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Unsettling Knowledge Synthesis Methods Using Institutional Ethnography: Reflections on the Scoping Review as a Critical Knowledge Synthesis Tool.
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Qualitative Health Research . Dec2020, Vol. 30 Issue 14, p2361-2373. 13p. - Publication Year :
- 2020
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Abstract
- Scoping reviews are an increasingly popular knowledge synthesis method. While knowledge synthesis methods abound in evidence-based practices, these methods are critiqued for their reliance on positivism. Drawing on a scoping review that mapped scholarly conceptualizations of family caregivers' information-related dementia care work, in this article, I reconcile institutional ethnography's epistemological and ontological assumptions with the prescribed scoping review framework. I first explore the textual organization of scoping reviews. I then unpack the process of modifying three scoping review stages in keeping with an institutional ethnography method of inquiry, and in doing so, transform the scoping review into a critical knowledge synthesis tool. Through a reflexive process, I deconstruct scoping review's textual authority and uncover that scoping reviews bring about a double decontextualization of family caregivers' information work, removing family caregivers from their experiences of their information-related care work while simultaneously reducing them to objects of techno-scientific interventions. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 10497323
- Volume :
- 30
- Issue :
- 14
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Qualitative Health Research
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 146871922
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1177/1049732320949167