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Kathryn Roulston
Associate Professor and Graduate Coordinator
Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
Qualitative Research Program

Education
Ph.D. in Education
University of Queensland, Australia


Contact Information
The University of Georgia
Department of Lifelong Education, Administration, and Policy
850 College Station Road
River’s Crossing, Room 308
Athens, GA 30602
Phone: (706) 542-4060
Fax: (706) 542-5873
roulston@uga.edu

Research Interests

  • Qualitative research methods
  • Ethnomethodology and conversation analysis
  • Teachers’ work
  • Topics in music education

Courses Typically Taught

  • QUAL 8400 Qualitative Research Traditions
  • QUAL 8410 Qualitative Research Design
  • QUAL 8420 Qualitative Data Analysis
  • QUAL 9400 Advanced Seminar in Qualitative Research
  • QUAL 8520 Interviewing in Qualitative Research
  • QUAL 8560 Ethnomethodological and Conversation Analytic Studies

Selected Publications

Co-Authored Book

book cover Aaron, J., Bauer, E., Commeyras, M., Cox, S., Daniell, B., Elrick, E., Fecho, B., Hermann-Wilmarth, J., Hogan, B., Pintaone-Hernandez, A., Roulston, K., Siegel, A., & Vaughn. H. (2006). “No deposit, no return”: Enriching literacy teaching and learning through critical inquiry pedagogy. Newark, DE: International Reading Association.

Chapters

Roulston, K., Legette, R., DeLoach, M., & Buckhalter, C. (2008). Troubling certainty: Readers’ theatre in music education research. In M. Cahnmann-Taylor & R. Siegesmund (Eds.), Arts-based research in education: Foundations for practice (pp. 208-219). New York & London: Routledge.

Liljestrom, A., Roulston, K., & deMarrais, K. (2007). “There’s no place for feeling like this in the workplace”: Women teachers’ anger in school settings. In P. Schutz, & R. Pekrun (Eds.), Emotion in education (pp. 267-284). Amsterdam: Academic Press.

Roulston, K. (2004). Ethnomethodological and conversation analytic studies. In K. B. deMarrais & S. D. Lapan, (Eds.). Foundations for research: Method of inquiry in education and the social sciences (pp. 139-160). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Gale, J., Lawless, J., & Roulston, K. (2004). Discursive approaches to clinical research. In T. Strong & D. Pare, (Eds.). Furthering talk: Advances in the discursive therapies (pp. 125-144). New York: Kluwer Academic/Plenum.

Roulston, K. (2001). Investigating the cast of characters in a cultural world. In A. McHoul & M. Rapley (eds.) How to analyse talk in institutional settings: A casebook of methods, (pp. 100-112). London: Continuum.

Refereed Journal Articles

Roulston, K., McClendon, V. J., Thomas, A., Tuff, R., Williams, G., & Healy, M. (2008). Developing reflective interviewers and reflexive researchers. Reflective Practice, 9(3), 231-243.

Freeman, M., deMarrais, K., Preissle, J., Roulston, K., & St. Pierre, E. (2007). Standards of evidence in qualitative research: An incitement to discourse. Educational Researcher, 36(1), 1-8.

Wang, J., & Roulston, K. (2007). An alternative approach to conceptualizing interviews in HRD research. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 18(2), 179-210.


St. Pierre, E. A., & Roulston, K. (2006). The state of qualitative inquiry: A contested science. International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, 19(6), 673-684.

Roulston, K. (2006). Close encounters of the ‘CA’ kind: A review of literature analyzing talk in research interviews. Qualitative Research, 6(4), 535-554.

Roulston, K. (2006). Mapping the possibilities of qualitative research in music education: A primer. Music Education Research, 8(2), 153-173.

Roulston, K. (2006). Qualitative investigation of young children\'s music preferences. International Journal of Education & the Arts, 7(9). Retrieved [data] from http://ijea.asu.edu/v7n9/.

Roulston, K., Legette, R., DeLoach, M., Buckhalter Pittman, C., Cory, L., & Grenier, R. (2005). Developing a teacher-research group in music education: Mentoring and community through research. Research Studies in Music Education.

Roulston, K., Legette, R., DeLoach, M., & Pittman, C. (2005). What is “research” for teacher-researchers? Educational Action Research, 13(2), 169-189.

Roulston, K., Legette, R., & Womack, S. (2005). Beginning music teachers’ perceptions of the transition from university to teaching in schools. Music Education Research, 7(1), 61-84.

Roulston, K. (2004). An investigation of music teachers’ work in changing times. Journal of Educational Change, 5, 31-56.

Roulston, K., deMarrais, K., & Lewis, J. (2003). Learning to interview in the social sciences. Qualitative Inquiry, 9(4), 643-668.

Roulston, K. (2001). Data analysis and ‘theorizing as ideology’. Qualitative Research, 1(3), 279-302.

Roulston, K. (2001). Introducing ethnomethodological analysis to the field of music education. Music Education Research, 3(2), 121-142.

Roulston, K., Baker, C., & Liljestrom, A. (2001) Analyzing the interviewer’s work in the generation of research data: The case of complaints. Qualitative Inquiry, 7(6), 745-772.

Roulston, K. (2000). The management of ‘safe’ and ‘unsafe’ complaint sequences in research interviews. Text 20(3), 1-39.

Roulston, K., & Mills, M. (2000). Male teachers in feminized teaching areas: Marching to the beat of the men’s movement drums? Oxford Review of Education 26(2), 221-237.

Reviews

Roulston, K., & Zuiker, S. (2005). “What’s to look at in Ethnomethodology’s program?” [Review of Garfinkel, H. Ethnomethodology’s program: Working out Durkheim’s Aphorism. Edited and introduced by Anne Warfield Rawls, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. (2002).] Linguistics and Education.

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Australian Institute for Ethnomethodology and Conversation Analysis

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