In Search of Subjectivity—One&#039;s Own

In Search of Subjectivity—One's Own

Title: In Search of Subjectivity—One's Own
Abstract/Description: It is no more useful for researchers to acknowledge simply that subjectivity is an invariable component of their research than it is for them to assert that their ideal is to achieve objectivity. Acknowledgments and assertions are not sufficient. Beginning with the premise that subjectivity is inevitable, this paper argues that researchers should systematically seek out their subjectivity, not retrospectively when the data have been collected and the analysis is complete, but while their research is actively in progress. The purpose of doing so is to enable researchers to be aware of how their subjectivity may be shaping their inquiry and its outcomes. In this paper I demonstrate the pursuit of my subjectivity in the course of year-long fieldwork in a multiethnic high school.
Author/creator: Peshkin, Alan
Date: 1988
In publication: Educational Researcher
Volume: 17
Issue: 7
Pages: 17-21
Resource type: en Research/Scholarly Media
Resource status/form: en Published Text
Scholarship genre: en Theoretical
Language: en
ISSN: 0013-189X
DOI: 10.3102/0013189X017007017
URL: Official Publisher's Webpage (SAGE Journals)
Citation: Peshkin, A. (1988). In Search of Subjectivity—One’s Own. Educational Researcher, 17(7), 17–21. https://doi.org/10.3102/0013189X017007017
Cited in: Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research

Item sets: OB Citations - Equity and Improvement: Engaging Communities in Educational Research

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