Bad-faith academic publishing-the case of “Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research”
It is only February and we already have another case of “how did this get through peer review??!!” in social science #highered. The piece in question is an article in Perspectives on Psychological Science , entitled Positionality and Its Problems: Questioning the Value of Reflexivity Statements in Research . It is worth checking in on Twitter as the quote-Tweets on one of the authors’ posts (who disabled direct comments on his Tweet), more than 200 at the time of writing, provide an excellent peer review of the article from a wide range of academics. But is not simply a case of academic debate where authors publish an article and then look forward to engaging in meaningful debates and discussions. Positionality is critical in naming privilege and avoiding perpetuating racist/w. supremacists assumptions. Do the opposite of this👇🏽. https://t.co/1PJSZWT5IP — Awanui Te Huia (@AwanuiTH) February 20, 2023 As a newly minted Dr of the social sciences, any claim of the ‘universalism’ of