TY - JOUR
T1 - Theory Ain't Practice
T2 - Four Novice Researchers Navigate Dilemmas of Representation Within Immigrant Populations
AU - Aleixo, Marina
AU - Hansen, Sarah
AU - Horii, Sachiko
AU - Un, Silvy
PY - 2014/1
Y1 - 2014/1
N2 - This article illuminates instances in which four graduate students have struggled with issues of representation-of themselves and of immigrant participants-at their research sites and in their writing. These dilemmas are situated within the literature on the politics of representation in qualitative research. Although these dilemmas are not unique to novice researchers, how graduate students experience and work through the ethical grey spaces of ethnographic research is impacted by their status as emerging researchers-that is, as ethnographers transitioning from research in theory (idealism) to research in practice (reality). Although this paper does not offer hard and fast solutions to these dilemmas, it points to ways in which novice researchers may benefit from mentors when participating in reflexive communities.
AB - This article illuminates instances in which four graduate students have struggled with issues of representation-of themselves and of immigrant participants-at their research sites and in their writing. These dilemmas are situated within the literature on the politics of representation in qualitative research. Although these dilemmas are not unique to novice researchers, how graduate students experience and work through the ethical grey spaces of ethnographic research is impacted by their status as emerging researchers-that is, as ethnographers transitioning from research in theory (idealism) to research in practice (reality). Although this paper does not offer hard and fast solutions to these dilemmas, it points to ways in which novice researchers may benefit from mentors when participating in reflexive communities.
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U2 - 10.1080/15595692.2013.803465
DO - 10.1080/15595692.2013.803465
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84892387527
SN - 1559-5692
VL - 8
SP - 32
EP - 43
JO - Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education
JF - Diaspora, Indigenous, and Minority Education
IS - 1
ER -