Role Boundaries and Paying Back: "Switching Hats" in Participant Observation.

Wade, Jacqueline E.

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Publication Date: 1984

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Role Boundaries and Paying Back: "Switching Hats" in Participant Observation.

Wade, Jacqueline E.

Anthropology and Education Quarterly, v15 n3 p211-24 Fall 1984

Discusses problems of researchers conducting studies in situations where they are also employed. Focuses on role-switching as a practical research tactic and describes related experiences of the author (a researcher and college and administrator) with Black students at the University of Pennsylvania. (KH)

Descriptors: Black Students, College Students, Data Collection, Educational Research, Field Studies, Higher Education, Participant Observation, Research Methodology, Research Problems, Researchers, Role Conflict, Social Science Research

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