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Laura, Chicago State University  \nAbstract  \nAcademics have a hard time talking about the role of “love” in social research, and the lack of a working definition for its meaning only partly explains our difficulty. The more substantial barrier is our tendency to think about “research” not as a careful exploration of specific social, intellectual, or methodological problems that bear on the everyday circumstances of real people, but as the product of observable and replicable processes, of science. Love, many would argue, has nothing to do with this. I beg to differ. In previous publications, I have offered a radical counter narrative of the possibilities that a broadened view might enable. Using my own research experiences and efforts to dismantle the schoolto-prison pipeline, I sketched the beginnings ofan “intimate” approach to qualitative inquiry that is grounded in feminist theory, governed by an “ethic of love,” and expressed as “love acts”for the individuals whose lives our work aims to shape. Here, I reconsider, push, and refine these ideas with greater attention to telling truth and offering practical wisdom.  \nKeywords: intimate inquiry, love, qualitative research  \nFor the past several years, I have been openly wondering about what it means for educational researchers to do their work from a place of love (see Laura, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2014) . As I understand it, love—the material and conceptual pursuit of our own or someone else’s humanity—is as sorely needed in the field of education as it is in the city streets. My earlier writings on the subject were attempts to articulate that point and to tentatively build the framework for a lovebased approach to qualitative studies in education, what I have called “intimate inquiry.” In this article, I rethink these ideas with greater confidence and clarity by addressing the following questions: (1) What is intimate inquiry? (2) What are the assumptions and methods of intimate inquiry?  \n(3) What are the implications of invoking love in qualitative work, especially for critical, truthtelling educational researchers? For context, though, I offer a prefatory note about my entry into this methodological tradition.  \nTurning Toward Intimate Inquiry: A Preface  \nNot long ago, when my then-fifteen-year old brother, Chris, began flirting with the idea of dropping out of school, I was finishing a pilot study of student discipline policies in one of Chicago’s public high schools. I spent most of my days immersed in recent research on the ways in which ‘common sense’ discourses, school practices, and educational policies work in concert to  \nfacilitate the movement of poor youth/youth of color from schools to alternative educational placements, the streets, and prisons. Because I desperately wanted Chris to stay and do well in school, I began to draw upon these literatures and perspectives for insight into his lived world. I revisited each scholarly piece to search for explanations of his past social and academic experiences, prophecies about what laid ahead for him, and indications ofwhat I could have done in that moment to change the course of his life in some educational way. I looked at programs that could assist him, talked to people, and read more material. In November 2007, I practically moved back into my parents’ home to be near my teenage brother in the midst of his decision-making process as it unfolded. Almost intuitively, the researcher in me began documenting much of what occurred in my family home, talking with my kin casually and sometimes more formally about how they made sense of my brother’s social and academic lives, and retrieving and analyzing many of his personal artifacts to contextualize what I observed and heard.  \nIn the meantime, our parents sought professional support—from psychologists, medical doctors, social workers, and teachers—to help Chris and themselve","cbCaid67CbDlOFtK","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaid67CbDlOFtK","pdf",540935,17,"English","# Abstract\n# Turning Toward Intimate Inquiry: A Preface","[{\"question\":\"What central idea does the article argue for in social research?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that “love” should be understood as integral to qualitative research rather than excluded by a purely science-like model of observable, replicable processes.\"},{\"question\":\"What is “intimate inquiry” in this text?\",\"answer\":\"“Intimate inquiry” is a love-based qualitative methodology grounded in feminist theory, guided by an “ethic of love,” and expressed through “love acts” toward the people whose lives the work aims to shape.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the author include a preface about a personal experience?\",\"answer\":\"The author uses a story about her brother and her family to explain how she began documenting, interpreting, and seeking change through an intimate, inquiry-based stance informed by love.\"}]","Intimate Inquiry: A Love-Based Approach to Qualitative Research | PDF",1792089410,43]