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Abstract
Nonprofit Management Education has a unique opportunity to incorporate critical qualitative inquiry into curriculum to better prepare its graduates for civil society. Critical qualitative inquiry centers the role of power in understanding social situations through methodological approaches. Five elements of critical qualitative inquiry are presented: informed by past and present contexts, problematizing power, instruments for social change and action, methodological approaches for communities, and social just research. How to apply critical qualitative inquiry into nonprofit education curriculum is provided to support student learning, and encourage alternative and more critical approaches to the field.
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
A version of this article was presented at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organizations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) conference on November 18, 2016.
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A. Emiko Blalock
A. Emiko Blalock is a graduate research assistant and Ph.D. Candidate at Michigan State University in Higher, Adult, and Lifelong Education. Previous to her position at Michigan State University, she was at Seattle University as an instructor and member of the advisory committee for nonprofit management and leadership program, and a practitioner in the nonprofit sector. Her research interests include faculty issues in U.S. higher education, critical perspectives in higher education, and organizational change in higher education.