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Describing the Bricolage

Conceptualizing a New Rigor in Qualitative Research

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Key Works in Critical Pedagogy

Part of the book series: Bold Visions in Educational Research ((BVER,volume 32))

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Following Joe’s demand to humanize, politicize, and transgress through qualitative research, it was natural for him to go to create a new strand of bricolage, a completely fresh approach to qualitative work. Looking at Levi Strauss’s context of bricolage and the nods made to bricolage by Norm Denzin and Yvonna Lincoln, Joe was determined to continue to criticalize and rigorize the traditional ways in which to do multi-methodological research.

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Kincheloe, J.L. (2011). Describing the Bricolage. In: Hayes, K., Steinberg, S.R., Tobin, K. (eds) Key Works in Critical Pedagogy. Bold Visions in Educational Research, vol 32. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-397-6_15

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