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Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research
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Reflexivity is acknowledged as a crucial concept and is pivotal in the methodology of qualitative research. Various practices of reflexivity are adopted in the social science disciplines. However, the concept is difficult to pin down and the challenge for researchers is to address how to become reflexive and do reflexivity in research practice. In social work, reflexivity has further been developed and applied in practice contexts. The practice terms, critical reflection and reflection or reflectivity are interrelated in ways that aim to explain reflexivity in the profession which, in turn, can offer an enhanced understanding of reflexivity applied in research. This exploratory article promotes practising reflection – questioning, analysing and evaluating oneself in employing reflexivity in all the research stages: methodological construction, data collection and data analysis by undertaking three key self-focused activities: (1) thinking about one’s own thinking; (2) observation of emotions/thoughts, role boundaries and power dynamics in research relationships; and (3) exploration of perceptual experiences. Maintaining the reflexive stance is achieved through reflectivity. The article is largely descriptive but draws on experience in a doctoral study of cultural competence and promotes the effective use of reflexivity in qualitative social work research.
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This exploratory article argues that reflexivity in qualitative social work research can be enacted through reflection across methodological construction, data collection, and data analysis, using three self-focused activities. Drawing on the first author’s PhD study of cultural competence development, it illustrates how reflexivity can surface assumptions, emotions, positioning, and power dynamics, while noting that reflexivity is difficult, time-consuming, and not a natural skill.
Key findings
- Reflexivity is hard to pin down, and the article proposes practising reflection—questioning, analysing, and evaluating oneself—through three self-focused activities: (1) thinking about one’s own thinking; (2) observing emotions/thoughts, role boundaries, and power dynamics in research relationships; and (3) exploring perceptual experiences.
- Reflection/reflectivity is presented as a prerequisite for reflexivity; in data analysis, the author describes a subject-object-subject analysis, illustrated through re-examining Māori participants’ meanings of cultural competence and the researcher’s own interpretations.
- In the first author’s doctoral study, recruitment did not set specific categorised groups; participants came from diverse backgrounds identifying with at least 10 different cultural and race/ethnic groups. Reflexivity revealed fluid insider/outsider positioning and power differentials, and the author states that reflexivity might not be a method of managing power imbalance.
- The article concludes that both reflectivity and reflexivity are needed to understand participants’ experiences and one’s own, and that reflexivity can awaken consciousness of the researcher’s subjective/personal involvement in research.
Methods
- Exploratory, largely descriptive article drawing on the first author’s PhD study of cultural competence development (Ide, 2021), with the second author as supervisor; ethical approval was received from the University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee on 4 June 2015.
- The study used qualitative research stages—methodological construction, data collection, and data analysis—and drew on critical realism (Bhaskar, 1978) and social constructionist perspectives.
- The article illustrates reflexivity through the first author’s research journals, notes, and interview examples, including interviews with student participants and Māori social workers; no formal sample size or systematic analysis procedure is reported.
Limitations
- The paper states that reflexivity is not a natural skill but can be improved by education and training; it is time-consuming, researchers may not always have enough time for adequate reflection, and the process can involve emotional challenges such as discomfort, frustration, and vulnerability.
- The paper also states that how awareness and/or insight emerges from reflexivity is not well known, necessary techniques may not be clear, reflexivity can be considered too subjective and lead to questioning validity, and reflexivity might not manage power imbalance.
- Evident from the text: the article is largely descriptive and based on one doctoral study, with examples drawn from the first author’s reflections rather than a systematic empirical evaluation of the proposed three activities; participant sample size and formal analytic procedures are not reported.
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“The subject-object-subject analysis (reflexivity) acknowledges the influence of subjective knowledge: '[the] reflexive approach does form the basis for such crucial conceptual functions as personal meaning, interpersonal and interpretive understanding, and accurate empathy as a way of knowing self and other' (Kondrat, 1999: 458).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“In the reflection, I acknowledged that my decisions over recruitment partially resulted from my feelings of being left out of both (Japanese and New Zealand) groups.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Methodological construction stage: Thinking about one's own thinking
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“I found that researcher reflexivity is an ethical research process important in addressing power differentials by increasing awareness of the power dynamics that exist in researcher-participant relationships.”
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“From the previous example, my insider status did not have a positive impact on the relationship by the end of the interview with the participant.”
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“Another example from my study occurred when I was interviewing several M aori (indigenous people of New Zealand) social workers.I was challenged as they redirected questions about culture and cross-cultural social work practice back to me.”
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“Reflexivity enabled me to address the difference without our similarities.”
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“Their meanings correspond to the Aotearoa New Zealand Association of Social Workers (ANZASW) social work Code of Ethics statement that the New Zealand social worker demonstrates an understanding of knowledge of Te Tiriti o Waitangi in their practice of social work (ANZASW, 2019).”
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“Moreover, previous studies have not adequately dealt with how researchers do reflexivity and integrate it into their work (Probst, 2015).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Introduction
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“The researcher's self-location (gender, race, class, sexuality, ethnicity and nationality) is an indicator of how these factors influence all stages of the research process (Pillow, 2010).”
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“Power may be seen as ingrained in the relationship in that the researchers are often positioned as powerful.”
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“The concept stems from the Western philosophical tradition, George Herbert Mead's classic distinction between the 'I' and the 'me': reflective self-awareness distinguishes between the subject-self 'I' (knowerthe reflecting aspect of the self) and the object-self 'me' (knownthe self as reflected on) in reflection (Kondrat, 1999).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“However, Kondrat (1999) asserts that 'subjective' is used in a pejorative term (such as contaminated or biased), but it is a way of knowing something in its own right.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > An example of the reflective-reflexive process
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“In another reflection, I realised that I, unconsciously and unintentionally, avoided categorising any participant's identity as singular due to experiencing my cultural identity as changeable (being a minority Japanese in New Zealand and being a majority Japanese (however, I am often seen/perceived as an outsider) in Japan) by moving between different contexts.”
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“However, my decision-making for this research recruitment was spontaneous, without conscious thought.”
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“In focussing on broad generalisability among the group I might have overlooked the unique experiences of individuals.”
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“In this article, the occurrence of reflexivity is illustrated through the first author's engagement in reflexivity, which was pivotal for her PhD study of cultural competence development.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Becoming reflexive through reflection
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“A significant issue was that I lost a strong sense of self or cultural identity when trying to trace these.”
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“Reflexivity was produced by a reflective process alongside reflection at different stages: methodological construction, data collection and data analysis during the research which is illustrated later.”
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“Within this historical and societal context, I needed to gain trust from the participants, being Tau iwi (neither M aori nor P ak eh a (European New Zealander)) as someone who studies cultural practice.”
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“After this reflection, I also realised that I detached a cultural self-position or maintained a nobody identity, while the participant might be her cultural self and considered the author as insider.”
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“I was not merely given solo privilege as a researcher in this particular context.”
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“This note led to questioning me about my understanding, what does Other mean to her and myself?”
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“In a particular conversation with one participant, I was sympathetic toward her.My response came from the experience of being treated as the Other on some occasions.”
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“In the process, I went back and forth between described experiences of participants and my understanding (awareness) of them in reflections.”
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“I questioned my initial analysis by re-assessing a couple of participants' interviews where participants discussed their uncomfortable experiences of being a M aori person in New Zealand society in answering a question about their understanding and meaning of cultural competence in practice.”
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“Understanding of the Treaty results in the view involving cultural competence coming from my way of seeing New Zealand societyas a multicultural society.”
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“My subject-object analysis then shifted to how the participants perceive their world, analysing data by use of the subject 'I'.”
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“Those participants' central focus regarding cultural competence was seemingly related to the historical issues -M aori colonisation and oppression.”
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“In the subject-object-subject analysis, I acknowledged the 'different' realities between us and I was reflexive in perceiving their meaning differentlyif participants see New Zealand's colonial history as continuously affecting the present, not the past.”
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“However, I left a note in my research journal: 'is there something that I misunderstood and or mis-interpreted here?[The participant] looked nonplussed.'”
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“I more likely accept the 'Other' status from my understanding of being the Other from where I stand as a migrant, and this needed to be differentiated from what the M aori participants saw, and how they experienced their reality, as it depends on where they stand.”
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“My first analysis of M aori participants' meanings of cultural competence based on their words in texts and transcripts suggest the support of M aori people and culture in social work practice.”
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“Reflectivity alongside reflection, which is a step toward reflexivity exploring and elaborating in social work, guided the author in the process of reflexivity.”
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“In this article, the core of reflexivity, conscious self-awareness drew attention to the occurrence and integration of it into the first author's research.”
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“Eventually, I transformed the analysed information into some form of knowledge.”
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“The examples in this article demonstrate that evocative questions have emerged from the first author's research journals and notes.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Acknowledgements
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“Research is a deliberative process; however, decision-making is not completely consciously based on rational thinking and logical reasoning.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Methodological construction stage: Thinking about one's own thinking
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“Reflexivity in thinking helps to understand what I know and how I knowwhat are my perspectives and assumptions about the world and how my self-influence (including my emotions) has either intentionally, or unintentionally, affected the formation of the research.”
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“Reflexivity can be a critical lens in the researcher-participant relationship (in relation to power) through reflective practice.”
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“The research received ethical approval from the University of Auckland Human Participants Ethics Committee on 4 June 2015.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Introduction
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“Reflexivity is acknowledged as a crucial concept and is pivotal in the methodology of qualitative research.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Abstract
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“This exploratory article promotes practising reflectionquestioning, analysing and evaluating oneself in employing reflexivity in all the research stages: methodological construction, data collection and data analysis by undertaking three key self-focused activities: (1) thinking about one's own thinking; (2) observation of emotions/thoughts, role boundaries and power dynamics in research relations”
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“Reflexivity can be implemented by undertaking three, self-focused activities: (1) thinking about one's own thinking; (2) observing emotions and thoughts, role boundaries and power dynamics in the research relationship; and (3) exploring perceptual experiences.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Abstract
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“Maintaining the reflexive stance is achieved through reflectivity.”
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“A reflexive stance is contributed to by a process of reflectivity (Fook, 2016).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Abstract
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“Hence reflexivity can still be obscure in relation to what reflexivity is, and how to be reflexive or do reflexivity in research.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Introduction
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“Reflection is a prerequisite and entails analysing, evaluating and questioning oneself in the reflexive process.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Introduction
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“Also, the process of reflexivity is time-consuming, researchers may not always have enough time for adequate reflection (Probst and Berenson, 2014).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Reflexivity as applied in social work practice
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“Two distinct cultures: an indigenous M aori culture and a largely Anglo-European New Zealand national culture, co-exist, often uncomfortably, within the society, incorporating the values and traditions of both cultures and reflecting this society's customs, laws, practices and institutional arrangements (Eketone and Walker, 2015).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Data-collection stage: Observing fluid self-location and positioning
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“The profession aspires to bicultural practice, based on The Treaty of Waitangi (henceforth, in M aori language Te Tiriti o Waitangi), which is a partnership between various tribes of M aori and the British Crown signed in 1840 (Eketone and Walker, 2015;Ruwhiu, 2013).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Data-collection stage: Observing fluid self-location and positioning
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“New Zealand social work has increasingly focused on its colonial origins as a British colony with significant European settlement in the 19th century (Beddoe, 2018).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Data-collection stage: Observing fluid self-location and positioning
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“Firstly, reflexivity implies emancipatory practice, which is an inspection of professional knowledge and practice in relation to power (D ' Cruz et al., 2007).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Reflexivity as applied in social work practice
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“Reflexivity seemingly brings researchers' subconsciousness into awareness.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Becoming reflexive through reflection
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“Reflexivity reveals researcher-participant power differentials and unequalised power, not only in the immediate interviewing context but also in wider social and cultural contexts.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Data-collection stage: Observing fluid self-location and positioning
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“The study of culture or related to culture was a sensitive issue as well as an area of expertise on the topic for M aori people due to the ongoing struggle for their recognition and rights due to the country's history of colonisation.”
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“Reflexivity often focuses (becoming aware of power) on privileged researchers.However, it is not always the case.”
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“On the other hand, while reflexivity has become significant in the production of qualitative research, the necessary techniques may not be clear (Day, 2012), and it can be considered too subjective (Finlay, 2002) leading to questioning the validity of the research.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Methodological reflexivity
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“Reflexive researchers are encouraged to manage power differences by empowering and collaborating with research participants (Day, 2012).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Data-collection stage: Observing fluid self-location and positioning
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“The capability of reflection on a deeper level is crucial for reflexivity; however, it is seldom mentioned in the research field (Mortari, 2015).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Reflexivity as applied in social work practice
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“Reflectivity involved inter/intrapersonal dimensions in reflection assist being reflexive/doing reflexively.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“Thus, researcher's reflexivity, which entails reflection on the process of knowledge production and meaning-making based on theoretical (as well as personal) assumptions is indispensable.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Methodological reflexivity
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“Furthermore, reflexivity involves an observation of the power imbalance between researcher and participant.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Data-collection stage: Observing fluid self-location and positioning
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“The process forms a dichotomy between the knower of self (subject) and the self as known (object) in reflection (Yan and Wong, 2005).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“As previously illustrated, reflexivity in thinking and observing has presented as understanding oneself (assumptions, emotions, self-location and positioning) that leads to recognising others.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“However, reflexivity might not be a method of managing power imbalance.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Data-collection stage: Observing fluid self-location and positioning
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“Fixed researcher positionality is problematic as any person cannot be completely outside or inside as the researcher is flexible in their insider-outsider positioning (Eppley, 2006;Hallawell, 2006).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Data-collection stage: Observing fluid self-location and positioning
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“The role of subject who reflects and the object which is reflectedthat is, the subject becomes the object of the analysis (Mortari, 2015).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“Power is not something that is intrinsically held by persons but by peoples and groups; they are positioned differently within power structures, and power is not equally distributed (Day, 2012).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Data-collection stage: Observing fluid self-location and positioning
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“Reflection entails a subject-object analysis or subject 'I' analysis as Finlay (2002) mentioned.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“They are able to recognise and address the assumptions and preconceptions that may affect knowledge production and the process.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Becoming reflexive through reflection
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“The process is a source of insight through becoming more reflexive (Figure 1).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“The subject-object analysis is an objective analysis of self in reflection.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“Making oneself the object of self-inquiry becomes the subject of his or her experience (Mortari, 2015).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“For instance, understanding a researcher's perceived reality can expand their thinking about others' perceived reality, while these realities may not be identical.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“'With this view, New Zealand could not claim to be multicultural because government institutions and policies only accommodate one, or at best two, cultural ways of being, knowing, valuing, and doing' (Eketone and Walker, 2015: 108).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > An example of the reflective-reflexive process
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“Since the ideas of social constructionism have been absorbed into social work and practice, social workers' reflexivity can be more attentive to such things as reflective practice, interpreting clients' problems and knowledge in/of practice.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Conclusion
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“Reflexivity is, however, not a natural skill but one which can be improved by education and training (Mortari, 2015).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Acknowledgements
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“My perception of the world and subjective knowledge is essential for understanding experiences of Others and interpreting the participants' realities.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > An example of the reflective-reflexive process
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“A reflexive researcher can consider participants' perception of the world by recognising their self-view influence.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“Reflexivity is a post-examination of the subject-object analysis by the subject 'I' (the knower).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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In the paper
“Reflexivity can awaken the consciousness of the researcher's subjective/personal involvement in research.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“Reflexivity involves exploring and examining perceptual experienceshow we perceive participant (and researcher) experiences.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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“These provide an initial mapping of a researcher's own thinking and observe any changes from the beginning, middle and end of the research (Pillow, 2010).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Acknowledgements
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“Eketone and Walker (2015) explain that, in a multicultural society, it is often understood that non-dominant cultural groups are not fully accommodatedthey live under the country's laws and customs within a society in which a power dynamic is generated where the privileged in the society maintain monoculturalism.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > An example of the reflective-reflexive process
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In the paper
“However, such reflection focuses more on emotions and thoughts towards interpretations about reality/experience of that subject and may exclude comparing different interpretationsand discussing interpretations behind these interpretations.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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In the paper
“In qualitative research, reflexivity enables researchers to recognise their presence and particular ways of seeing and thinking and acknowledging that what they see influences how they see their world and others.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Conclusion
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In the paper
“Reflexivity can include that, although it may not occur spontaneously.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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In the paper
“The process is vital as we tend to see others from our (different/privileged) standpoint.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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In the paper
“The outcomes of reflexivity bring insights such as new thoughts or understandings about how the reality(ies) between the two can be constructed and adjusted through the researcher's internal dialogue.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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In the paper
“On the other hand, Aotearoa New Zealand uniquely recognises biculturalism stemming from Te Tiriti o Waitangi, a formal, political, social and cultural structure within the country coexists between two cultures.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > An example of the reflective-reflexive process
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In the paper
“Researchers' understanding of their world, participants' views of their world, and then addressing and comparing differences by recognising the influence of the researcher's self-view can bring together each other's knowledge and experiences in creating new knowledge.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Conclusion
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In the paper
“If so, their strong resistance to one dominant culture in social work practice by embracing their culture makes much sense.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > An example of the reflective-reflexive process
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In the paper
“Reflexivity is often perceived as uncertainty due to its construction within various theoretical frameworks and, as a result, there are several practices of it in research.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Conclusion
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In the paper
“Pillow (2010) strongly suggests that researchers, in particular novice researchers, consistently keep researcher logs, field notes and journals.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Acknowledgements
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In the paper
“Therefore, we need both reflectivity and reflexivity for understanding and interpretation of the experiences of participants as well as our own.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Discussion: Exploring perceptual experience in data analysis
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In the paper
“The process may be back and forth to check/evaluate the researcher's perception of the world and participants (it can include cross-checking with them).”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Acknowledgements
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In the paper
“Reflection was crucial for being reflexive and doing reflexivity.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Acknowledgements
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In the paper
“That leads to further reflexivity to review the findings through analysing the process of knowledge the researcher is generatingquestioning the interpretation of the Other's lived experience using the researcher's own words and paradigms to present the Other's experience.”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Acknowledgements
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The authors state this as an assumption.
There is a link between the existing world and perceptions of the world that are not identical.
“A crucial point is that there is a significant assumption of a link between the existing world and perceptions of the world that are not identical.”
The paper relies on this without support.
How awareness and/or insight emerges from reflexivity is not well known.
“However, how such awareness and/ or insight emerges from reflexivity is not well known.”
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The first author's self-reflections accurately capture her unconscious motivations and experiences.
“In another reflection, I realised that I, unconsciously and unintentionally, avoided categorising any participant's identity as singular due to experiencing my cultural identity as changeable”
The paper relies on this without support.
The first author's reflections and research journal notes accurately represent her experiences and internal states during the interviews.
“However, I left a note in my research journal: 'is there something that I misunderstood and or mis-interpreted here?[The participant] looked nonplussed.'”
“The examples in this article demonstrate that evocative questions have emerged from the first author's research journals and notes.”
The paper relies on this without support.
The first author's interpretations of participants' meanings and experiences are accurate.
“My first analysis of M aori participants' meanings of cultural competence based on their words in texts and transcripts suggest the support of M aori people and culture in social work practice.”
“Those participants' central focus regarding cultural competence was seemingly related to the historical issues -M aori colonisation and oppression.”
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In the paper
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Methodological reflexivity
“(Hallawell, 2006)”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > References
“Hellawell D (2006) Inside-out: analysis of the insider-outsider concept as a heuristic device to develop reflexivity in students doing qualitative research.”
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In the paper
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > Introduction
“(D ' Cruz et al., 2007)”
§ Challenging perspectives: Reflexivity as a critical approach to qualitative social work research > References
“D'Cruz H, Gillingham P and Melendez S (2005) Reflexivity, its meanings and relevance for social work: a critical review of the literature.”
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Cheng, H. (2026) · Acta Psychologica · doi:10.1016/j.actpsy.2026.106388 · Cited by 1
Hoem, I. B. (2026) · Global Studies of Childhood · doi:10.1177/20436106251412859 · Cited by 1
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“The concept of reflexivity has been developed both for the areas of research methodology as well as clinical health professional practice [12].”
Mumy, A. P., Matney, W., Gatts, J. H., Brock, K. L., & Kirkland, K. D. (2026) · Perspectives of the ASHA Special Interest Groups · doi:10.1044/2026_persp-24-00277 · Cited by 1
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“Relationality, reflexivity, advocacy, and responsiveness to client context are foundational to the profession (Ide & Beddoe, 2024; Rollins, 2020).”
Ramoutar, L., & Hampton, L. (2024) · Educational Psychology in Practice · doi:10.1080/02667363.2024.2329143 · Cited by 1
“TA flexibly aligns with many epistemological perspectives including social constructionism, with the researcher’s role in knowledge production as central (Braun & Clarke, 2006, 2013, 2021), integrating their personal and theoretical assumptions (Ide & Beddoe, 2023).”
Geller, A. B. (2025) · Adoption Quarterly · doi:10.1080/10926755.2024.2444198 · Cited by 1
Beigi, R. (2025) · Journal of Visual Art Practice · doi:10.1080/14702029.2025.2480426 · Cited by 4
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Tijsma, G. (2024) · doi:10.5463/thesis.640
Kwok, K., Kwan, C. K., & Lo, K. C. (2024) · Children and Youth Services Review · doi:10.1016/j.childyouth.2024.107799
Kwok, K., Kwan, C. K., & Lo, K. C. (2024) · The British Journal of Social Work · doi:10.1093/bjsw/bcae136
WITHDRAWN: A Qualitative Study of User Experiences in Harm Reduction ProgramsPreprint
Adebayo, O. B., & Innis, T. (2024) · medRxiv · doi:10.1101/2024.09.17.24313840
Réflexions critiques sur l’émotivité dans l’encadrement des étudiantes en stage en criminologie
Pitchforth, D., & Vachon, M.-L. (2024) · Champ pénal · doi:10.4000/12yet
How to reflect critically on your clinical practice in older people nursing
Goss-Hill, B., & Maddens, G. (2025) · Nursing Older People · doi:10.7748/nop.2025.e1508
Chintan-manan : a critical reflections approach to teaching interviewing skills in an Indian context
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“An emergent concept here is that of reflexivity – a tool for understanding knowledge production in qualitative research (Ide & Beddoe, 2023).”
Critical Reflexivity in Doctoral Social Science Research
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(Over) thinking exits: conceptualising a trauma-informed approach to leaving the field
Scammell, J. (2025) · Ethnography & Education · doi:10.1080/17457823.2025.2558093
Lee, S. Y., & Yu, K. (2025) · Journal of the Society for Social Work and Research · doi:10.1086/737812
Choorat, P., & Kramanon, S. (2025) · The Journal of Behavioral Science · doi:10.69523/tjbs.2025.284640
Exploration of an ancestry of supervisor–student relationships in social work field education
Hall, N. R., Chhetry, D. S., & O’Sullivan, J. (2025) · Social Work Education · doi:10.1080/02615479.2025.2582713
“Ide and Beddoe (2023, p. 6) promote critical reflection in social research by ‘thinking about one’s own thinking,’ recognizing power dynamics in research relationships, and exploring how we perceive participant (and researcher) experiences.”
Young, A. N., Hunt, E., Blasi, Z. D., & Foley, S. (2025) · International Journal of Applied Positive Psychology · doi:10.1007/s41042-025-00262-w
“This iterative process aimed to promote the identification and acknowledgement of any researcher assumptions or biases, and to further enhance the reliability of the results (Cain et al., 2019; Ide & Beddoe, 2024 ).”
Rose, A. (2025) · Journal of Research in Special Educational Needs · doi:10.1111/1471-3802.70053 · Cited by 1
Slobodin, O., Kalet, T., Berger-Raanan, R., & Pinchover, S. (2025) · Journal of Cross-Cultural Psychology · doi:10.1177/00220221251387727
“Reflexivity involves the researcher’s attentiveness to cultural aspects of the research context (Ide & Beddoe, 2023).”
Zheng, Y., Xing, M., Smith, C. M. M., & Zhang, L. E. (2025) · Human Resource Management Journal · doi:10.1111/1748-8583.70007
Reflexivity and Identity Negotiation in Language Education
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Brotman, S., Pacheco, L., Deshaies, M.-H., Mastrostefano, A., & Demers, C. (2026) · International Review of Qualitative Research · doi:10.1177/19408447261416926
On the construction of the intersectional identity of LGBTQ people who stutter
Mancinelli, J. M. (2026) · Journal of Fluency Disorders · doi:10.1016/j.jfludis.2026.106198 · Cited by 1
Reuben, S., Bobat, S., & van Niekerk, T. (2026) · Administrative Sciences · doi:10.3390/admsci16020099 · Cited by 1
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Woodley, G., See, H. W., Tomkinson, S., & Milford, S. C. (2026) · Methods in Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.metip.2026.100253
Supervising interpretive research in doctoral social work education
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Learning to Interview: An Autoethnographic Account of Doctoral Training
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Reframing Assessment for Equity
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Metadata
- Authors
- Ide, Y., & Beddoe, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Auckland (NZ)
- Corresponding author
- Ide, Yayoi
- Venue
- Qualitative Social Work
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2023-04-28
- Volume
- 23
- Issue
- 4
- Pages
- 725-740
- ISSN
- 1473-3250 (ISSN-L)
- 1741-3117
- OpenAlex
- W4367316670
- Semantic Scholar
- d4a233749dcc01a60af181f0b2f57734c2dacbc3
- Cited by
- 177
- References
- 38
- Citations by year
- 2026: 83 · 2025: 59 · 2024: 30 · 2023: 5
- FWCI
- 52.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- hybrid
- doi.org
- Locations
- Qualitative Social Work (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- ResearchSpace (University of Auckland) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- Social Sciences › Public Administration › Social Work Education and Practice
- Social Sciences › Education › Qualitative Research Methods and Applications
- Keywords
- reflexivity, critical reflection, reflectivity, research relationships, power relations, role boundaries, emotions in research, perceptual experience, cultural competence, researcher self-awareness
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