eprintid: 10001572 rev_number: 27 eprint_status: archive userid: 587 source: pure dir: disk0/00/00/15/72 datestamp: 2010-03-11 16:23:09 lastmod: 2017-12-07 21:05:02 status_changed: 2010-03-11 16:23:09 type: article metadata_visibility: show item_issues_count: 0 creators_name: Lefstein, Adam creators_id: a.lefstein@ioe.ac.uk title: Problematising researcher-respondent relations through exploration of communicative stance ispublished: pub divisions: B14 note: This is an electronic version of an article published in Lefstein, Adam (2010) Problematising researcher-respondent relations through exploration of communicative stance. Ethnography and Education, 5 (1). pp. 81-96. Ethnography and Education is available online at: http://www.informaworld.com/10.1080/17457821003768489 abstract: To what extent and in what ways should researchers share their views with research participants during ethnographic fieldwork? This article discusses the author’s experience adopting different communicative stances with respondents in the context of an ethnographic study of the enactment of the English National Literacy Strategy in a “failing” primary school. A commonly accepted communicative stance in ethnography, according to which the researcher avoids disclosure of his or her own views, is problematised; and the potential advantages and disadvantages of feedback as a research tool are explored. date: 2010 date_type: published oa_status: green language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green full_text_status: public publication: Ethnography and Education volume: 5 number: 1 pagerange: 81-96 pages: 16 refereed: TRUE issn: 1745-7831 citation: Lefstein, Adam; (2010) Problematising researcher-respondent relations through exploration of communicative stance. Ethnography and Education , 5 (1) pp. 81-96. Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10001572/1/Lefstein2010Problematising.pdf