Against Reflexivity as an Academic Virtue and Source of Privileged Knowledge

By M. Lynch. 2000

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Subfields: Sociology and Political Science

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Exploring the normative turn in regional innovation policy: responsibility and the quest for public value (2019, positive): “Reflexivity: the capacity of individuals and organizations to consider and be transparent regarding their own beliefs, interests and assumptions (Lynch, 2000), and 4.”
Neither shaking nor stirring: a case study of reflexivity in Norwegian physical education teacher education (2014, background): “Indeed, Lynch (2000) observes a tendency for academics to deploy reflexivity as an ‘academic virtue’ (p.”
Reconceptualizing Bias in Teaching Qualitative Research Methods (2015, background): “Although the concepts of “subjectivity” and “reflexivity” as they relate to qualitative inquiry are well entrenched and much discussed in methodological literature (e.g., Barad, 2007; Breuer & Roth, 2003; Finlay & Gough, 2003; Hsiung, 2008; Krieger, 1985; Lynch, 2000; Macbeth, 2001; Peshkin, 1988; P”
Student teachers’ patterns of reflection in the context of teaching practice (2015, background): “As Lynch (2000) argues, the concept and practice of reflection is interpreted in various and even contradictory ways.”
A reflexive exploration of two qualitative data coding techniques (2015, background): “…groups, my approach was reflexive in that there was constant scrutiny of the relationship between the researched and the researcher through “immediate, continuing, dynamic and subjective self-awareness” (Finlay, 2003, p. 108) something that Lynch (2000) calls being methodologically self-conscious.”
Guided reflection as a means to demonstrate and develop student teachers’ reflective competencies (2008, methodology): “As Lynch (2000) argues, the concept and the practice of reflection are interpreted in various ways: … in some social theories it [reflection] is an essential human capacity, in others it is a system property, and in still others it is a critical, or self-critical, act.”
A practical guide to reflexivity in qualitative research: AMEE Guide No. 149 (2022, background): “you are stuck in an Escher painting (Lynch 2000).”