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title: "Research"
description: "Research interests and selected public work."
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> Documentation Index
> Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mcasar.pages.dev/llms.txt
> Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.

# Research

Miguel Casar Rodriguez’s work connects critical qualitative inquiry with educational justice, youth participation, democracy and education.

## Selected research

The entries below use public source links already cited on this site. A fuller publication list will be added after it is reviewed.

- [Critical qualitative inquiry and youth participation](/research/critical-qualitative-inquiry/) — How lived experience, knowledge and power connect to educational justice in Miguel Casar Rodriguez’s work.
- [Nothing About Us Without Us](https://transformschools.ucla.edu/research/nothing-about-us-without-us-youth-voice-power-and-participation/) — Collaborative work on youth voice, power and participation in East Side Union. UCLA Center for the Transformation of Schools
- [Local Control in a Time of Change](https://gettingdowntofacts.com/reports/local-control-time-change-work-california-school-board-members) — A 2026 study of the work of California school board members. Getting Down to Facts · 2026

## Research interests

- How knowledge, power and lived experience shape education.
- How young people can participate as researchers and in decisions that affect their lives.
- How public schools and democratic governance relate to educational justice.

Source: https://mcasar.pages.dev/research/index.mdx