Evaluating Value(s): Issues in and Implications of Educational Research Significance and Researcher Identity
Special Issue of International Journal of Pedagogies & Learning
Volume 4 Issue 1 January 2008
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A special issue of the International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning
Edited by Linda De George-Walker and Patrick Alan Danaher
Published in January 2008
Increasing attention is being paid to the identities and subjectivities of educational researchers. Rather than being neutral ciphers and/or objective and disinterested observers, researchers are understood as vital participants in the research enterprise and as having highly developed interests in the enactment and outcomes of research projects.
A crucial corollary of this understanding is the proposition that researchers must be reflective and reflexive about their roles and responsibilities, and open and transparent about their interests and motivations, in such projects. Effective and powerful research often entails researchers learning as much about themselves - their own ethics and politics, values and worldviews - as about the other research participants. At the same time, research that is exclusively or primarily about the researcher might not necessarily be either effective or powerful.
The International Journal of Pedagogies and Learning encapsulates and synthesises such a rich diversity of strategies, issues, concepts and arguments about educational philosophy, policy and practice that range broadly across contexts, countries and sectors.
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