Being Reflexive in Critical and Social Educational Research

This book brings together a collection of case studies and readings on the subject of doing research in education. It differs from other texts in taking a personal view of the experience of doing research. Each author presents a reflexive account of the issues and dilemmas as they have lived through them during the undertaking of educational research. The collection fills the space often referred to in critical research as the phenomenon of the 'missing researcher'. Coming from the researcher's own perspectives, their positions are revealed within a wider space that can be personal, political, social and reflexive. With this approach, many issues such as ethics, gender, race, validity, reciprocity, sexuality, class, voice, empowerment, authorship and readership are given a much needed airing.

Geoffrey Shacklock is Research Associate with the Flinders Institute for the Study of Teaching, at the Flinders University of South Australia. John Smyth is Foundation Professor of Teacher Education at the Flinders University of South Australia, and Associate Dean (Research). He is also Director of the Flinders Institute for the Study of Teaching.