"If You Weren't Researching Me and a Friend . . ." The Mobius of Friendship and Mentorship as Methodological Approaches to Qualitative Research

Autor/inn/en	Sassi, Kelly; Thomas, Ebony Elizabeth
Titel	"If You Weren't Researching Me and a Friend . . ." The Mobius of Friendship and Mentorship as Methodological Approaches to Qualitative Research
Quelle	In: Qualitative Inquiry, 18 (2012) 10, S.830-842 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1077-8004
DOI	10.1177/1077800412456958
Schlagwörter	Mentors; Friendship; Research Methodology; Qualitative Research; Educational Research; Socialization; Graduate Students; Secondary School Teachers; Grade 9; American Indian Literature; English Instruction; Faculty Development + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Freundschaft; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Qualitative Forschung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; Socialisation; Sozialisation; Graduate Study; Student; Students; Aufbaustudium; Graduiertenstudium; Hauptstudium; Studentin; School year 09; 9. Schuljahr; Schuljahr 09; English langauage lessons; Englischunterricht
Abstract	This article explores the affordances and risks of practicing friendship and mentorship as methodological approaches in two qualitative studies: (a) the mentor's study in a diverse 9th grade classroom and (b) the protege's subsequent study of teacher professional development in the same school. Friendship methodology, as theorized by Tillmann and others, is extended to include protection and mentoring. The effect of mentoring is demonstrated through examples of the former protege's own research. Explosive moments in each study demonstrate how research can be analyzed and the course of the research projects influenced within a friendship/mentorship context. Like friendship-as-method, mentorship as methodology can result in rich data, but there is also the potential for more transparent and rigorous data analysis when the researcher is a mentor because the mentor can model research skills for the protege-participant. Thus, mentorship as methodology socializes peers into the conventions of qualitative research. (Contains 7 notes.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10