Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research (Social Research and Educational Studies Series)

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. Behind The 'cleansing' Of Socially Critical Research Accounts / John Smyth, Geoffrey Shacklock -- Writing The 'wrongs' Of Fieldwork : Confronting Our Own Research/writing Dilemmas In Urban Ethnographies / Michelle Fine, Lois Weis -- Critical Incidents In Action Inquiry / David Tripp -- Ideology And Critical Ethnography / Jesse Goodman -- Reciprocity In Critical Research? Some Unsettling Thoughts / Andrew Sparkes -- The Social Commitment Of The Educational Ethnographer : Notes On Fieldwork In Mexico And The Field Of Work In The United States / Bradley A. Levinson -- On Writing Reflexive Realist Narratives / Douglas Foley -- Journey From Exotic Horror To Bitter Wisdom : International Development And Research Efforts In Bosnia And Herzegovina / Noreen B. Garman -- In/forming Inside Nursing : Ethical Dilemmas In Critical Research / Annette Street -- On What Might Have Been : Some Reflections On Critical Multiculturalism / Stephen May -- Raising Consciousness About Reflection, Validity, And Meaning / Phil Francis Carspecken, Laurie Macgillivray -- Where Was I? Or Was I? / Barry Kanpol -- Critical Policy Scholarship : Reflections On The Integrity Of Knowledge And Research / Gerald Grace. Edited By Geoffrey Shacklock And John Smyth. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 4 Contents......Page 5 Acknowledgments......Page 8 Series Editor's Preface......Page 9 Behind the 'Cleansing' of Socially Critical Research Accounts......Page 10 Writing the 'Wrongs' of Fieldwork: Confronting Our Own Research/Writing Dilemmas in Urban Ethnographies......Page 22 Critical Incidents in Action Inquiry......Page 45 Ideology and Critical Ethnography......Page 59 Reciprocity in Critical Research? Some Unsettling Thoughts......Page 76 The Social Commitment of the Educational Ethnographer: Notes on Fieldwork in Mexico and the Field of Work in the United States......Page 92 On Writing Reflexive Realist Narratives......Page 119 Journey from Exotic Horror to Bitter Wisdom: International Development and Research Efforts in Bosnia and Herzegovina......Page 139 In/forming Inside Nursing: Ethical Dilemmas in Critical Research......Page 155 On What Might Have Been: Some Reflections on Critical Multiculturalism......Page 168 Raising Consciousness about Reflection, Validity, and Meaning......Page 180 Where Was I? Or Was I?......Page 200 Critical Policy Scholarship: Reflections on the Integrity of Knowledge and Research......Page 211 Notes on Contributors......Page 227 The idea for this collection on being reflexive about critical educational and social research, came from conversations we had on the personal struggle of doing research, and writing accounts of those struggles.