ABSTRACT
This chapter outlines the key characteristics and concerns of a potential critical reflective space, and addresses both a gap in the literature and some of the key criticisms of participatory research and co-production. Key ideas include the relativity of experience, intersubjectivity, the importance of trying to understand the perspective and 'life world' of others and being 'present' in the moment with people within an 'encounter'. While an admirable ambition in participatory research there are instances where the double consciousness happens across only two people. V. Harris considers that elements of the approach to teaching musical improvisation within jazz education 'could be adapted to the teaching of improvisation to co-production and participatory research practitioners'. In 'Higher education, de-centred subjectivities and the emergence of a pedagogical self among Black and Muslim students' students celebrated that they were now able to 'name experiences and imbue them with meanings and reflexively to articulate self-representations to themselves and others.'.
