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Refuse thy name? Critical reflections on the convention of masking place in rural educational research.
- Source :
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE); Oct2021, Vol. 34 Issue 9, p790-799, 10p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
-
Abstract
- Consistent with their treatment of individual participants, educational researchers regularly use pseudonyms to reference their study sites. The rationales, strategies, and implications of masking places may differ from those for masking people. However, both practices are so pervasive as to have become unexamined defaults, and they are assumed as methodological and ethical steps taken because little good can be imagined from actually naming our study sites or participants. Drawing on ethnographic work I conducted in Garden City, Kansas, I consider how unmasking the specific place I researched rather than referring to a place like this place mattered through my fieldwork, writing, and dissemination processes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- ANONYMS & pseudonyms
RURAL education
FIELDWORK (Educational method)
ETHNOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 09518398
- Volume :
- 34
- Issue :
- 9
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE)
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 152758824
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2021.1956624