Research as experienced

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https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2023.27.15329

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consent, research, experience, ethnography, reflection

Abstract

This is an attempt at putting down how I experienced ‘research’, while conducting an ethnographic field work at a fishing village as part of a project to understand experiences of ‘uncertainty’. I will first describe for the reader what seeded/triggered this write up—the unease I experienced during my initial days at the village. This shall be followed by detailing my disposition with respect to the particular project in question here and how I arrived at the village. In the second half of the paper, through reflection, recollection and excerpts from my field notes, I will try to illustrate how notions of consent, rapport, data etc shaped and constrained my experience during (and of) the field study and what effect it had on my being. I do not intend to argue for or against certain practices or arrive at some conclusion, but wish to seek resonances and conversations with those who may have had similar experiences.

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Author Biography

  • ArulGanesh S S , Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education, Mumbai

    Research Scholar, Homi Bhabha Center for Science Education, Mumbai, India.
    Education : Dual BS-MS with major in Mathematics. Research Interests: Mathematics Education, Probability and Statistics Education, Mathematics and Society, Sociology of Mathematics. 
    Current Research : Pursuing a thesis tentatively titled as 'The social political and educational management of uncertainty and co-construction of value(s)'. The objective of the thesis is to learn and contrast how uncertainty is understood and responded to in daily life with how the same is approached through formal mathematics. We expect this to contribute to teaching and learning of uncertainty through the disciplines of Probability and Statistics.

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Published

2023-07-27

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No. 27 (2023): Prometeica - nº 27 (07/2023 - 10/2023)

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Articles - Dossier 1

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ArulGanesh S S. (2023). Research as experienced. Prometeica - Journal of Philosophy and Science, 27, 443-452. https://doi.org/10.34024/prometeica.2023.27.15329