Beyond “doing No Harm”: Saddle Points in Anonymization and Masking as Socialized Practices for New Researchers
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2021
Keywords
Anonymization, graduate training, interactive interviewing, masking
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
https://doi.org/10.1080/09518398.2021.1885080
Abstract
A central challenge to addressing what becomes taken-for-granted in method in educational research is socialization into the field. During graduate training, students and their mentors are challenged by unique projects. Here, authors, two early career scholars and a faculty mentor, offer a critical interrogation of socialization experiences related to methods of anonymizing and masking, questions of responsibilities to varying publics, and the good that research might, or might not, do in the world by sharing a co-constructed narrative based on interactive interviews which took place over six months. The authors identify saddle points, or points of stillness, within these conversations that offer, but do not dictate, considerations for teaching practices of anonymizing and masking as part of qualitative research training and socialization.
Citation / Publisher Attribution
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, v. 34, issue 9, p. 871-885
Scholar Commons Citation
Panos, Alexandra; Uttamchandani, Suraj; and Lester, Jessica Nina, "Beyond “doing No Harm”: Saddle Points in Anonymization and Masking as Socialized Practices for New Researchers" (2021). Teaching and Learning Faculty Publications. 689.
https://digitalcommons.usf.edu/tal_facpub/689
