Access, a zone of comprehension and intrusion / edited by Brinda Jegatheesan.

Includes bibliographical references.

Access, a zone of comprehension, and intrusion / Robert Stake and Brinda Jegatheesan -- Inappropriate closeness in fieldwork?: a view from anthropology of education / Frederick Erickson -- Interconnecting lives: examining privacy as a shared concern for the researched and researchers / Jan Bourne-Day and Geraldine Lee-Treweek -- Informed consent: an instrumental or deceptive principle in qualitative educational research / Sabar -- Privacy and intrusion in ethnographic health research / Debjani Mukherjee -- Irbs and the turn to indigenous research ethics / Norman K. Denzin -- Transforming research through indigenous cultural protocols: issues of access, privacy, and respect / Tiffany S. Lee -- Crossing borders? Doing gendered ethnographies of third-world organisations / Anne Ryen -- The self of the investigator in research with human beings / Klaus Witz.

"This volume examines the nature and seriousness of fieldworkers' problems of failure to gain access, achieve comprehension, and avoid intrusion. To do all three, fieldworkers need understanding and respect of the people from whom they seek data as well as be consciously and critically aware of staging field relationships knotted with tensions of estrangement, involvement, familiarity and distance. In the nine chapters of this volume, the authors speak of access to human subjects data, dealing with methods and concerns about intrusion. Attention is given to past and current practices of personalistic studies, particularly in education, and the need for improved protection of participants."--Jacket.