Citation

Jordan FM. J. Hosp. Leis. Sport Tour. Educ. 2010; 7(1): 99-103.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2010, Hospitality, Leisure, Sport and Tourism Network, Publisher Elsevier Publishing)

DOI

10.3794/johlste.71.per

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

Social scientists have long-identified the importance of reflexivity and of positioning the researcher as an embodied and emotional presence in the design of studies, and the collection, analysis, interpretation and presentation of data. In doing so they,"reveal, understand and analyse, not only the product of knowledge but its production and therefore, its producer" (Aldridge, 1993:53 [author's original emphasis]). Such work problematises the notion of investigation as a straightforward and impersonal activity and interrogates the power relationships inherent in it. Curricula in Higher Education (HE), on the other hand, often appear simply to have evolved with little open acknowledgement of the cultural, political and personal dimensions of that process.