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Book SynopsisThis volume of "Advances for Program Evaluation" examines the nature and seriousness of fieldworkers' problems of failure to gain access, achieve comprehension, and avoid intrusion. To do all three, fieldworkers' need understanding and respect of the people from whom they seek data as well as be consciously and critically aware of staging field relationships knotted with tensions of estrangement, involvement, familiarity and distance. In the nine chapters of this volume, the authors speak of access to human subjects data, dealing with methods and concerns about intrusion. Attention is given to past and current practices of personalistic studies, particularly in education, and the need for improved protection of participants.
Table of ContentsAccess, a Zone of Comprehension, and Intrusion. Inappropriate closeness in fieldwork?: A view from anthropology of education. Interconnecting lives: Examining privacy as a shared concern for the researched and researchers. Informed consent: An instrumental or deceptive principle in qualitative educational research. Privacy and intrusion in ethnographic health research. IRBs and the turn to indigenous research ethics. Transforming research through indigenous cultural protocols: Issues of access, privacy, and respect. Crossing borders? Doing gendered ethnographies of third-world organisations. The self of the investigator in research with human beings. Biographies. List of Contributors. Advances in Program Evaluation. Access, a Zone of Comprehension, and Intrusion. Copyright page.
