Exploring the secret garden of further education professional development: reflecting on the researcher’s honesties and opening the honesty box

Pendrey, Annie

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Pendrey, Annie (2025) Exploring the secret garden of further education professional development: reflecting on the researcher’s honesties and opening the honesty box. Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 30 (1). pp. 45-60. ISSN Print: 1359-6748 Online: 1747-5112

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Abstract:

This article engages in an examination of reflecting upon a researcher’s honesties within the context of conducting an Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA). The purpose of this article is to outline how a researcher’s reflexivity and awareness of emotions is central to IPA research which investigates Further Education practitioners’ lived experiences of the Advanced Teacher Status (ATS), and its potential impact upon practitioners’ professional identity and agency.

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Advanced Teacher Status, Chartered Teacher Status, Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis, reflexivity, honesty, Further Education

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College of Arts, Humanities and Education > School of Education

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Institute of Education

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© 2025 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group., This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivativesLicense (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/)

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27 Mar 2025 12:20

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30 Mar 2026 12:38

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