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Publication Date: 2024
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Researcher Reflexivity in Studying Elite Schooling: Old School Ties That Bind
Lucinda McKnight; Claire Charles; George Variyan
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), v37 n7 p1942-1955 2024
This article discusses the methodological challenges of researching elite boys' schooling, in a study involving interviewing alumni who attended these schools from the 1970s to the 2020s. In particular, through a feminist poststructuralist methodological framing, it considers the necessity for researcher reflexivity in engaging in research in such politically charged and publicly debated spaces. Through strategic interventions that require reflecting on researchers' own investments and entanglements in these spaces, resulting orientations to participants can be better understood. This suggests ways other researchers can engage in sustained and multiple opportunities for dialogue that potentially democratises, or at least reveals asymmetries in, research relationships.
Descriptors: Single Sex Schools, Males, Competitive Selection, Institutional Characteristics, Reputation, Selective Admission, Advantaged, Social Class, Alumni, Feminism, Research Methodology, Educational Research, Interpersonal Relationship, Reflection
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