Inside out: what we (don’t) talk about when we talk about research

Venka Simovska; Laila Colding Lagermann; Heba Salah Y Abduljalil; Line Lerche Mørck; Dorte Kousholt

doi:10.1177/1468794117749165

Inside out: what we (don’t) talk about when we talk about research

Venka Simovska, Laila Colding Lagermann, Heba Salah Y Abduljalil, Line Lerche Mørck, Dorte Kousholt

Danish School of Education - Educational Psychology, Emdrup

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In this article, we discuss issues that are rarely (if ever) talked about in research: experiences of deep insight and inspiration, of meaning-making, of embodied passion and of excitement related to the practice of engaging in qualitative research and of being a qualitative researcher. These are the ‘aha’ moments or ‘eureka’ experiences. Drawing on Frigga Haug’s collective memory work, five individual memories were articulated as text and analysed collectively over a period of six months. By analytically deploying the concept of generativity, we portray the tensions, dynamics and interactions that (co)create aha moments and movements as a way of enacting situated research(er) agency and of challenging the neoliberal instrumentalisation of research and researchers. Our aim is to contribute to visualizing and fostering small but powerful steps in innovative, good quality research and bringing desire and passion (back) into research practice.

Original language	English
Journal	Qualitative Research
Volume	19
Issue	2
Pages (from-to)	113-130
Number of pages	18
ISSN	1468-7941
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/1468794117749165
Publication status	Published - 2019

Keywords

Collective Memory
Qualitative Research
Mo(ve)ments
Generativity
Analysis
generativity in research
research(er) agency
aha
collective memory work
mo(ve)ment
Forskningsmetode
Videregående uddannelse

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