Exploring the researcher-participant relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual context through reflexivity

In this paper I explore the notion of reflexivity in two main domains. In the first, I explore my struggles as a trained objective, positivist researcher trying to embrace and appreciate subjective qualitative research practices. In the second section, I explore the dynamic relationship between myse...

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Main Author: S., Renganathan
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Language:English
Published: 2009
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description In this paper I explore the notion of reflexivity in two main domains. In the first, I explore my struggles as a trained objective, positivist researcher trying to embrace and appreciate subjective qualitative research practices. In the second section, I explore the dynamic relationship between myself, the researcher and my participants, focusing on issues related to ethnicity and power. Generally, research that explores ethnicity and power relationships commonly depicts the researcher as the privileged self compared with the participants as the marginalised other. However, in this paper I illustrate how this relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual research context is much more complex and multifaceted than usually acknowledged. Moreover, this was further complicated by the researcher's own experience in relation to the issue under investigation, which was different from that of the participants. © RMIT Publishing.
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spelling oai:scholars.utp.edu.my:1882017-01-19T08:25:55Z http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/188/ Exploring the researcher-participant relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual context through reflexivity S., Renganathan PE English P Philology. Linguistics In this paper I explore the notion of reflexivity in two main domains. In the first, I explore my struggles as a trained objective, positivist researcher trying to embrace and appreciate subjective qualitative research practices. In the second section, I explore the dynamic relationship between myself, the researcher and my participants, focusing on issues related to ethnicity and power. Generally, research that explores ethnicity and power relationships commonly depicts the researcher as the privileged self compared with the participants as the marginalised other. However, in this paper I illustrate how this relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual research context is much more complex and multifaceted than usually acknowledged. Moreover, this was further complicated by the researcher's own experience in relation to the issue under investigation, which was different from that of the participants. © RMIT Publishing. 2009 Citation Index Journal NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en http://scholars.utp.edu.my/id/eprint/188/1/paper.pdf S., Renganathan (2009) Exploring the researcher-participant relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual context through reflexivity. [Citation Index Journal] http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?eid=2-s2.0-70849086807&partnerID=40&md5=74d02faa7216f505b0cb484631f7dca3
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title Exploring the researcher-participant relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual context through reflexivity
title_full Exploring the researcher-participant relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual context through reflexivity
title_fullStr Exploring the researcher-participant relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual context through reflexivity
title_full_unstemmed Exploring the researcher-participant relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual context through reflexivity
title_short Exploring the researcher-participant relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual context through reflexivity
title_sort exploring the researcher-participant relationship in a multiethnic, multicultural and multilingual context through reflexivity
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