%0 Journal Article
%T Troubling Fieldwork: When Critical Events/Incidents in Classroom Fieldwork Provoke
%A Jennifer Sink McCloud
%J Qualitative Inquiry
%@ 1552-7565
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1077800418792947
%X In this autoethnography, I reflect on troubling fieldwork dilemmas I experienced while conducting qualitative research in a high school English as a Second Language (ESL) classroom. Here, I trouble¡ªinterrogate and raise questions about¡ªtwo events involving JanCarlos, a student from Honduras. Using dialogue and reflexive internal dialogue, I present how the events were critical for him in that they altered the trajectory of his school experience and represented ¡°critical incidents¡± in my research as they provoked emotional responses, interrupted my objective stance, and altered my interpretations. As I watched events unfold, I routinely asked the relational ethical question¡ª¡°What should I do now?¡± In so doing, I critically reflect on fieldwork dilemmas and make transparent my position/power in creating knowledge
%K autoethnography
%K ethnographies
%K methodologies
%K critical pedagogy
%K pedagogy
%K ethics
%K IRBs and academic freedoms
%K decolonizing the academy
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1077800418792947