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This paper discusses my position as an Arab Muslim woman researcher who is affiliated with a Western university, researching Arab Muslim Canadian women. I discuss how reflexivity has emerged as an element of my research endeavours. Various notions of reflexivity in educational research have been expressed in the literature, yet I focus on what it means to me as an insider-outsider researcher and how it characterizes my research endeavours. In this paper, I explore the complexity of occupying these multiple subjectivities.
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Cet article explore ma position comme chercheure musulmane arabe affiliée à une université occidentale étudiant la vie des femmes canadiennes musulmanes arabes. J’y examine de quelle manière la réflexivité a émergé comme élément de mes projets de recherche. Bien que diverses notions de réflexivité aient été soulevées dans la littérature, je cible ce que cela signifie pour moi en tant que chercheure initiée et observatrice ainsi que de quelle manière cela teinte mes recherches. J’y analyse la complexité d’incarner ces multiples subjectivités.
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AMANI HAMDAN is an adjunct professor at the University of Ottawa. She received the first Canadian Society for the Study of Women in Education (CASWE) award for her PhD dissertation (University of Western Ontario, 2006). Her dissertation was published in 2009 under the title Muslim women speak: A tapestry of lives and dreams (Toronto: Women’s Press).
AMANI HAMDAN est professeure adjoint à l’Université d’Ottawa. Elle a reçu le premier prix de l’Association canadienne pour l’étude sur les femmes et l’éducation (ACÉFÉ) pour sa thèse de doctorat (Université Western Ontario, 2006). Ce travail de recherche a été publié en 2009 sous le titre Muslim women speak: A tapestry of lives and dreams à la maison d’édition torontoise Women’s Press.
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