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About Pengfei Zhao
Pengfei Zhao is a critical researcher and qualitative research methodologist based at McGill University. She is currently working on a book manuscript studying the coming-of-age experience of rural Chinese youth during and right after the Cultural Revolution.NBN Episodes hosted by Pengfei:
July 12, 2023
Diversity and the Transition to Adulthood in America
How do children and adolescents transition to adulthood in today’s America? How have American society’s entrenching economic inequality and increasing…
July 11, 2023
Study Gods
We understand very little about how elite individuals and families operate in everyday life to maintain their privileged statuses, as many of these st…
March 3, 2022
Doing Qualitative Research in a Digital World
Whether you like it or not, the pandemic has pushed us to make many changes in our life, from working from home to following all the mitigation measur…
December 28, 2021
English Learners at Home and at School
This episode of the New Books in Education features English Learners at Home and at School: Stories and Strategies (Harvard Education Press, 2021) by …
December 27, 2021
Schools Under Siege
Much has been reported and discussed about the hotly debated issue of immigration enforcement, yet a question is still to be explored: What is the imp…
April 20, 2021
Equity and Quality in Digital Learning
The COVID19 pandemic has profoundly changed the landscape of K-12 education in our society. Last March, many states closed their brick-and-mortar scho…
January 11, 2021
Walking with Strangers
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Barbara Dennis of Indiana University on her new ethnography, Walking with Strangers: Critical Ethnography and Educat…
July 30, 2020
Looking for Insight, Transformation, and Learning in Online Talk
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Trena Paulus of East Tennessee State University and Dr. Alyssa Wise of New York University on their new book, Lookin…
July 17, 2020
On My Own
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Xueli Wang from the University of Wisconsin-Madison on her new book, “On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Buildi…
June 5, 2020
Schooling for Critical Consciousness
In this episode, I speak with Dr. Scott Seider from Boston College and Dr. Daren Graves from Simmons University on their new book, Schooling for Criti…
May 13, 2019
Raising Race Questions
In this episode, I talked with Ali Michael on her award-winning book, Raising Race Questions: Whiteness and Inquiry in Education (Teachers College Pre…
May 3, 2019
Spark
In this episode, I talked with Patricia Leavy on her new book, Spark (The Guilford Press, 2019). The book is a highly original novel about an unexpect…
November 27, 2018
Understanding Narrative Inquiry
In today’s episode, I talked with Dr. Jeong-Hee Kim about her new book, Understanding Narrative Inquiry: The Crafting and Analysis of Stories as Resea…
November 16, 2018
Just Research in Contentious Times
What can a researcher do to promote social justice? A conventional image of a researcher describes her staying in the ivory tower for most of the time…
September 13, 2018
Discursive Perspectives on Education Policy and Implementation
The study of education policy is a scholarly field that sheds light on important debates and controversies revolving around education policy and its i…
June 18, 2018
The Responsible Methodologist
In this episode, I speak with Aaron M. Kuntz about his book, The Responsible Methodologist: Inquiry, Truth-Telling, and Social Justice (Left Coast Pre…
May 16, 2018
Low-Fat Love Stories
Patricia Leavy and Victoria Scotti's Low-Fat Love Stories (Sense Publishers, 2017) is a collection of short stories and artistic portraits focusing on…
February 27, 2018
Love in the Time of Ethnography
Love in the Time of Ethnography: Essays on Connection as a Focus and Basis for Research (Rowman and Littlefield, 2017) is edited by Lucinda Carspecken…
November 18, 2017
Youth Encounter Programs in Israel
In her new book, Youth Encounter Programs in Israel: Pedagogy, Identity and Social Change (Syracuse University Press, 2017), Karen Ross conducts an in…