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Ethical Researcher or Vampiric Consumer?

A Post-structural Feminist Researcher’s Reflections on Research Involving the Voices of Young People in Contemporary Australian Schools

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Recent decades have seen a dramatic increase in the number of research projects that seek to listen to the voices of people long rendered silent within educational texts and contexts. Issues of gender, cultural identity, sexuality, ethnicity and socio-economic status inform literally thousands of educationally-based research projects every year.

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  1. Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia

    Leonie Rowan

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  1. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Warren Midgley

  2. Sidra Medical and Research Center, Qatar

    Andy Davies

  3. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Mark E. Oliver

  4. University of Southern Queensland, Australia

    Patrick Alan Danaher

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Rowan, L. (2014). Ethical Researcher or Vampiric Consumer?. In: Midgley, W., Davies, A., Oliver, M.E., Danaher, P.A. (eds) Echoes. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-491-8_4

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