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| What can Ethnography help you study? |
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Determine a population's characteristics
Understand a Social Problem
Describe how individuals in a group see a particular event
Present what makes people do what they do
Provide information that will help plan a project
Provide info to people that fund a program
Provide Information that wiell help to interperet or explain outcomes |
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What questions can ethnography be used to answer in schools? |
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The quality of a given school program or new curriculum
The meaning or interpretation given to a school event or issue
How a classroom, school, or district is functioning.
The social context of the school, and or relationships of the school.
Teacher's ideas about teaching and learning
The Proxemics (use of space) and Kinesics (body language of classroom behavior |
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What is the key to Ethnographic Study?
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Language is the key to ethnographic study.
Consider the Following...
How can a child's spoken and written work suggest their process of literacy development?
What can we learn about the ideas and emotions of different groups by the way language is used to express affect?
What can we learn about social and interpersonal aspects of power and control by looking at (the patterns of) initiations and responses in converstations.
How are words used to build group relationships among and between girls and boys? What kinds of relationships are built?
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| What does"Operationalizing" a group refer to? |
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Operationalizing is locating a specific group that has the characteristics that you need for your study and describing that group. |
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What does "Bounding" Group Refer to?
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Bounding a group refers to describing the characteristics of the group to set both boundaries and limits. |
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| An ethnographer is responsible for doing the following |
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- Listening
- Observing
- Recording
- Organizing
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| A local's or insider's point of view. |
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| An outsider's perspective on local life. |
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| In the Participant Observation Method, researchers do the following.... |
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Record Detailed Fieldnotes
Conduct Interviews Based on Open-Ended Questions
Gather Available Site Documents
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How can an Ethnographer show triangulation?
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Fieldnotes
Interviews
Site Documents |
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| Why develop a question before beginning fieldwork? |
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| Having a guiding question before beginning fieldwork is a good idea because it gives you some way to focus your attention productively in early visits to your fieldsite. |
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| What is Multi-Sited Fieldwork and why would it be used? |
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| "Multi-sited" fieldwork, which allows ethnographers to engage in research in more than one location in order to compare the differences. |
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| What does it mean for an ethnographer to negotiate entry into a fieldsite? |
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| This involves getting permission to visit the site for research purposes from members and often from a person in authority (who is usually referred to as a gatekeeper. |
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How do Ethnographers gain the cultural insight that they desire? |
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Researchers engage in participant observation in order to gain insight into cultural practices and phenomena.
These insights develop over time and through repeated analysis of many aspects of our fieldsites. To make this work, ethnographers must learn how to take useful and reliable notes regarding the details of life in their particular context. These fieldnotes will constitute a major part of the data on which later conclusions will be based. |
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Chiseri-Strater and Sunstein (1997) have developed a list of what should be included in all fieldnotes.
Name the things that should be included when writing fieldnotes. |
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- Date, time, and place of observation
- Specific facts, numbers, details of what happens at the site
- Sensory impressions: sights, sounds, textures, smells, tastes
- Personal responses to the fact of recording fieldnotes
- Specific words, phrases, summaries of conversations, and insider language
- Questions about people or behaviors at the site for future investigation
- Page numbers to help keep observations in order
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| What are the Four Major Parts of Fieldnotes? |
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| 1. Jottings are the brief words or phrases written down while at the fieldsite or in a situation about which more complete notes will be written later. |
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| What is Description in Ethnographic Research? |
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| With description, you focus primarily on things you did or observed which relate to the guiding question, some amount of general information is also helpful. This information might help in writing a general description of the site later, but it may also help to link related phenomena to one another or to point our useful research directions later. |
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| What is analysis in Ethnography? |
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This is how you will make links between the details in your description and the larger things you are learning about how culture works in this context.
What themes can you begin to identify regarding your guiding question?
What questions do you have to help focus your observation on subsequent visits?
Can you begin to draw preliminary connections or potential conclusions based on what you learned? |
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What is the signifigance of REFLECTION in ethnography?
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This is how you will make links between the details described in section 2 above and the larger things you are learning about how culture works in this context. What themes can you begin to identify regarding your guiding question? What questions do you have to help focus your observation on subsequent visits? Can you begin to draw preliminary connections or potential conclusions based on what you learned? |
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