The influence of researcher identity on ethnographies in multiracial schools

Chikkatur, Anita; Jones-Walker, Cheryl

doi:10.1080/09518398.2012.666292

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“…They both self-identify as Hispanic women and were also computer science undergraduate students. Their proximity to the participants (in academic standing and gender and ethnic identity), we suspect helped the participants be more comfortable in their recounting of their experiences in computer science [1]. They conducted all of the in-depth interviews with the participants.…”

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What is a Computer Scientist?

Lopez

Ross

Garcia

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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Underrepresentation of Black and Hispanic women in computer science is a long-standing problem that looks bleak at every levelundergraduate and graduate. This is prompting scholars to explore reasons for these low participation rates. One framework used to understand participation and persistence in STEM fields is identity. Prior work in computer science education suggest that identity is a strong indicator of persistence in these fields. However, it is hard to understand students' perception of identity without also understanding ontological beliefs with regards to a computer scientist. In this study, we explore the nature of a computer scientist. Guided by social identity theory, we designed a study that asked students to describe their definition or ontological belief of what constitutes a computer scientist in contrast to their ability to ascribe a computer science identity to self. Leveraging qualitative methods, we interviewed n= 24 women in computer science (Black and Hispanic, undergraduate and graduate students), in order to explore the role their ontological beliefs had on their computer science identity salience. The research questions guiding this work are: (1) How do Black and Hispanic women describe or define computer scientists? (2) What impact does this definition have on Black and Hispanic women's ability to claim a computing identity? Results suggest that the wide variation in definitions has a negative impact on computer science identity salience. The findings from this work suggest that computing should consider the impacts of the current messaging of what constitutes a computer scientist.

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Section: Positionality Statementmentioning

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What is a Computer Scientist?

Lopez

Ross

Garcia

et al. 2022

Proceedings of the 53rd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education

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“…My positionality shaped my data collection and analysis. As Chikkatur and Jones‐Walker (2013) argued, a researcher's assumed and ascribed identities such as race, and their life experiences enacted through these identities, can influence collection and interpretation of ethnographic data. In schools, while observing and taking notes, I occasionally interacted with the youth, their classmates, and their teachers without participating in the teaching and learning activities.…”

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Normalization of English and Identity Construction of Refugee Background Youth from Burma/Myanmar in US Schools

Tun

2022

Anthropology & Edu Quarterly

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This paper is based on the ethnographic multiple case study of four refugee background youths from Burma at four different schools in a midwestern urban school district in the US. My research finds that the normalization of English constructed the focal youths' language-related identities. I also argue that through this normalization, language difference between school and home became a difference that marginalized the focal youth in their class and racialized their subjectivity.[Education policy, English learner, language and identity, refugee education]

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“…Certain identification markers, such as gender, nationality, or ‘race’ of female anthropologists can generate areas of conflict by introducing elements that challenge the research participants’ firmly held convictions. As Chikkatur and Jones-Walker (2013: 831) note, ‘understanding of racial and gendered identities both as embodied and lived and as affinities, interests and commitments can help illuminate the role of researcher identity in ethnographic research’. In accordance with Enguix (2014), as she highlights in the contexts of study with gays, travestis tend to de-eroticize female researchers (and also gay male researchers; see also Kulick, 1998), ‘thus freeing fieldwork from all kinds of sexual tensions’ (Enguix, 2014: 85).…”

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“…Wacquant (2004) uses the term ‘carnal sociology’ to convey the total immersion of the researcher, body and soul, in the field. It is there where our ‘identities – particularly those that we visibly embody – do matter’ (Chikkatur and Jones-Walker, 2013: 832). In this article I will analyse the impact of the researcher’s own corporeality on the ethnographic process.…”

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Towards a carnal anthropology: reflections of an ‘imperfect’ anthropologist

Vartabedian

2015

Qualitative Research

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This article offers an exploration into the ways in which the researcher's body enters into a permanent dialogue with the practices and the discourses of the research participants, and is transformed into an essential investigative tool. Based on my ethnographic experience amongst a group of Brazilian travesti sex workers, I will show how my own 'imperfect' body, according to the travesti canons of feminine aesthetics, became an element that awarded me visibility and served as a bridge to interaction with them. At the same time, I was accidentally interpreted by the group as the 'photographer'. From this corporeal interaction, and via the medium of the camera, I was able to legitimize my position amongst travestis and open a new field of theoretical enquiry, developing, therefore, Wacquant's proposal (2004) on a 'corporeal sociology' in the understanding of the active role that the body takes in the research process.

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The influence of researcher identity on ethnographies in multiracial schools

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

What is a Computer Scientist?

What is a Computer Scientist?

Normalization of English and Identity Construction of Refugee Background Youth from Burma/Myanmar in US Schools

Towards a carnal anthropology: reflections of an ‘imperfect’ anthropologist

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