Walking the Methodological Tightrope

Researcher Dilemmas Inside an Urban School District in Times of Public Disinvestment

Dados Bibliográficos

ID2385663
AutoresAmy E Stich (0000-0002-1260-5088, University at Buffalo, NY, USA), Kristin Cipollone (University at Buffalo, NY, USA), Andrea Nikischer (0000-0002-5937-2613, University at Buffalo, NY, USA), L Wei (0000-0001-5740-6536), Lois Weis (0000-0001-9495-9025, University at Buffalo, NY, USA)
Ano2012
Volume18
Fascículo6
Páginas463-474
Data de publicação2012-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditoraSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800412442815
OpenAlexW2019777062
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas6
Referências citadas22

Though researcher dilemmas are not new to the pages of Qualitative Inquiry, we argue that the current contemporary context has both altered and intensified issues associated with conducting qualitative research within sites most affected by more recent social, political, and economic shift. Navigating such sites as researchers poses new questions and new "speed bumps," going well beyond those highlighted by Weis and Fine more than ten years ago. In this article, the authors revisit and extend the work by Weis and Fine using a set of informed reflections on engaging ethnographic research inside an iconic and beleaguered, large Northeastern, urban school district, a context that, we argue, establishes an increased range of new and largely unanticipated "speed bumps

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