Open AccessResearch in Special Education: Using a Research Poem as a Guide for Relationship Building
Author(s) -
Rama Cousik
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2014.1210
Subject(s) - poetry , construct (python library) , qualitative research , psychology , field (mathematics) , expression (computer science) , sociology , social psychology , epistemology , pedagogy , social science , literature , computer science , art , philosophy , mathematics , pure mathematics , programming language
Building positive relationships with participants is an important component of qualitative research in the field of special education. Research poems allow expression of the evolution of participant-researcher relationship in a sensitive and nuanced manner. In this paper, I use a research poem about gardening to demonstrate how a researcher can construct a positive relationship with his/her participants. Each line of the poem represents the sequence and evolution of relationship development between the researcher and families who participated in the research.