Critical Reflections on Research Methods

Part I: Language, Culture and Identity

Chapter 1. Chatwara S. Duran: "I Have So Many Things to Tell You, but I Don't Know English": Linguistic Challenges and Language Brokering

Chapter 2. Ayfer K. Gokalp: Revisiting our Understandings in Ethnographic Research

Chapter 3. Christopher Browder: The Trouble with Operationalizing People: My Research with Students with Limited or Interrupted Formal Education (SLIFE)

Chapter 4. Emily Feuerherm: A Researcher's Coming-of-Age Through Participatory Action Research: The Intersection of Cultures, Identities and Institutions

Part II: Researcher Roles and Reciprocity

Chapter 5. Rosalva Lagunas: Doing Ethnographic Research as an Insider-Outsider: Reflections on Building Relationships and Doing Reciprocity

Chapter 6. Sarah Young Knowles: Researcher-Participant Relationships in Cross-Language Research: Becoming Cultural and Linguistic Insiders

Chapter 7. Nimo Abdi: Researching From the Margin: Challenges and Tensions of Doing Research within One's Own Refugee Community

Chapter 8. Daisy E. Fredricks: Working Towards and Humanizing Research Stance: Reflections on Modifying the Interview Process

Part III: Relationships, Ethics, Power and Equity

Chapter 9. Katie Bernstein: Ethics in Practice and Answerability in Complex, Multiparticipant Studies

Chapter 10. Nicole Pettitt: Weaving Reciprocity in Research with(In) Immigrant and Refugee Communities

Chapter 11. Kristen Perry: Anonymity, Vulnerability and Informed Consent: An Ethical-Methodological Tale

Chapter 12. Katherine E. Morelli and Doris S. Warriner: The Emotional Dimensions of Qualitative Community-Driven Research: How Interactions and Relationships Shape Processes of Knowledge Production

Chapter 13. Martha Bigelow, Jenna Cushing-Leubner, Mikow Hang, Luis Ortega, Shannon Pergament, Amy Shanafelt and Michele Allen: Perspectives on Power and Equity in Community Based Participatory Action Research Projects