Queer Life and The Muslim Mainstream

There has been a proliferation of qualitative approaches to researching education. While this has resulted in the construction of a rich tapestry of knowledge about education, it has also resulted in disparate research ideas, processes and practices, and created tensions relating to what constitutes rigorous qualitative research in education. As such, the aim of this paper was to use a multidisciplinary perspective and draw on concepts and practices relating to research coherence, reflexivity, transparency, authenticity, sincerity, credibility and ethics to (1) problematise traditional approaches to rigour in qualitative education research and (2) support those who do interpretive qualitative education research to select and embed relevant concepts and practices to increase and evidence the rigour of their work. I end this paper with an attempt to galvanise interpretive qualitative researchers in education to reflexively consider and justify the ways and extent to which their research decisions, processes and practices are rigorous.

Contents: Autonomy in second/foreign language education - The role of identity and agency in the long-term development of autonomy - Learner, teacher and institutional agendas (discourses) - Interpretative qualitative research - Documenting students' pathways towards autonomy across four academic years in a BA TEFL programme - Learner perspectives on teacher-student role relationships - Learner perspectives on the university learning environment - TEFL learning: stories of student teachers' autonomous development.

Transformation of national economies caused by globalization and digitalization of business processes leads to changes in the whole chain of relationships at the levels of "state-individual", "employee-employer", "tax authority-taxpayer". The following research goal is to develop a unified construct of the taxation system, taking into account modern transformation processes and system economy principles. The research applies a comprehensive approach, which includes three main analysis methods: qualitative comparative analysis, simulation modeling, and interpretative qualitative research. Qualitative comparative analysis was used to identify the elements of individual taxation. Simulation modeling was used to visualize taxation main parameters and limitations. Interpretative research was used to describe the interaction of the system elements. The scientific novelty of the research is the presented architectonics of individual taxation system, which develops the theory of system economy of Kleiner and includes 4 elements (subsystems), classified by the criterion of definiteness of time and space. First, objects – exist in the uncertainty of time and the certainty of space. Second, projects - exist in limited time and defined space. Third, environments – exist in the indefiniteness of time and the uncertainty of space. Fourth, processes - exist in limited time and uncertainty of space. The elements of the objective subsystem include taxpayers individuals and individual entrepreneurs, tax authorities, tax agents, other participants of tax legal relations, and the territory. The project subsystem includes tools and mechanisms of tax regulation, which are experimental and temporary in nature. Tax functions implementation was visualized in the context of the presented system.

In my experience, religion strives to drive a wedge between queer folk and their sexuality. Further, by perpetuating the sexualised construction of identity, it excludes particular sources of knowledge as fit only for people situated comfortably within its heteronormative models. Yet there is plenty of evidence that many queer lives are open to sources of ‘spiritual’ insight (as I will define it) beyond the heteronormative filters of the standard model. I present an extract from my memoir, a work in progress titled The Boy in the Yellow Dress, to demonstrate how the practice of life writing can produce versions of subjectivity that are resistant to homophobic constructions. Such praxis works not only to ‘talk back’ to the culture but also to uncover and reclaim previously unrecognised knowledge resources, detoxified of the homophobia embedded in conventional religion and the pathologising discourses of medicine. The dis-illusionment that many gay men go through is re-presented as a stripping away of illusions, precipitating a radical inquiry into the nature of being that I propose is at the very heart of spiritual practice. Taking the famous Zen interrogatory ‘Show me your original face before your parents were born’ as a pointer, I argue that, rather than upholding a fixed notion of self that is culturally produced, historically situated, and politically defended, in its quest for continuing liberation queer intelligence can prove responsive to the deconstructive imperative inherent in certain ‘Eastern’ approaches to religious practice.

Queer expressions in Kenya are caught up in various discourses of law, religion, desire, nationhood, fantasy, language, aspirations and cultural codes. As a result of these interplays that rub against each other, contradictions about queer expressions become evident. To contextualise queer expressions in Kenya, and to usefully tease out these contradictions, an understanding of Kenya’s lived realities that cohere around these discourses can be explored using an enabling narrative framework. This framework relates to how the various discourses are produced, circulated and understood about queer lives. To this end I read Stories of Our Lives (2015), a queer archival project, to show how queer bodies narrate their lives in Kenya in ways that potentially create meanings and create subjectivity against a contradictory background. This practice of queer narration is understood not as an attempt at presenting a coherent body of selves but, rather, as a conscious rendition of particular cognitions of queer analysis which ultimately becomes a site of and for new meanings for queer selves.

This paper inquires into the heteronormative regimes of sexual morality, focusing on the experiences of gay and queer men within the locus of family. Drawing upon a phenomenological ethnography involving interviews with the Indian gay community, this study demonstrates the disciplinary power of sexual morality over queer lives. It examines the varied strategies of moral regimentation within the locus of family, including regimenting through silencing, moral dictation, and penalizing. These strategies reflect the prevailing conservative and sex-negative attitudes in Indian society, particularly patriarchal expectations toward men and the pressure for marriage, which augments familial and social burdens on gay men, resulting in emotional distress. The cumulative effects lead to gay men living double lives, presenting a socially accepted façade while repressing their authentic queer selves, indicating a guilty conscience and internalized homophobia. These experiences correlate with risky sexual behavior, substance abuse, and overall compromised mental health. This phenomenological inquiry highlights the role of the family as a locus of moral control of queer individuals and contributes to the sociological understanding of morality as a power-relation.

The development of the increasingly advanced century at this time has resulted in humanistic literacy at the elementary school level being eroded, learning about humanistic values, history, and culture in elementary schools is disappearing and resulting in the character values of students becoming more and more deteriorating. The CRT learning model is a solution to this problem that can be done for now. Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) is a theoretical approach that aims to help students accept and reinforce their cultural identity, as well as improve learning achievement. Humanistic literacy is the basis of behavior in society and participation in social life that is important to be improved. his research aims to strengthen humanistic literacy by using the Culturally Responsive Teaching (CRT) approach in order to introduce Indonesia's cultural diversity to students, this is expected to help students understand the cultural richness that exists in Indonesia, as well as become individuals who are able to appreciate and respect the cultural diversity around them. The sample of this study is grade IV students of SD Negeri Palebon 01, Semarang City. This type of research uses interpretive qualitative research and interpretive qualitative research is an approach in research that focuses on an in-depth understanding of social phenomena from the perspective of the participants or subjects being studied. The data collection techniques in this study are observation, interviews, journal reflections and documentation. The data analysis technique in this study is copying data from interviews, observations, analyzing data, and drawing conclusions. The results of the study show that the application of the Cultural Responsive Teaching (CRT) approach is very feasible in optimizing humanistic literacy in elementary schools. This learning design emphasizes the importance of understanding and improving students' social foundation values, as well as incorporating their social values and honing learning preparation.

The presence of social media allows researchers to consider new data collection and triangulation strategies. Positivist researchers take advantage of the internet's presence as a medium for collecting data. Meanwhile, interpretive qualitative researchers have not utilized the potential provided by social media to enrich data collection in order to deepen understanding of a topic being researched. By using the case of the effectiveness of the application of e-procurement in a district, the researcher conducted face-to-face interviews (offline) and also observed discussions on social media and content sharing about the implementation and use of government e-procurement in a district. This study uses an interpretative qualitative paradigm to describe how social media exchanges, uploads, and conversations can be used as a means of collecting data in interpretive qualitative research. The results of this study indicate that social media observation can be used as a research tool to increase understanding of a topic being studied and also as a triangulation medium. This study also proves that the use of social media in interpretive studies can reduce challenges in informant recruitment, access to research sites, and reduce bias in interviews. This research contributes to the understanding of a research topic using data from two environments.Keywords:Social media, interpretif study, e-procurement effectiveness, research paradigm

Qualitative communication research approaches vary from grounded theory and participant-observation to Q-sort, content analysis, and ethnographic inquiry—to name but a few. What often rests outside the qualitative rubric is the hermeneutic tradition of interpretive scholarship. This essay unites interpretive inquiry and qualitative research in summary fashion by outlining a macro understanding of qualitative communication inquiry, an interpretive approach to communication scholarship within a philosophical tradition entitled philosophical hermeneutics, and finally a public roadmap of how to understand and engage interpretive inquiry as a form of qualitative research in communication. This essay advocates interpretive inquiry as an additional contributor to the ongoing tradition of qualitative research in communication.

The aim of this paper is to review the methodology for interpretive qualitative case study research method using systems theory. The paper also addresses the underlying assumptions of this research methodology and how these affect the way research questions are answered. In reviewing this methodology, an example is provided so that more physiotherapy researchers and clinicians can adopt this approach in their work. KEYWORDS : qualitative, interpretive, case study, systems theory, methodology

The aim of this paper is to review the methodology for interpretive qualitative case study research method using systems theory. The paper also addresses the underlying assumptions of this research methodology and how these affect the way research questions are answered. In reviewing this methodology, an example is provided so that more physiotherapy researchers and clinicians can adopt this approach in their work.KEYWORDS: qualitative, interpretive, case study, systems theory, methodology

This essay is written in and as a queer fugue—a series of themes and variations on grief, on loss and remembering, on the constitutive and dispossessing dance of relationality, and on the possibilities of becoming and forgiving. It is an essay about public mourning, queer relationships, being undone by death and language, and about making a case for recognizing unrecognized and unspeakable grief. It is an essay that recognizes the debts we owe to those we’ve lost, celebrates the queer selves and lives we could not do without, and how the words and voices and lives of others who are not acknowledged as fully or equally human are significant and profound.

The aim of this study is to determine the opinions of primary school teachers about the problem behaviors and speech and language difficulties they encounter in their students based on their experiences and to reveal their needs for these issues. A basic qualitative research design, also known as basic interpretive qualitative research or interpretive qualitative research, was employed. The study's participants were 28 teachers employed at various primary schools and across different grade levels in a city within the Central Anatolia region of Turkey during the 2023-2024 academic year. Focus group interviews were utilized to explore the prior knowledge, opinions, and experiences of primary school teachers in enhancing the language skills of students with special needs and in managing their problem behaviors interactively. Teachers predominantly reported encountering externalized problem behaviors, including physical and verbal aggression, property damage, bullying, and classroom disruption. Teachers frequently encounter speech and language difficulties with their students in inclusive classrooms in their professional careers, with most reporting experiences with speech difficulties such as speech sound disorder, rapid slurred speech, and stuttering. The need for enhanced training and information is further International Technology and Education Journal Vol. 9, No. 1; June 2025 15 highlighted by the challenges teachers face in inclusive education settings, particularly in classroom management, addressing problem behaviors, and promoting positive behaviors and supporting speech and language skills of students. Recommendations for practice and further research were provided.

The primary purpose of this metasynthesis study was to explore the end-of-life experiences of Indigenous peoples by synthesizing the findings of qualitative research. Sandelowski and Barroso's methodology for synthesizing qualitative research was used and included (a) a comprehensive search, (b) appraising reports of qualitative studies, (c) classification of studies, and (d) synthesis of the findings. Research team members guided this process. This team was multidisciplinary and included Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers from Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. Following a comprehensive search, 2255 studies were reviewed and assessed against five inclusion criteria: (a) studies on the experiences of Indigenous populations (all genders, 18 + years of age) at the end of life, (b) studies published in English from any country, (c) studies using qualitative and mixed-methods designs, and (d) studies published between 1993 and 2013. Some 18 studies met the inclusion criteria, and their findings were synthesized. "Preparing the spirit" for transition to the next life was the overarching theme. "Preparing the spirit" occurred within the context of "where we come from." Processes involved in "preparing the spirit" were healing, connecting, and protecting; through these processes, "what I want at the end of life" was realized. Although not the focus of the metasynthesis, a significant finding was that the studies reviewed identified very clear barriers within healthcare systems and current healthcare provider practices to "preparing the spirit." The findings provide a beginning understanding of the end-of-life experiences of Indigenous peoples and a foundation for future research. More interpretive qualitative research is critical if palliative care services, the healthcare system, and healthcare providers are to reduce current barriers to "preparing the spirit" for the journey at the end of life.

Discussions of LGBTQIA+ rights are still taboo in parts of Africa where traditional and religious values remain significant. As public discussions of queer life can bring about marginalization and threaten personal safety, some Nigerian authors have opted to present literary queer selves. Few studies of queer African autobiographical writing have been conducted. This article examines Unoma Azuah’s Embracing My Shadow: Growing up Lesbian in Nigeria (2020) and Chike Frankie Edozien’s Lives of Great Men: Living and Loving as an African Gay Man (2017) to investigate how the queer self is represented through the mundane. The works are amongst the first to narrate gay and lesbian lives in Nigeria. By canonizing the mundane, Azuah and Edozien describe the dimensions of their lives and their negotiations of sexual, racial, and national identity. The article examines their queer experiences, their reconciliation with parents and family, and how they confront tradition.