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The aim is to explore how self-reflexivity enhances the understanding of epistemological awareness in research.

April 1, 2026Open Access

The Component of 'Self' in Research: A Self-Reflexive Approach

Key Points

The aim is to explore how self-reflexivity enhances the understanding of epistemological awareness in research.
Combined feminist and self-reflexive frameworks
Chronological account of personal epistemological development
Illustration of self-reflexive ethnographic approach
Identified the importance of personal experiential data in research
Showed how self-reflexivity offers new possibilities for understanding the self
Demonstrated the interplay between epistemology and personal identity in research processes

Abstract

The feminist voice (Reinharz, 1992) invites the researcher's personal experiential data in the material as embodied knowing, and self-reflexivity uses "feedback" from the materials or writing to admit new possibilities (Schon, 1983 ; Steier, 1995). Through a combined feminist and self-reflexive framework, a chronological account of the development of my epistemological awareness is explored. This paper demonstrates the self-reflexively functioning researcher through the illustration of a self-reflexive ethnographic approach (Ellis & Bochner, 2000) to the relationship between epistemology and (my) self.

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テーマ中村 (Fri,) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/69cd7a815652765b073a7ac5 https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.60461/0002000751

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