Wainwright, Emma;
Hoskins, Kate;
Arabaci, Refika;
Zhai, Junqing;
Gao, Jie;
Xu, Yuwei;
(2024)
Researching the Everyday Educational Lives of Low-Income Families: The Importance of Researcher and Participant Contexts.
British Journal of Educational Studies
10.1080/00071005.2024.2378053.
(In press).
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Abstract
This paper highlights the importance of considering both researcher and participant contexts when exploring everyday educational lives. It emerges during a period of increasing and sustained social inequality in England, and against a backdrop of increasingly tight research timeframes and resources in higher education. Drawing on a project engaging low-income families in Greater London, the paper takes the everyday as its conceptual focus and questions how we can be critically attentive to everyday educational lives if we struggle to access and develop research relationships with particular social groups. We offer empirical insight into the hesitancies towards, and avoidances of, research participation that centre around knowledge, fear, and trust, and which are heightened concerns where aspects of family life, parenting, and children come to the fore. The paper considers how these can be mitigated in an academic environment where limited time and resourcing shape possibilities of research engagements and offers practical moves linked to research relationships, relevance and presence for how researchers can address these challenges to enable research to be more inclusive.
| Type: | Article |
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| Title: | Researching the Everyday Educational Lives of Low-Income Families: The Importance of Researcher and Participant Contexts |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/00071005.2024.2378053 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00071005.2024.2378053 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | Copyright © 2024 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 License (http:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. 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: | Inclusive research, research engagement, low-income families, research participation, parents, funding context |
| 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 - Learning and Leadership |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10197076 |
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