... tensions, shaping how participants and institutions respond to their presence. In this context, the challenge of balancing personal identity with professional objectivity underscores the deeply emotional and ethical stakes of reflexivity. Far from being a passive or detached exercise, reflexivity emerges...

...Fatemeh Ershadi; Mahmood Reza Moradian Purpose This research investigated how Iranian English as a Forign Language (EFL) learners develop their cultural identities while studying at private language institutes. The study defined cultural identity as a complex process and used language learning...

...Mark Aldous Vicars Purpose In this paper, queerly contoured stories of trauma fold in the ambiguous and contradictory knowledges of the body. I posit that trauma-informed identities are not fabricated fictions and that they can sediment subjects into being and behaving in certain ways. Design...

...Aamir Jamal; Liza Lorenzetti; Swati Dhingra; Clive Baldwin; Heather Ganshorn Purpose Our thematic analysis of the academic literature on Canadian Muslim Youth aims to identify and describe the factors which contribute to the construction of identity among Muslim youth in Canada and make some...

..., which provide evidence of mindshift and emergent knowledge and teacher identity. Design/methodology/approach Often difficult to measure and trace, this work presents the emerging transformation of a pre-service teacher through ethnographic methodology, stories and artful practice. Findings...

...Stig-Börje Asplund; Héctor Pérez Prieto Purpose The purpose of this paper is to explore what conversation analysis has to offer when analysing a series of life story interviews aiming to capture how reading and texts are used in a rural working-class man’s identity construction. Design...

... with the epistemic field of qualitative research some trouble with the rules; and relinquishing a mimetic display of the methodological proper, I struggled to breach an understanding of researcher role and identity. I had spent too many years being the hyphenated Other to not hear differently (Fine, 1994). My...

... in this aspect of national and personal identity, each of the authors draws here on personal experiences with aspects of citizenship that are not noticeably present in the current national curriculum. Specifically, the three “citizenship snapshots” at the heart of this paper’s discussion and analysis – snapshots...

... maternal status. Findings – The paper found that the own maternal identities shaped the research process in a number of ways: it directed the research topic and access to research participants; it drove the method of data collection and analysis and it shaped how the authors interacted...

...Gabriela Coronado This paper is the result of a reflection on my personal experience while researching the politics of culture and identity in intercultural collaborations in Mexico. It deals with how autoethnography transformed my relationship with the way of doing research and particularly how...

..., incorporating the themes of memory, narrative and identity. By utilising the narrative inquiry research methodology, I have been able to combine the project and research in a symbiotic way. The method of narrative inquiry allows for a personal account of the research and by its very nature, being concerned...