Gary Alan Fine’s scientific contributions

... As well as observations, Green used his research journal to capture reflections, meeting regularly with Authors 2 and 3, and the NGL facilitator, all of whom offered their responses to these reflection on the study's progress, the practical challenges encountered and the ethical tensions negotiated. Aspiring to foreground the Changemakers' agency, and attempting to minimise his power advantage as an adult (Atkinson, 2019; Mayne et al., 2018), Green reflected upon the need to approach the sessions in an adapted positionality of the "friendly adult" (Fine, 1987;Van der Smee and Valerio, 2023). Seeking distance from a more authoritarian teacher persona (Raffety, 2015), in Session 1, Green informed the Changemakers that he was not a teacher, but rather a researcher interested in similar issues to themselves. ...

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“Student voice is not as important compared to teachers/adults”: towards critical capacity building for school-based youth participatory action research