Unpacking School Lunch is now available! Click here👈
Marion Nestle, author of Food Politics and numerous other amazing works on food, says of the book
"Unpacking School Lunch is a wonderfully written, fresh, original, and utterly compelling account of what advocates are up against in getting schools to serve healthier, more sustainable meals to kids. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone who cares about what kids eat, not least for Weaver-Hightower’s remarkably astute analysis (“unpacking!”) of conservative opposition to improving school food."
"Unpacking School Lunch is a wonderfully written, fresh, original, and utterly compelling account of what advocates are up against in getting schools to serve healthier, more sustainable meals to kids. This book is an absolute must-read for anyone who cares about what kids eat, not least for Weaver-Hightower’s remarkably astute analysis (“unpacking!”) of conservative opposition to improving school food."
How to Write Qualitative Research can help with your research or with your classes!
The response to How to Write Qualitative Research has been phenomenal. When I presented with it for an American Educational Research Association (AERA) webinar, over 1000 people from around the world signed up! Clearly folx are clamoring for a way to learn about and improve their qualitative research write-ups. I think (not so humbly) that it's a fantastic textbook/guidebook for both beginning and advanced qualitative researchers.
I'm eager for even more people to use it and let me know what they think. Order for classes or yourself now! Click here. Or look for it online from your favorite independent book store, AmazonSmile, or Barnes & Noble.
The book has a companion website with lots of both useful and just goofy things to help with your qualitative writing (and, for instructors, your teaching of qualitative writing). Click here to see it!
Check out the table of contents:
I'm eager for even more people to use it and let me know what they think. Order for classes or yourself now! Click here. Or look for it online from your favorite independent book store, AmazonSmile, or Barnes & Noble.
The book has a companion website with lots of both useful and just goofy things to help with your qualitative writing (and, for instructors, your teaching of qualitative writing). Click here to see it!
Check out the table of contents:
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Introduction
PART I: GENERAL WRITING PROCESSES FOR QUALITATIVE RESEARCHERS 1 Writing happens throughout qualitative research 2 Writing with structure 3 Writing with grammar in mind 4 Revising puts the soul in writing PART II: WRITING YOUR STUDY 5 Writing to show you were there 6 Writing about and with qualitative data 7 Writing valid qualitative findings, assertions, and conclusions 8 Writing about theory and literature 9 Writing about qualitative methods 10 Writing with and about visuals 11 Writing different genres of qualitative research 12 Writing different kinds of documents Wrapping up: 10 maxims for good qualitative writing |
It's out now!After years in the making, The Wiley Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education is now available for purchase. Thanks to my co-editor, Nancy Niemi, and all the wonderful contributors to the volume.
If it's too pricey for you as an individual student or scholar, ask your library to order it from https://www.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/book/10.1002/9781119257639 |
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Comics & Graphic Novels Work
Losing Thomas & Ella
First published in The Journal of Medical Humanities, "Losing Thomas & Ella (A Father's Story)" tells the story of two parents' experiences of the death of twin babies--a research story in comics, illustrating the affordances of the form for researchers. The comic has now been anthologized in the collection Graphic Reproduction!, alongside comics luminaries like Carol Tyler, Alison Bechdel, and Joyce Farmer.
First published in The Journal of Medical Humanities, "Losing Thomas & Ella (A Father's Story)" tells the story of two parents' experiences of the death of twin babies--a research story in comics, illustrating the affordances of the form for researchers. The comic has now been anthologized in the collection Graphic Reproduction!, alongside comics luminaries like Carol Tyler, Alison Bechdel, and Joyce Farmer.
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How to Draw Comics the Scholarly Way
Written with my frequent collaborators on Comics-Based Research, Paul Kuttner and Nick Sousanis, this essay defines the burgeoning art/science relationship between comics and research in all sorts of academic fields. The chapter appears in Patricia Leavy's Handbook of Arts-Based Research.
Written with my frequent collaborators on Comics-Based Research, Paul Kuttner and Nick Sousanis, this essay defines the burgeoning art/science relationship between comics and research in all sorts of academic fields. The chapter appears in Patricia Leavy's Handbook of Arts-Based Research.
About Marcus
Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower is Professor of Educational Foundations in the School of Education at Virginia Tech, formerly of the University of North Dakota. He teaches graduate courses in gender and education, the sociology of education, and qualitative research. He is a former Fulbright scholar to Australia, where he conducted a year-long study of the development and implementation of the world’s first federal-level policy on the education of boys. Previous to this, he taught high school English and coached girls’ soccer in Goose Creek, South Carolina, USA. His research interests include the politics of boys’ education, masculinity studies, the politics of food, the use of comics and graphic novels in qualitative research and classrooms, literacy studies, and cultural studies. He is the author of Unpacking School Lunch (Palgrave, 2022), How to Write Qualitative Research (Routledge, 2019), The Politics of Policy in Boys’ Education: Getting Boys “Right” (Palgrave Macmillan, 2008) and co-editor of The International Handbook of Gender Equity in Higher Education (forthcoming, Wiley), The Problem with Boys’ Education: Beyond the Backlash (Routledge, 2009), School Food Politics: The Complex Ecologies of Hunger and Feeding in Schools Around the World (Peter Lang, 2011), and Leaders in Gender and Education: Intellectual Self-Portraits (Sense Publishers, 2013). His scholarly articles have appeared in Educational Researcher, Review of Educational Research, Teachers College Record, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education, Gender and Education, The Journal of Mixed Methods Research, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography, among others. His work has been awarded the 2013 Anselm Strauss Award for Qualitative Family Research from the National Council on Family Relations as well as a Critics Choice Book Award from the American Educational Studies Association.
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"Marcus B. Weaver-Hightower is well known for his work on the 'boy turn' in education - an important concept which focuses attention on the discursive shift towards the disadvantages faced by boys in society. . . . The author should be congratulated on the painstaking way in which he details the complexity of policy texts, the role of individuals and agencies and the opposition to the passing of this report and subsequent policy. His research demanded considerable patience and determination to understand what went on, where, and how. It reveals more about the scope, scale, and range of gender policy-making than is usual in educational research. The book is a valuable methodological resource for graduates and teachers of critical policy analysis." Madeleine Arnot (University of Cambridge), from her review of The Politics of Policy in Boys' Education.