ABSTRACT
The utilization of innovative research methodologies is important as a best practice for educational professionals. Introducing education professionals and future social science researchers to cutting-edge practices during their professional preparation is a key facet of their education. One of the biggest challenges in teaching qualitative research methods is getting students to understand the importance of researcher reflexivity and the non-neutral positioning of “researchers as instruments” embedded within the social world that they are attempting to study (Creswell, 2007).
