"Self- Portrait" – A Study of the 'Self':

In this chapter:
3.1 The Voice of the Researcher
Chapter 3:
DESIGNING THE RESEARCH
3.2 Subject and Character of the Research
3.2.1 Research Subject and Research Question
3.2.2 Development of the Research Question
3.3 Research Disciplines
3.4 The Research Participants
3.4.1 The Researcher
3.4.2 The Circle of Subjectivity
3.4.3 The Research Object
3.5 The Research Question
Summary
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3.1 The Voice of the Researcher
In this chapter I descend to earth from the panoramic view of the last chapter and present my research
in more tangible terms. I set out the subject of the study, its environment, participants, tools, objectives
and limits.
When Foucault (2005) asks the question "What is a writer?" he asks, among other things, what kind of
presence does the writer have as a subject in the text and what role he fills there. "How, and according
to what conditions and forms can something like a subject appear in a discourse?" (p. 59). This is the
question a qualitative researcher has to deal with in writing his thesis.
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