Miguel Casar Rodriguez is an educator, activist scholar and Assistant Professor of Qualitative Research at the University of Alabama. His work connects critical qualitative inquiry with educational justice, asking how young people and communities can question the conditions around them and help shape more just futures.
me.casarr@gmail.comResearch and commitments
- Critical qualitative research. Studying how knowledge, power and lived experience shape education.
- Youth participation. Working with young people as researchers and participants in decisions that affect their lives.
- Democracy and education. Examining public schools, democratic governance and possibilities for educational justice.
His collaborative work includes youth voice, power and participation in East Side Union and a 2026 study of California school board members.
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Critical qualitative inquiry and youth participation
How lived experience, knowledge and power connect to educational justice in Miguel Casar Rodriguez’s work.
Nothing About Us Without Us
Collaborative work on youth voice, power and participation in East Side Union.
Local Control in a Time of Change
A 2026 study of the work of California school board members.