Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research

by Geoffrey Shacklock (Editor), John Smyth (Editor)

Overview

This text is a collection of case studies and readings on the subject of doing research in education. It takes a personal view of the experience of doing research. Each author presents a reflexive account of the issues and dilemmas as they have lived through them during the undertaking of educational research. Coming from the researcher's own perspectives, their positions are revealed within a wider space that can be personal, political, social and refexive. With this approach, many issues such as ethics, gender, race, validity, reciprocity, sexuality, class, voice, empowerment, authorship and readership are given an airing.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781135710514
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	11/01/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	240
File size:	518 KB

About the Author

Geoffrey Shacklock, John Smyth

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments, Series Editor’s Preface, 1 Behind the ‘Cleansing’ of Socially Critical Research Accounts, 2 Writing the ‘Wrongs’ of Fieldwork: Confronting Our Own Research/ Writing Dilemmas in Urban Ethnographies, 3 Critical Incidents in Action Inquiry, 4 Ideology and Critical Ethnography, 5 Reciprocity in Critical Research? Some Unsettling Thoughts, 6 The Social Commitment of the Educational Ethnographer: Notes on Fieldwork in Mexico and the Field of Work in the United, 7 On Writing Reflexive Realist Narratives, 8 Journey from Exotic Horror to Bitter Wisdom: International Development and Research Efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 9 In/forming Inside Nursing: Ethical Dilemmas in Critical Research, 10 On What Might Have Been: Some Reflections on Critical Multiculturalism, 11 Raising Consciousness about Reflection, Validity, and Meaning, 12 Where Was I? Or Was I?, 13 Critical Policy Scholarship: Reflections on the Integrity of Knowledge and Research, Notes on Contributors, Index

Editorial Reviews

'... many issues such as ethics, gender, race, validity, reciprocity, sexuality, class, voice, empowerment, authorship, and readership are given a much needed airing.' - Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society

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