Miller (in Banks and Banks, p.67 – add to EndNote) describes the surprise of one research participant when reading the research report as she did not recognise her presence on it, and she (Miller) admits that that was the case as “the persons who participated in the study were absent from the report, an unavoidable consequence of standardized ways of conducting scholarly inquiry”. Is this a phenomenon that can be addressed in a research with children? I ask. Determined t give voice to the voiceless as I am, it is imperative that the participants are vividly recognizable in the report, even though anonymously. For me it is crucial that they recognize their voices and distinguish them from mine. But at the present moment all this seems a far way land, as I did not meet my participants yet!!
Some expressions that caught my attention while reading Miller:
- researcher-author
- multivocality (refering to dialogue)
- athnopoetics
- autoethnographic narratives
- narrativized research reporting (p.69)
- dramatically scripted narratives p.69
- (re)presenting data