Complicated shadows: a discussion of positionality within educational research

O'Neill, Daniel (2024) Complicated shadows: a discussion of positionality within educational research. Oxford Review of Education. ISSN 0305-4985

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Abstract

This paper comprises of a Socratic dialogue that explores the mix of advocacy, acceptance, apathy, confusion, and criticality often presented by new educational researchers as they encounter and navigate positionality in the first stages of their research projects. The fictionalised ancient form allows a vehicle to explore common debates and discussions with new researchers as they seek to accommodate to the demands of reflexivity. Concluding with an epilogue the author suggests the importance of forging a place for new educational researchers to thoughtfully engage with positionality, in the hope of avoiding the institutional petrification of such a vital methodological and epistemological approach

Item Type:	Article
Additional Information and Comments:	This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent.
Keywords:	positionality; reflexivity; method; methodology; alternative data-representation
Faculty / Department:	Faculty of Education and Social Sciences > School of Education
Depositing User:	Daniel O'Neill
Date Deposited:	21 May 2024 08:03
Last Modified:	12 Nov 2024 14:39
URI:	https://hira.hope.ac.uk/id/eprint/4250

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