If a researcher sees herself as an integral part of the context being studied, interacting with the informants in a process of co-constructing data (see Chapter 3), then it makes sense to write an account where the researcher's role is recognized rather than obscured.
It is sometimes suggested that when a practitioner writes up their research in third person style (the teacher-researcher interviewed the student', rather than 'I interviewed the student), this is dishonest as it attempts to present to present an objective account that underplays the researcher's intimate involvement in the research context, and so give the impression that the (teacher-)research was able to stand back and observe as an outsider.