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In Praise of Old Wives

In Praise of Old Wives

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 ‘Old wives tales’, such as ‘eat fish, it’s brain food’, tend to include knowledge gained through quiet observation over many years, perhaps several generations, and are spread quietly through informal social networks. How can we recognise and capture them in research? Much research is ‘hit and run’ research, where the author benefits and the people whose ideas and information are taken are ignored. This is not good, and recognising different voices, including those of old wives, is a matter of respect. With practice, we can find that the insights gained from articles and books are matched by the insights gained from those living respondents often anonymised or completely ignored by researchers. As academic writers, we can bridge the ‘official’ writings of other academics and the knowledge and understanding of those not yet present in the literature. (And old literature currently ignored in books and articles.) Old wives need praising.

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