POTENTIALS AND POSSIBILITIESPOTENTIALS AND POSSIBILITIESOF COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

D J Cl di iD. Jean ClandininCentre for Research for Teacher Education and DevelopmentUniversity of Alberta

Collaborative research as distinct from

h d t k ll b ti lresearch undertaken collaboratively.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

As borderland research

As relational practiceAs relational practice

STORY FRAGMENT ONE: JANUARY, 2007

Meaning of term ‘collaboration’.

Working collaboratively means people

working together to produce somethingworking together to produce something.

Working toward some agreed upon shared

end or purpose.

FEATURES OF COLLABORATION IN ARTSCOLLABORATIVES

A d f ki d f l d hi1. A need for some kind of leadership2. Willing participants3 Aware of their responsibilities within the 3. Aware of their responsibilities within the

collaboration4. Participants wish to be part of a group

C di i b i di id l id i d 5. Contradictions between individual identity and group identity

6. A sense of personal connection6. A sense of personal connection7. Personal agendas can sabotage8. A well-established social identity and sense of

purpose9. Constant, clear and regular communication10 The work itself is seen as a third entity10. The work itself is seen as a third entity

- Margaret Baguley -

THE IDEA OF COLLABORATION AS DISTINCTFROM COLLABORATIVE RESEARCHFROM COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH

Collaborative research: Distinct from

h d t k ll b ti lresearch undertaken collaboratively.

Problematizing the distinctions among Problematizing the distinctions among

collaboration, working collaboratively on

research and collaborative research.

What do we mean by collaborative

h?research?

Epistemological ontological and Epistemological, ontological and

methodological considerations.

BLURRED DISTINCTIONS

WHAT MAKES RESEARCH COLLABORATIVE?RESEARCH?

A gradual shift to understanding

collaborative research as borderland collaborative research as borderland

research, as a relational practice.

SEVEN WORKING PRINCIPLES FOR WORKINGSEVEN WORKING PRINCIPLES FOR WORKINGCOLLABORATIVELY WITH SCHOOLS

1. Negotiation of entry and exit2. Reconstructing meaning vs judgment of practice3. Participant as knower4. Participants as collaborative researchers5. Openness of purpose6. Openness of judgment and interpretation7. Multiple interpretations of text8. Ethical quality of the co-participant

relationships

Collaborative research constitutes a relationship. In everyday life, the idea of friendship implies a sharing an interpenetration of two or more sharing, an interpenetration of two or more persons’ spheres of experience. Mere contact is acquaintanceship, not friendship. The same may q p, p ybe said for collaborative research which requires a close relationship akin to friendship.

l i hi j i d i li b Relationships are joined, as McIntyre implies, by the narrative unities of our lives. (Clandinin & Connelly 1988 p 281)Connelly, 1988, p. 281)

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Narrative inquirers explore an

i di id l’ i th individual’s experiences as they are

constituted, shaped, expressed, and , p , p ,

enacted within social, cultural, linguistic,

familial, and institutional narratives.

i i i i l i l i iNarrative inquiry is relational inquiry.

NARRATIVE INQUIRY IS RELATIONAL INQTHE FOLLOWING WAYS:

Research puzzles

Live alongside participants

Co compose field texts and research textsCo-compose field texts and research texts

Researchers are part of, and under study p , y

in, the inquiry

Live out relational ethics

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH ASBORDERLAND RESEARCH AS A DEEPLYBORDERLAND RESEARCH, AS A DEEPLY

COMPLEX RELATIONAL PRACTICE

Borderlands are spaces around borders.

B d l d l f t i d Borderlands are places of tension and

struggle.

Borderlands is a way of thinking about these

spaces where understanding collaborative

research as relational practice can deepen research as relational practice can deepen

our understandings of the potentials and

possibilities of collaborative research.

Researchers frequently find themselves

i lt l di id l i crossing cultural discourses, ideologies,

and institutional boundaries.

Borderland spaces allow us to understand

tensions between methodologies.

Borderland spaces are spaces where there

i t t ll f t l i l is a constant call for ontological,

epistemological and methodological p g g

assumptions to be seen as in relation with

each other.

COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH AS BORDERLAND RESEARCH,

AS RELATIONAL PRACTICE

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WHERE ARE THE BORDERLAND SPACES INCOLLABORATIVE RESEARCH?

1. Borderlands between disciplines.

WHERE ARE THE BORDERLAND SPACES INCOLLABORATIVE RESEARCH?

2. Borderlands between researchers.

WHERE ARE THE BORDERLAND SPACES INCOLLABORATIVE RESEARCH?

3. Borderlands between researchers and

participantsparticipants.

WHERE ARE THE BORDERLAND SPACES INCOLLABORATIVE RESEARCH?

4. Borderlands between different

understandings of research ethicsunderstandings of research ethics.

WHERE ARE THE BORDERLAND SPACES INCOLLABORATIVE RESEARCH?

5. Borderlands between lives in relation.

STORY FRAGMENT FOUR: MARCH 2009STORY FRAGMENT FOUR: MARCH, 2009