Sociologist of education Lisa M. Perhamus is an Associate Professor, Director of Civil Discourse, and a Division of Inclusion and Equity Faculty Associate at Grand Valley State University (USA). Her qualitative research asks questions about the human experience of oppression across multiple contexts and the kinesthetic ways that children, their families, and community members create conditions of resiliency.
Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education, 2014
This book chapter examines the application and theory of Grounded Theory in Early Childhood Educa... more This book chapter examines the application and theory of Grounded Theory in Early Childhood Education research.
Background/Context: This article examines a 2011 court case in which an Ohio state court convicte... more Background/Context: This article examines a 2011 court case in which an Ohio state court convicted and jailed a poor, single, Black mother of two school-aged children for "stealing an education." Using a false address, the mother, Kelley Williams-Bolar, enrolled her daughters in a public school district that was more privileged and amply resourced than their home district in order to provide her children a "better education." The court's ruling and public opinion on this case (as illustrated through media) serve as the context of this article's analysis.
There is a new awakening in our country. Born out of anguish and anger, people are transforming g... more There is a new awakening in our country. Born out of anguish and anger, people are transforming grief and rage into the possibility of a better future. The outcry after the Grand Juries to acknowledge the lives of Michael Brown and Eric Garner has brought forth new political energies, exposing the violence, racism, and inequalities that have become ordinary in our lives. 1
Rubric nation: Critical inquiries on the impact of rubrics in education, 2015
(Book chapter)
A poststructural lens is used to examine the use of rubrics in education. Drawing ... more (Book chapter) A poststructural lens is used to examine the use of rubrics in education. Drawing on Kristeva's concept of intertextuality and feminist Foucauldian theory, the chapter analyzes the implications of the ways in which the use of rubrics is a standardization of the self.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2010
This article provide an empirically grounded analysis of how children and adults kinesthetically ... more This article provide an empirically grounded analysis of how children and adults kinesthetically recontextualize standardized, official health messages into personally meaningful, context-specific health knowledge. The in-depth interview research uses grounded theory methodology to analyze transcripts and a sociology of childhood framework to design a child-centered methodological tool for collecting data with young children. Analysis demonstrates the need for further child-centered research regarding children's cognitive and experiential understanding of current health regimes, and discusses implications of theorizing recontextualization processes with a kinesthetic lens. Research findings include a warrant for further investigation of the biopolitical relationship between health promotion and the social body that attends to the experiential aspects of advancing moralizing health messages.
This article examines how health promotion is experienced by students, their families, and their ... more This article examines how health promotion is experienced by students, their families, and their teachers. Experiential aspects of health point to the embodied and sensory dynamics of health meaning-making. Findings of this qualitative study indicate that (1) people make sense of health kinesthetically, and (2) when needs are high and resources are low, school-based health promotion takes the shape of crisis management. The first finding foregrounds the role of viscerality, illustrating the intimacy of health; the second finding points to the importance of context, demonstrating the contingency of health. Also introduced are the theoretical frame of kinesthetic circuitry (the somatic transferences between people) and the methodological strategy of transcriptive memo-writing (writing the memo at the time of transcription), both which emerged as findings in and of themselves through the re-search's Constructivist Grounded Theory approach. The concluding discussion considers the biopolitical implications of kinesthetic circuitry.
Dismantling colonial monuments (“ideological powerhouses”) is a dismantling of white supremacy. T... more Dismantling colonial monuments (“ideological powerhouses”) is a dismantling of white supremacy. This talk argues that monument topplings constitute anti-racist critical public pedagogies which (1) critique the inequities proliferated by relationships of power in the public sphere; (2) interrupt these inequities through embodied practices; and (3) offer a vision for equitable racial social change. Anti-racist critical public pedagogies leverage the “collective voice” of protestors as “public power” to affect sociopolitical change. The talk proposes that the elements of racial honesty; culture of praxis; and radical imagination and love are critical for sustaining the activism of this moment.
This was an invited talk given on October 28, 2020 at University College London, Institute of Edu... more This was an invited talk given on October 28, 2020 at University College London, Institute of Education, as part of their philosophy of education seminars. co-sponsored by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB).
https://youtu.be/gtD-b7rSaFo
Handbook of Research Methods in Early Childhood Education, 2014
This book chapter examines the application and theory of Grounded Theory in Early Childhood Educa... more This book chapter examines the application and theory of Grounded Theory in Early Childhood Education research.
Background/Context: This article examines a 2011 court case in which an Ohio state court convicte... more Background/Context: This article examines a 2011 court case in which an Ohio state court convicted and jailed a poor, single, Black mother of two school-aged children for "stealing an education." Using a false address, the mother, Kelley Williams-Bolar, enrolled her daughters in a public school district that was more privileged and amply resourced than their home district in order to provide her children a "better education." The court's ruling and public opinion on this case (as illustrated through media) serve as the context of this article's analysis.
There is a new awakening in our country. Born out of anguish and anger, people are transforming g... more There is a new awakening in our country. Born out of anguish and anger, people are transforming grief and rage into the possibility of a better future. The outcry after the Grand Juries to acknowledge the lives of Michael Brown and Eric Garner has brought forth new political energies, exposing the violence, racism, and inequalities that have become ordinary in our lives. 1
Rubric nation: Critical inquiries on the impact of rubrics in education, 2015
(Book chapter)
A poststructural lens is used to examine the use of rubrics in education. Drawing ... more (Book chapter) A poststructural lens is used to examine the use of rubrics in education. Drawing on Kristeva's concept of intertextuality and feminist Foucauldian theory, the chapter analyzes the implications of the ways in which the use of rubrics is a standardization of the self.
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 2010
This article provide an empirically grounded analysis of how children and adults kinesthetically ... more This article provide an empirically grounded analysis of how children and adults kinesthetically recontextualize standardized, official health messages into personally meaningful, context-specific health knowledge. The in-depth interview research uses grounded theory methodology to analyze transcripts and a sociology of childhood framework to design a child-centered methodological tool for collecting data with young children. Analysis demonstrates the need for further child-centered research regarding children's cognitive and experiential understanding of current health regimes, and discusses implications of theorizing recontextualization processes with a kinesthetic lens. Research findings include a warrant for further investigation of the biopolitical relationship between health promotion and the social body that attends to the experiential aspects of advancing moralizing health messages.
This article examines how health promotion is experienced by students, their families, and their ... more This article examines how health promotion is experienced by students, their families, and their teachers. Experiential aspects of health point to the embodied and sensory dynamics of health meaning-making. Findings of this qualitative study indicate that (1) people make sense of health kinesthetically, and (2) when needs are high and resources are low, school-based health promotion takes the shape of crisis management. The first finding foregrounds the role of viscerality, illustrating the intimacy of health; the second finding points to the importance of context, demonstrating the contingency of health. Also introduced are the theoretical frame of kinesthetic circuitry (the somatic transferences between people) and the methodological strategy of transcriptive memo-writing (writing the memo at the time of transcription), both which emerged as findings in and of themselves through the re-search's Constructivist Grounded Theory approach. The concluding discussion considers the biopolitical implications of kinesthetic circuitry.
Dismantling colonial monuments (“ideological powerhouses”) is a dismantling of white supremacy. T... more Dismantling colonial monuments (“ideological powerhouses”) is a dismantling of white supremacy. This talk argues that monument topplings constitute anti-racist critical public pedagogies which (1) critique the inequities proliferated by relationships of power in the public sphere; (2) interrupt these inequities through embodied practices; and (3) offer a vision for equitable racial social change. Anti-racist critical public pedagogies leverage the “collective voice” of protestors as “public power” to affect sociopolitical change. The talk proposes that the elements of racial honesty; culture of praxis; and radical imagination and love are critical for sustaining the activism of this moment.
This was an invited talk given on October 28, 2020 at University College London, Institute of Edu... more This was an invited talk given on October 28, 2020 at University College London, Institute of Education, as part of their philosophy of education seminars. co-sponsored by the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain (PESGB).
https://youtu.be/gtD-b7rSaFo
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A poststructural lens is used to examine the use of rubrics in education. Drawing on Kristeva's concept of intertextuality and feminist Foucauldian theory, the chapter analyzes the implications of the ways in which the use of rubrics is a standardization of the self.
https://youtu.be/gtD-b7rSaFo
A poststructural lens is used to examine the use of rubrics in education. Drawing on Kristeva's concept of intertextuality and feminist Foucauldian theory, the chapter analyzes the implications of the ways in which the use of rubrics is a standardization of the self.
https://youtu.be/gtD-b7rSaFo