A Question of Reflexivity in a Qualitative Study of South Asians in Education: Power, Knowledge and Shared Ethnicity

Autor/in	Abbas, Tahir
Titel	A Question of Reflexivity in a Qualitative Study of South Asians in Education: Power, Knowledge and Shared Ethnicity
Quelle	In: Ethnography and Education, 1 (2006) 3, S.319-332 (14 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745-7823
Schlagwörter	Ethnicity; Ideology; Researchers; Asians; Qualitative Research; Interpersonal Relationship; Interviews; Case Studies; Epistemology; Power Structure; Foreign Countries; Academic Achievement; Social Class; Gender Differences; Student Attitudes; Parent Attitudes; Teacher Attitudes; United Kingdom + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnizität; Ideologie; Researcher; Forscher; Asian; Asiat; Asiatin; Asiaten; Asiate; Qualitative Forschung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Case study; Fallstudie; Case Study; Erkenntnistheorie; Ausland; Schulleistung; Social classes; Soziale Klasse; Geschlechterkonflikt; Schülerverhalten; Elternverhalten; Lehrerverhalten; Großbritannien
Abstract	In a qualitative study of South Asians in education, methodological issues pertaining to the social interactions between the same-ethnicity researcher and researched are analysed and interpreted. Based on in-depth interviews with 89 South Asian school pupils and 25 South Asian parents, it was found that political ideology and shared ethnicity were a source of inspiration in how the same-ethnicity researcher generated answers to the research questions, but also a weakness in how they were potentially shaped by the very same factors. This paper suggests that for situations where the subject, the researcher and the researched are inextricably linked, there is the potential for both "good" and "harm" to the research. This paper provides a case study of the ontological and epistemological issues that can emerge in the research process, and how reflexivity facilitates the production of knowledge without it necessarily gaining or losing because of shared ethnicity. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10