Kapoor, Ambika;
Ambreen, Samyia;
Zhu, Yan;
(2023)
Agency, power and emotions: ethnographic note-taking in research with children.
International Journal of Research and Method in Education
10.1080/1743727X.2023.2196065.
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Abstract
Ethnographic note-taking in the field is often imbued with emotions, shaped by power relations and influenced by participants’ voice and agency. Though enough has been written about ethnography, discussions on the specific challenges of taking notes, particularly in research with children are limited. Drawing on three ethnographic field studies with children in schools in the UK, India and China, this article discusses fieldwork experiences to understand the challenges, dilemmas and complexities around note-taking in the field. Using a reflexive and intersectional lens, this article discusses the role of agency, power and emotions in the experiences of taking notes in child-centred research with children. It conceptualizes the need to understand the complexities when theories are operationalized in real-life research contexts.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Agency, power and emotions: ethnographic note-taking in research with children |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/1743727X.2023.2196065 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/1743727X.2023.2196065 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2023 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. The terms on which this article has been published allow the posting of the Accepted Manuscript in a repository by the author(s) or with their consent. |
| Keywords: | Agency, power, emotions, ethnographic fieldnotes, research with children. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Education > UCL Institute of Education > IOE - Education, Practice and Society |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10167677 |
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