Navigating the nexus of subjectivity and trust in researcher/participant relationships

Bibliographic Data

ID7638144
AuthorsJanice Kroeger (0000-0002-2415-1220, Curriculum & Instruction, Education, Health & Human Services Kent State University Kent Ohio USA, corresponding author), Holli Vah Seliskar (College of Social & Behavioral Sciences, Graduate Public Safety & Public Administration Programs, Undergraduate Fire Science and Emergency Management Programs Purdue University Global West Lafayette Indiana USA)
Year2024
Volume55
Issue1
Pages84-97
Publication date2024-03-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueAnthropology & Education Quarterly (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0161-7761 • E-ISSN: 1548-1492
PublisherWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/aeq.12479
OpenAlexW4386253909
LanguageEN
References cited24

We describe our decision points to disclose parts of our personal selves while building trust with vulnerable populations in schools during ethnographic studies. Finding how our subjective identities were similar to and different than those of our participants helped us to better understand the participants' lives. We argue in this article that the introspection created by negotiating subjectivities in our contrasting examples of intersectionality taught us more about structural inequality in schools than we learned via ethnographic data collection methods alone

Epistemology · Ethnography · Intersectionality · Introspection · Negotiation · Participant observation · Reflexivity · Social science · Sociology · Subjectivity · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Gender Studies · Participatory Visual Research Methods · Psychology · Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics · Social Psychology

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