A13-14.Vera.Lady.Qualitative Research in Education
1. Universidad de las Fuerzas
Armadas ESPE
FeministResearch
LadyVera Espinoza
Qualitative Research in Education
2. Introduction:
Feminist
values in
research
By:KatyJenkins,Lata
Narayanaswamy &Caroline
Sweetman
How does embedding feminist values in research enable us to
navigate and deal with difficult subjects and sensitivities in ways
that might otherwise not be possible?
How do feminist research practices enable us to translate our
values into meaningful ways of tackling inequalities, poverty and
exclusion in the global South?
3. Objectives
To create spaces and opportunities to reveal lived realities of power
inequalities and difference, and provide evidence that can be deployed in
working towards addressing these engrained inequalities.
Challenge and end inequality between women and men by affirming
women as knowledgeable experts, marginalized by patriarchal power but
exercising their agency in often restricted situations.
Ensure international development supports women’s rights and gender
equality.
That feminist values infuse and underpin every aspect of research.
Understand how the slow progress to women’s equal rights is going,
where it is encountering resistance, and how women and girls–in
particular the most marginalised - arefinding opportunities to negotiate
with the powerful, find spaces for resistance, and organise for
empowerment.
4. Methods used
to collect data
The methods used in this research to collect data were: Participant
observation, focus group and in-depth interview.
In addition to a thorough review of the literature, because if it had been
done superficially, they could not have drawn out the background of the
subject around the world and over the years.
5. Relevant
findings and
solutions for
the problem
Emergence of a new generation of committed feminist scholars, and
Gender and Development remains a key outlet in opening up spaces for
diverse feminist voices to be heard.
Building a literature and history of activism inside and outside of academia,
with university researchers joining forces with feminists working in
women's movements and within government and development NGOs of
all sizes.
Develop research that responds to and emerges from the needs of
marginalized groups and communities, involving them in the design and
implementation of research that they and their partners can implement to
bring about significant change on the ground.
6. Relevant
findings and
solutions for
the problem
To equalize the relationship between researchers and research subjects,
people whose lives are being investigated. Taken to their logical conclusion,
these two categories should become one and the same, and participants
will undertake action research on their own experiences and knowledge.
Access can be provided to decision-makers, for example, government
officials in charge of budgets that could improve women's lives if they are
exposed to research findings.
Feminist analysis can provide information on power imbalances between
researchers and refugee communities, and research based on feminist
values can offer potential to address them.
7. Relevant
findings and
solutions for
the problem
Providing an honest and revealing view of programming planning,
monitoring and evaluation, using feminist methods to reflect on
complex realities and unexpected outcomes. Her article reveals the
challenges of incorporating feminist values into research in a large
organization.
8. Conclusions
The importance lies in the objectives of social transformation and in
emphasizing:
Recognizing the positionality and subjectivity of the researcher as an
integral part of feminist research.
The involvement of "the researched" in the process that requires self-
reflective and participatory approaches.
On the importance of research methods that reveal complexity and
nuance, with a focus on valuing people and ensuring that both the
researcher and the research participants retain their human faces and
voices, rather than being subsumed by numerical averages and statistics
at the level of abstraction where the human experience becomes invisible.
The importance of recognizing and analyzing the challenges and tensions
around the incorporation of feminist values in our research processes and
outcomes, from organizational challenges to ethical "mess". However, we
also accept these challenges as an integral part of what it means to do
feminist research well, rather than seeing them as problems to be
"solved".
9. References
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Sen, Gita y Caren Grown ( 1988 ) Development Crises and
Alternative Visions: Third World Women's
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