Qualitative Transparency Deliberations

From the moderators: What can ethnographers generally not share about their research process and why can they not share those things? I am pasting in below a piece I wrote for the QMMR Symposium on Transparency in Qualitative and Multi-Method Research, in the Spring 2015 issue, under the title, &qu...

This is beautifully said. I also believe that my work would not be possible if I had to ask the people I spent time with to gather data had to give me permission to make the transcriptions of our conversations publicly accessible. I recently completed a project that required that I repeatedly walked...

I like the idea of replacing transparency with explicitness, too.

Prof. Majic makes a great point here. I think it is important that we consider our work not as something that we do to the public but instead as something that we do as fellow residents or citizens. I say this because I believe an original and important role of higher education is to improve the hum...