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Becoming a Reflexive Researcher: Using Our Selves in Research.


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2004-016275

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Becoming a reflexive (theory) reflexive - A relation R is reflexive if, for all x, x R x.

Equivalence relations, pre-orders, partial orders and total orders are all reflexive.
 researcher; using our selves in research.

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Jessica Kingsley Pub., [c]2004

284 p.

$32.95 (pa)

Etherington (U. of Bristol) uses several narratives, including her own research diary and conversations with students and academics to demonstrate the way reflexive research works in practice. Illustrating her points with poetry, paintings, metaphors and dreams, she suggests that recognizing the role of self in research can open up opportunities for creative and personal transformations. She also explores the use of reflexivity re·flex·ive  
adj.
1. Directed back on itself.

2. Grammar
a. Of, relating to, or being a verb having an identical subject and direct object, as dressed in the sentence She dressed herself.
 in counseling and psychotherapy psychotherapy, treatment of mental and emotional disorders using psychological methods. Psychotherapy, thus, does not include physiological interventions, such as drug therapy or electroconvulsive therapy, although it may be used in combination with such methods.  practice and research.
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Title Annotation:PSYCHOLOGY
Publication:Reference & Research Book News
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Date:Aug 1, 2005
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