#79 Listening Differently: Rethinking Research with Out-of-Field Teachers

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Out-of-Field Teaching Toolkit Podcast

Margaret Paton

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#79 Listening Differently: Rethinking Research with Out-of-Field Teachers

Out-of-Field Teaching Toolkit Podcast

7 minutes 53 seconds

3 months ago

#79 Listening Differently: Rethinking Research with Out-of-Field Teachers

What happens when no one signs up for your carefully planned research study? In this solo episode, I reflect on the challenges of involving out-of-field teachers in time-intensive research and why that struggle pushed me to rethink traditional data collection methods. I share how netnography and existing online conversations are reshaping my PhD project — and what this means for research ethics. It’s a call to listen differently, especially when participation feels like one ask too many.

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Find out more about my PhD project if you’reconsidering participating in an interview: https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/success-stories-ooft-maths-science/phd-research-project-a-netnographic-exploration-of-self-perceptions-of-success-of-out-of-field-teachers-of-mathematics-and-science/

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