Critical Reflections on Research Methods

Doris S. Warriner is Associate Professor of English, Arizona State University, USA. Her research interests include applied linguistics, literacy studies, and research methods.Martha Bigelow is Professor in Second Language Education, University of Minnesota, USA. Her research interests include language teacher education and refugee education.

• Part I: Language, Culture and IdentityChapter 1. Chatwara S. Duran: “I Have So Many Things to Tell You, but I Don’t Know English”: Linguistic Challenges and Language BrokeringChapter 2. Ayfer K. Gokalp: Revisiting our Understandings in Ethnographic ResearchChapter 3. Christopher Browder: The Trouble with Operationalizing People: My Research with Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)Chapter 4. Emily Feuerherm: A Researcher’s Coming-of-Age Through Participatory Action Research: The Intersection of Cultures, Identities and InstitutionsPart II: Researcher Roles and ReciprocityChapter 5. Rosalva Lagunas: Doing Ethnographic Research as an Insider-Outsider: Reflections on Building Relationships and Doing ReciprocityChapter 6. Sarah Young Knowles: Researcher-Participant Relationships in Cross-Language Research: Becoming Cultural and Linguistic InsidersChapter 7. Nimo Abdi: Researching From the Margin: Challenges and Tensions of Doing Research within One’s Own Refugee CommunityChapter 8. Daisy E. Fredricks: Working Towards and Humanizing Research Stance: Reflections on Modifying the Interview ProcessPart III: Relationships, Ethics, Power and EquityChapter 9. Katie Bernstein: Ethics in Practice and Answerability in Complex, Multiparticipant StudiesChapter 10. Nicole Pettitt: Weaving Reciprocity in Research with(In) Immigrant and Refugee CommunitiesChapter 11. Kristen Perry: Anonymity, Vulnerability and Informed Consent: An Ethical-Methodological TaleChapter 12. Katherine E. Morelli and Doris S. Warriner: The Emotional Dimensions of Qualitative Community-Driven Research: How Interactions and Relationships Shape Processes of Knowledge ProductionChapter 13. Martha Bigelow, Jenna Cushing-Leubner, Mikow Hang, Luis Ortega, Shannon Pergament, Amy Shanafelt and Michele Allen: Perspectives on Power and Equity in Community Based Participatory Action Research Projects

This gem of a book offers vivid and trenchant insights regarding the ongoing, ubiquitous ethical challenges inherent in qualitative research. The chapters reveal research dilemmas, scrutinize how linguistic and social inequalities shape research processes, and explore more transparent and humanizing approaches to data collection, analysis, and presentation.