Outsider/insider This is a term used by Hanrahan (1998, p.316) states, “the insider-outsider problem is only a problem in a positivistic system. In a world where difference is allowed and dialogue replaces domination or consensus, inclusion or exclusion become less relevant terms”. Hanrahan is talking about power dynamics in the classroom. Durrant (2015) hopes to deconstructs the traditional power dynamics and instead calls his project volunteers ‘co-participants’ and counts himself as a co-participant in the research process. Coghlan and Brannick (2014) in, Insider Action Research talks about the Insider/outsider phenomenon and how it is often discussed by researcher practitioners in regards to Action Research. There are pitfalls associated insider/outsider, Noffke & Somekh (2013) state that when the researcher is an insider in an organisation, power relations and differentials may complicate the conduct. Researchers might be pressured or coerced to alter the fi