Anna CohenMiller is a TEDx speaker and multi-award-winning qualitative methodologist and educational leader who uses transformational research and leadership to address issues of equity, inclusion and justice in higher education internationally. She specializes in arts-based research to facilitate and amplify the voices of marginalized, overlooked/misheard and colonized communities, focusing on guiding and empowering early career researchers and demystifying justice-centered research. For inquiries, she can be reached through her website: [...]

Foreword: Transformative Stories Move Us Towards Justice

Donna M. Mertens

Introduction: Empowering Researchers through Stories: Indigenous Inquiry, Decolonial Research, Emancipatory Learning and the Arts

Section I: Awareness in Qualitative Inquiry

1. Knowing Ourselves in Qualitative Inquiry

2. Creating a Foundation in Qualitative Inquiry

3. Seeking a Critical Perspective in Qualitative Inquiry

Critical Self-Reflective Questions about Awareness in Qualitative Inquiry

Section II: Vulnerability in Qualitative Inquiry

4. Recognizing Failures and Potential Risks in Qualitative Inquiry

5. Noticing Vulnerability and Potential for Change in Qualitative Inquiry

6. Learning from Others in Qualitative Inquiry

Critical Self-Reflective Questions about Vulnerability in Qualitative Inquiry

Section III: Transformation in Qualitative Inquiry

7. Creating Balance in Qualitative Inquiry

8. Building Meaningful Relationships in Qualitative Inquiry

9. Developing Self-Transformation in Qualitative Inquiry

Critical Self-Reflective Questions about Transformation in Qualitative Inquiry

Conclusion: Becoming: Embracing Transformational Learning and Justice in Research through Self-Reflection and Vulnerability