Interact with your research participants or collect your data? How you interpret what you will see in your study? How you will analyze your data?
o Briefly tell your reader what this section will be about.
• Researcher Reflexivity, Positionality, or Identity Statement (one of these titles, not each)
o What does Creswell & Creswell (or other authors) say about Reflexivity/Positionality? Explain and cite.
o Describe your “ways of knowing” (remember to cite)
▪ What philosophical framework/research paradigm do you subscribe to?
▪ What are your ontological beliefs?
▪ What are your epistemological assumptions and beliefs?
o Tell us who you are as the researcher who will conduct this study.
o Who are you in relation to this study?
o What bias will you bring to your research study?
o How will who you are impact how you will go about conducting your study?
Interact with your research participants or collect your data? How you interpret
what you will see in your study? How you will analyze your data?
o How will you address or bracket this bias in your research?
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Huggins, A., & Randell, S. (2007, April). The contribution of sports to gender equality and women’s empowerment. A paper presented at the International Conference on Gender Equity on Sports for Social Change, Kigali. Retrieved March (Vol. 3, p. 2009).
Inglis, D. (2005). Culture and everyday life. Psychology Press.
Kidd, B. (2013). A new social movement: Sport for development and peace. In Sport and foreign policy in a globalizing world (pp. 36-46). Routledge.
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