Laughing Across the Borders: Playful Possibilities in Teaching and Inquiry - Kakali Bhattacharya

The Journal of Language and Literacy Education (JoLLE) presents:
Laughing Across the Borders: Playful Possibilities in Teaching and Inquiry - Kakali Bhattacharya
Dr. Kakali Bhattacharya is a full professor and program coordinator of Qualitative Research Graduate Certificate at the Kansas State University. Her research interests include contemplative and de/colonizing epistemologies, ontologies, pedagogies, and methodologies. She is the 2018 winner of AERA’s Mid Career Scholar of Color Award and the 2018 winner of AERA’s Mentoring Award from Division G: Social Context of Education. She focuses on creativity in inquiry, and transnational issues of race, class, gender in higher education and has published widely, including articles in Qualitative Inquiry, International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Cultural Studies, Critical Methodologies, International Review of Qualitative Research. Her co-authored text with Kent Gillen, Power, Race, and Higher Education: A Cross-Cultural Parallel Narrative has won a 2017 Outstanding Publication Award from AERA and a 2018 Outstanding Book Award from International Congress of Qualitative Research. Dr. Bhattacharya has over 70 publications including refereed articles, books, and book chapters, in addition to editorial responsibilities with a Routledge Book Series entitled Futures of Data Analysis in Qualitative Research. She is also the guest editor of four special issues of journals such as Qualitative Inquiry, International Review of Qualitative Research, and International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education. Her work has opened up new spaces in interdisciplinary de/colonizing work and qualitative research where creativity and contemplative approaches are legitimized and seen as necessary gateways for cultivating depth, expansive inquiry, and discovering critical insights.
Dr. Bhattacharya's talk was deliverred at The 2019 JoLLE Spring Conference.
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