Grasping at Methodological Understanding: A Cautionary Tale from Insider Research

Autor/in	Drake, Pat
Titel	Grasping at Methodological Understanding: A Cautionary Tale from Insider Research
Quelle	In: International Journal of Research & Method in Education, 33 (2010) 1, S.85-99 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1743-727X
Schlagwörter	Foreign Countries; Doctoral Programs; Researchers; Participatory Research; Research Methodology; College Mathematics; Mathematics Instruction; Evaluation Problems; Conflict of Interest; Interviews; Politics of Education; Perspective Taking; Stopouts; Student Journals; Time Perspective; Content Analysis; Ethics; Reflection; Authors; Writing (Composition); Emotional Response; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ausland; Doktorandenprogramm; Researcher; Forscher; Forschungstätigkeit; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Interessenkonflikt; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Educational policy; Bildungspolitik; Zukunftsperspektive; Ausstieg; Studentenzeitung; Zeitbezug; Inhaltsanalyse; Ethik; Author; Autor; Autorin; Schreibübung; Emotionales Verhalten; Großbritannien
Abstract	This article offers an account of a doctoral insider research project that became problematic. The project was investigating mathematics teaching in a university in the UK, and by contrasting the research account with research diary entries pertaining to two interviewees, different interpretations of the interview data are evident. These differences offer illustrations of four aspects of the problematics of interviewing as follows: (1) personal relations and expectations position everyone in the interview; (2) the motivation for the research affects what the researcher learns; (3) the same material generates accounts that emphasize different things; and (4) things happen in people's heads during the interviews that are not recorded. The argument developed by considering the examples is that authorial voice is constructed out of decisions regarding the data together with considerations regarding the researcher's position. The validity of insider research requires reflexive consideration of the researcher's position, and this is especially pertinent in the case of research undertaken by practitioner researchers on professional doctorates. (Contains 6 figures.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10