Readings That Rock Our Worlds. (December 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Bridges-Rhoads, Sarah; Hughes, Hilary E.; Van Cleave, Jessica
• Other Names: Van Cleave Jessica guest-editor.; Bridges-Rhoads Sarah guest-editor.; Hughes Hilary E. guest-editor.
• Is Part Of: Qualitative inquiry. Volume 24:Number 10(2018)
• Page Start: 817
• Page End: 837
• Publication Date: 2018-12
• Subjects: reading -- doctoral education -- work/think/play -- philosophy; Social sciences -- Methodology -- Periodicals; Social sciences -- Research -- Periodicals; 300.72
• DOI: 10.1177/1077800418767202
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1077-8004

Abstract

During doctoral programs, many scholars have experiences with texts that disrupt, that interrupt, that somehow open up unforeseen ways of being, thinking, feeling, and knowing. In this article, we provide short contributions from a wide swath of scholars who explore the many ways reading can change everything, electrifying us with possibilities of what might be thinkable now, and terrifying us because ideas and knowledge that we'd held dear all of a sudden feel tenuous and fragile. In short, reading rocks our worlds and, as a result, shapes the kind of inquiry we do.