Researching the Everyday Educational Lives of Low-Income Families

The Importance of Researcher and Participant Contexts

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ID8406083
AutoresEmma Wainwright (0000-0001-6490-7160, Brunel University of London, autor correspondente), Kate Hoskins (0000-0001-6360-8898, Brunel University of London), Refika Arabaci (Brunel University of London), Junqing Zhai (0000-0003-1810-7466, Zhejiang University), Jie Gao (0000-0002-9523-4541, University College London), Yuwei Xu (0000-0003-4210-9963, University of Nottingham)
Ano2025
Volume73
Fascículo1
Páginas5-25
Data de publicação2025-01-02
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoBritish Journal of Educational Studies (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0007-1005 • E-ISSN: 1467-8527
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00071005.2024.2378053
OpenAlexW4400922065
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas48

This paper highlights the importance of considering both researcher and participant contexts when exploring everyday educational lives. It emerges during a period of increasing and sustained social inequality in England, and against a backdrop of increasingly tight research timeframes and resources in higher education. Drawing on a project engaging low-income families in Greater London, the paper takes the everyday as its conceptual focus and questions how we can be critically attentive to everyday educational lives if we struggle to access and develop research relationships with particular social groups. We offer empirical insight into the hesitancies towards, and avoidances of, research participation that centre around knowledge, fear, and trust, and which are heightened concerns where aspects of family life, parenting, and children come to the fore. The paper considers how these can be mitigated in an academic environment where limited time and resourcing shape possibilities of research engagements and offers practical moves linked to research relationships, relevance and presence for how researchers can address these challenges to enable research to be more inclusive

Conceptual framework · Educational research · Empirical research · Epistemology · Everyday life · Low income · Pedagogy · Political science · Public relations · Relevance (law) · Social science · Sociology · Diverse Education Studies and Reforms · Parental Involvement in Education · Teacher Education and Leadership Studies