Introduction: Research as Self-Reflexivity, Self-Reflexivity as Social Process / Frederick Steier -- Part One. Theoretical Issues in Research and Reflexivity -- Knowing without Metaphysics / Ernst von Glasersfeld -- Aspects of the Radical Constructivist Position Science and Daily Life / Humberto R Maturana -- The Ontology of Scientific Explanations On the Relations between Seeing, Interpreting and Knowing / Philip H Steedman -- Through the Eyes of the Other / Heinz von Foerster -- Part Two. From Theory To Reflexivity in Research Practice -- Toward Reflexive Methodologies / Kenneth J Gergen and Mary M Gergen -- What Should Guide Reality Construction? / Ib Ravn -- Reconstructing (Some) Communication Research Methods / Klaus Krippendorff -- Biography or Ethnobiography or Both? Embodied Reflexivity and the Deconstruction of Knowledge-Power / Thomas Soderqvist -- Reflexivity and Methodology: An Ecological Constructionism / Frederick Steier -- Part Three. From Research Experience To Reflexive Method -- Learning as Reflective Conversation with Materials / Jeanne Bamberger and Donald A Schon -- Co-Constructing the Interviewer / /Co-Constructing 'Family' / Jane Jorgenson -- A Short Essay on Languaging / A L Becker -- Self-Reflection, Dialogue and the Subject / Tullio Maranhao.
Summary
Explores the range of issues and perspectives about the nature of knowledge and reflexive knowing, this book shows how a concern with reflexivity can inform research methodologies and practice. The text is intended for academics and researchers in communication and the sociology of knowledge.