Research as Interacting Dialogic Processes: Implications for Reflexivity

Abstract: Research within a postmodern frame moves us into arenas where subjectivity is both assumed and appreciated. This framework provides an opportunity to attend to how subjectivity (of researcher[s] and of research participants) and inter-subjectivity (between/among researcher[s] and between researcher[s] and participants) can enhance the research process. In this paper, we explore a framework that involves one such model: an understanding of qualitative research as an interconnected and mutually influential series of dialogic processes. A dialogic framework allows us to view each major aspect of a research program as having, as an important hope, the creation of synergistic communication between or among participants. Because this approach relies on ideas about dialogic communication, it carries an intrinsic investment in the reflexivity of every conversant—i.e., every researcher and every participant. It emphasizes the reflexive value of conducting research in the context of a team o.... https://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/831

Object Details

• Location: Deutsche Nationalbibliothek Frankfurt am Main
• Extent: Online-Ressource
• Language: Englisch

References and Relationships

• Bibliographic citation: Research as Interacting Dialogic Processes: Implications for Reflexivity ; volume:3 ; number:3 ; day:30 ; month:09 ; year:2002 ; Forum qualitative Sozialforschung ; 3, Heft 3 (30.09.2002)

Contributors, Places and Time

• Creator: Russell, Glenda M. ; Kelly, Nancy H.

Further information

• DOI: 10.17169/fqs-3.3.831
• URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0203181
• Rights: Open Access; Der Zugriff auf das Objekt ist unbeschränkt möglich.
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