Validity and Self-Reflexivity Meet Poststructural ism: Scientific Ethos and the

Let the data speak for themselves, these scientists say. The trouble with that argument is, of course, that data never do speak for themselves. —Evelyn Fox Keller (1985) The field of educational research is currently a fertile site for the proliferation of new forms of and new ap-proaches to inquiry. In the struggles for legitimacy of these new forms, the idea of what constitutes "valid " work has gone through many changes (See, for example, Alcoff