2. Reviewing Literature is like Persuading an Octopus into a
Glass
Kamler & Thompson (2006) Chapter 3
3. Reflection, Reflexivity and Self
It has taken me 11 years to start this PhD. It is 11.50am and I have not
written a word. I sat down at 10am. I am terrified and a bit panicky. I
light a cigarette. I was going to read about the concept of
empowerment but I am not ready for that. I don’t have enough
resources to go there yet, but I am going to have to meet empowerment
again. But I have to be ready. I manage to read the article by Kamler
and Thompson (2006) where they speak of water but not in the same
way as I do. Navigating the literature is not stormy for me. The literature
is calm and confident and enticing but I feel like an outsider trying to
emulate that feeling. It does not make me feel tumultuous but resigned
in a way to feel like I cannot get in there. I need to become part of it but
that is the problem. I don’t feel worthy. Later on Kamler & Thompson
liken the literature review to a dinner party conversation but is up to me
who I can invite to the table. I am calmer. For now I will invite them for
tea…a tea party… it is all I can manage. The dinner party is a long way
off.
4. At the Moment I see the Literature Review as Alice’s Tea
Party in Alice in Wonderland!
5. I want it to look like an elegant dinner party!
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6. I have to think about The Guest List
What literature will I use?
Academic Identity
Habitus
Ambiguity
Freedom
Autonomy
Threat
Nature of Change
Nursing & Midwifery
Higher Education
Transformational
Learning
Social Psychology
Socialisation
Social Identity
Theory
Psychology of
Work
7. Streamlining The VIP List
Stronbach et
al (2002)
Nixon et al
(1998)
Williams (2008)
Knight et al
(2006)
Kreber
(2000)
Akerlind &
Kayrooz (2003)
Williams (2008)
Henkel (2005)
Clegg (2008)
Bleiklie &
Byrkjeflot
(2002)
Findlow (2012)
Mc Namara
(2006; 2010)
Trowler &
Beecher (2001)
Trigwell et al
(2000)
8. Developing Research Questions
How did academic identity develop for nurse
lecturers since their transition to the higher education
context?
What was the experience of the development of
academic identity for nurse lecturers?
How do nurse lecturers describe their academic
identity?
What do nurse lecturers consider to be the central
components of their academic identity?
9. Challenges
Insider
• I am a native in the field of research. (Mercer,
2006; Brannick & Coughlan, 2007)
Reciprocal
• Therapeutic interaction (Eide & Kahn, 2008)
Ethics
• Confidentiality
10. Method
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Qualitative
Humanism
Self as research
instrument
Holistic
Phenomenography
1970’s Sweden
Educational research
Variation in experience
Interviews
Editor's Notes
Not v pretty.
Made a big impression on my thinking about lit review.
This is a qualitative project and central to this is the location of the self. Feelings are honest..but actually superficial. See Etherington
Premise/hunch that ac identity is ambigious
Culture of marketization and super complexity.
New work contexts
I know that they will talk to each other. Each has a good perspective/empirical/philosophy/etc..