To consider what a criticalist qualitative research methodology might look like for universities in the context of the contemporary COVID-19 crisis.,This polemical paper explores the rationale for a dramatic recasting of the approach needed in qualitative research methodology to address the challenges of the crisis-ridden times we live in. Broadly conceived of as an “evolving criticality”, to borrow from Kincheloe, the paper addresses the kind of disposition, orientation or state of mind required that provides the space and opportunities in universities within which this strategic methodological reinvention might occur. After explaining what a research methodology committed to the notion of “criticality” might look like, the paper argues that to enact this we need to start with the immediacy of our own academic work and then emanate to other public spheres.,The polemical exchange engaged in by this paper presents the underpinnings of how critical social science might be deployed in both reconceiving how we understand the purpose of research in universities and changing the nature of academic work.,These exist only in so far as university academics are prepared to embrace what is being argued for to change the status quo.,The broader critical social science methodology being argued for in this paper is using a wider framing to a form of critical ethnography that has the potential to enable academic workers to extricate themselves from the ruinous situation brought on by the neoliberal paradigm that has been so drastically exacerbated by COVID-19.,While the paper rehearses some existing ideas of critical social science, the novelty of the papers lies in the way these are applied to the COVID-19 crisis within which universities have become embroiled.

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危机时期大学将批判社会科学作为研究方法

考虑到在当代COVID-19危机的背景下，大学的批判性定性研究方法论是什么样的。，这篇极具争议的论文探讨了戏剧性地重塑定性研究方法论应对危机挑战所需方法的原理。从Kincheloe借来，广泛地被认为是“不断发展的关键性”，该论文探讨了需要的这种性情，取向或心态，为大学提供了战略性方法论创新的空间和机会可能会发生。在解释了致力于“临界”概念的研究方法之后，