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UID:pretalx-2026-NEBE7S@conferences.acspri.org.au
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DESCRIPTION:Insider research can provide valuable access to contextual know
 ledge\, shared language and professional understanding\, while also raisin
 g methodological questions about familiarity\, assumptions and researcher 
 positionality. This short video reflects on these issues through a qualita
 tive doctoral study exploring Grade 5 teachers’ perceptions and use of e
 -learning pedagogies in public primary schools in Bisha\, Saudi Arabia.\n\
 nThe study adopted an interpretivist\, bounded case study approach with et
 hnographic and phenomenological sensitivity. Data were generated across th
 ree urban public primary schools through biographical narrative interviews
  with twelve Grade 5 teachers\, documentary analysis\, and a reflexive res
 earch journal. The researcher’s previous professional experience as a pr
 imary school teacher in the same regional context created a distinctive in
 sider position within the research setting.\n\nRather than treating inside
 r status as a fixed advantage or limitation\, the study conceptualises pos
 itionality as relational and continually negotiated. Shared cultural\, lin
 guistic and professional knowledge supported access\, rapport and contextu
 al understanding. At the same time\, familiarity required ongoing attentio
 n to assumptions and to the distinction between participants’ accounts a
 nd the researcher’s prior knowledge and experience.\n\nReflexive journal
 ling provided an important means of documenting these methodological tensi
 ons throughout data generation and analysis. It supported critical reflect
 ion on how researcher experience\, relationships and emerging interpretati
 ons shaped the research process.\n\nThe video argues that insider research
  is better understood as an ongoing process of positional negotiation rath
 er than a simple insider–outsider binary. It highlights reflexivity as a
  practical and analytical resource for making researcher positioning visib
 le and methodologically productive in culturally situated qualitative rese
 arch.
DTSTAMP:20261013T080129Z
LOCATION:Drawing Room
SUMMARY:Researching from Within: Reflexivity\, Positionality and Insider Re
 search in a Saudi Primary School Case Study - Mosaed Al-shahrani
URL:https://conferences.acspri.org.au/2026/talk/NEBE7S/
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