Deconstructing the Intercultural Learning of a Doctoral Group Undertaking Qualitative Research—Or How Not to Do a ‘White PhD'

Stronach, Ian and Frankham, Jo and Bibi-Nawaz, Sajida and Cui, Vanessa and Cahill, Greg and Dymoke, Katy and Mai, Dung and Mat-Som, Hafisan and Khalid, Khalid and Alshareif, Othman and Abrawi, Nasra (2014) Deconstructing the Intercultural Learning of a Doctoral Group Undertaking Qualitative Research—Or How Not to Do a ‘White PhD'. International Review of Qualitative Research, 7 (4). pp. 387-400. ISSN 19408447

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Abstract

This article looks at the intellectual and linguistic dilemmas of an international doctoral group and juxtaposes these with some of the existential challenges the group faces. The intention is to offer a kind of ‘dialectical tacking’ between doctoral thinking and doctoral experiences more broadly. The overall aim of the piece is to think in front of each other while developing a sense of ‘equality’ in relation to group contributions. Each of the excursions into research in this article enacts different approaches to research thinking – comparative, inductive, deductive, dialectical and deconstructive. In this piece, the voices of the tutors (Stronach and Frankham) are mostly dominant, but further publication will shift that balance significantly towards the voice of the doctoral student. We begin with an empirical detail that highlights the nature of some of the problems of cultural and linguistic translation.

Item Type:	Article
Identification Number:	10.1525/irqr.2014.7.4.387
Dates:	Date Event 1 March 2014 Accepted 1 December 2014 Published Online
Subjects:	CAH22 - education and teaching > CAH22-01 - education and teaching > CAH22-01-01 - education
Divisions:	Faculty of Health, Education and Life Sciences > Centre for Study of Practice and Culture in Education (C-SPACE)
Depositing User:	Vanessa Cui
Date Deposited:	02 Mar 2017 16:19
Last Modified:	09 Oct 2023 10:32
URI:	https://www.open-access.bcu.ac.uk/id/eprint/3900