

Often done in teams, where researchers challenge and refine interpretations together.

Makes space for diverse perspectives to enhance trustworthiness.

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Interesting Point: They used journals throughout their collection process in order to guard against bias and setting aside their positionalities .

The study uses interpretive phenomenological analysis (IPA), which means detailed reflection on one individual’s lived experience to understand how they make sense of their world.

The participant is “Carlos” (pseudonym) — a Latino male future teacher who identifies with Mexican American culture and is negotiating his identity in schooling and teaching spaces.

Great Quote: Ignorance splits and subjugates those involved, robbing an important opportunity for whites to share and exchange and learn from others borderlands consciousness

Great point: While qualitative inquiry seeks not to generalize, magnifying one’s experience can alter thinking beyond the individual.

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·      Glows: From this article, it was clear that the authors were working on understanding what it felt like to be a Mexican/American teacher and to be part of the borderlands, both figuratively and actually.

·      Grows: Still trying to figure out how this differs from narrative inquiry. Seems to overlap a lot with me with sharing stories and descriptions of what happened.

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·      Glows: Learning that sitting with your data means not only reading and coding once, but multiple times and concentrating on different priorities each time.

o   While AI can be useful and helpful for coding, researchers still need to check whether the themes and outcomes are accurate.

·      Grows: Supposed to research until new information does not bring upon new insights; however, how to we balance that with time management and realistic deadlines?

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It seems like the author interviewed a number of prospective teaching candidates(?) from AK-H’s former classes. How did she choose Carlos from the others? She interviewed enough Latino male teachers to form a support group, so what stood out about Carlos?

How would Carlos’ experiences with American schooling have been in a more Latino-heavy area? I’m not sure if he initially moved to Chicago or just attended college there, but I’ve never heard  of an Illinois-style burrito, but I did eat some very depressing “tacos” there once. I joke about food a lot when talking about culture, but one of the hardest things about living in Albania was adjusting to a lack of some of the flavors and dishes I was used to. The food was often delicious and fresh, but it was challenging craving a particular comfort dish and knowing I wouldn't even be able close to making it with the supplies and spices I had available.

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Tracy recommends fragmenting first and then clustering fragments as needed. I think this requires more work on the front end, but saves time later on. How appropriate would this strategy be for a class where time is limited versus a longer-scale project where the entire study might take place over an entire year?

Emphasis can be used alongside frequency of repetition to help code things. A low-frequency, heavily-emphasized event can be a code as much as something that is heard over and over but more casually.

Tracy mentions the potential of AI for help with coding, but I don’t think the tech is quite there yet. I’ve been encouraged to experiment with ChatGPT and other AI tools in another of my classes and have spent as much time trying to get it to do what I want as I would’ve taken to just do the task myself.

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Internal rupturing when he was told he would be staying permanently in the US. Wanting to go back to Mexico because he wanted to reject the colonialism he felt in the US.

This is so common for so many immigrant families. Children are the ones who feel the sense of powerlessness as the adults make decisions that have such huge impacts on their lives.

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·       “Openness to possibility and other onto-epistemologies represents an increasingly necessary endeavor toward disrupting and dismantling oppressive and marginalizing social structures, systems, and discourses” (p. 1).

·       “In education, acceptance of and creating space for counter-hegemonic knowledge forms and subjectivities illustrates the commitment to nuanced ways of pedagogical knowing/being/doing, reflecting a commitment to inclusivity and an embrace of the increasingly diversifying educational landscape” (p. 1).

·       “Despite questions of not/ belonging, Carlos utilizes his hybridity to navigate oppressive conditions, to privilege otherwise marginalized ways of knowing, and to wield multiple forms of capital toward more justice-oriented, decolonized aims for wholeness–for himself and for others like him” (p. 6).

·       “Carlos’s allegiance to and fondness for his bilingual classroom illuminates the enduring linguistic, racial, and cultural traversing that cultivates space for decolonizing knowledge forms in U.S. schools” (p. 9).

·       “In these ways, the dominance of the English language and Anglo ways of knowing and being reflect unequivocal embodiments of power–ones that consequently amplify tensions in-between” (p. 10).

·       “Therefore, this research demonstrates the importance of privileging often-marginalized Borderlands narratives, aiming to short-circuit the hegemonies and institutions that center whiteness and white onto-epistemologies within and beyond educational spaces” (p. 13).

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PIQDA utilizes existing theory and research questions to analyze the data repeatedly which produces new emergent qualitative data. Each level of coding and analysis can bring out new "aha" moments. Recording these moments and new ideas are important so that they can continue to guide the project. Talking/writing about these insights are key to ensuring that these ideas don't fade over time or are lost when a different theme/category presents itself.

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Although coding contradicts the theoretical framework, the use of coding will facilitate data analysis for future related research.

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How do you all distinguish between narrative, Phenomenological, and ethnographic? The outcomes and findings seem similar in structure, but the approaches feel different.

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What are everyone's previous or current preferences on manual coding? I do manual coding where I review the transcripts and highlight the text in different colors, and I begin to see themes emerge.