ethnography maija lanas 2013
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ETHNOGRAPHY Maija Lanas 2013. Ethnography is a specific research methodology . Also a useful skill for practitioners everywhere . ETHNOGRAPHY AND TEACHERS. ” Education should have chosen anthropology not psychology as is basis ”. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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ETHNOGRAPHYMaija Lanas 2013
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Ethnography is a specific research methodology. Also a useful skill for practitioners everywhere.
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ETHNOGRAPHY AND TEACHERS
”Education should have chosen anthropology not psychology as is basis”
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The world and the society are not static entities that exist outside of us but they are constantly produced (by us).
School and education are not ’out there’ or in the future, but right here and now, and they are (partly) produced through the actions of those working with them.
It is the responsibility of those agents to know what they are doing.
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They must be able to:
- study their own actions and role
- study the actions and role of the other agents
- place this into a broader context: - e.g. what kind of society is being
produced through these actions
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Ethnography
• Intent: to provide a detailed, in-depth description of everyday life and practice.
• Common fields of science: Anthropology, sociology
• Method: participant observation (sometimes interviews), “Being there”, immersion
• In educational sciences: School ethnography
• A common question: “What is going on here?” BUT: Direct gaze
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Ethnography and emotions
Detached researcher
”taking it personally”
Vs.
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Stereotype of cultural anthropologist ethnographer on a pacific island, taking notes, drawing ”objective” conclusions. Making strange familiar. critique?
Ethnography: BEING THERE, IMMERSION
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Main critique:
What was assumed to be objective was, in fact, just eurocentric and malecentric.
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Making familiar strange
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MY RESEARCH: ”Smashing potatoes, challenging student agency as utterances”
Finding a new, previously unheard and unrecognized perspective to Finnish education.
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Ethnography
• 4 months, living in a reindeer herding village with my family
• School ethnography: participant observation in the school 4-6 hours a day
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StudentsTeachersParentsNotebookRoundingsCookiesFriendsOwn childrenNature
In practice
RELIES ON EXPERIENGING, PERCEIVING, LISTENING, HEARING, OBSERVING
How do you know when you have digged up the TRUTH?
How do you eliminate bias?
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Reality as:
Interpersonal, Socially constructed
ONTOLOGY
Knowledge as:
Situational,Socially constructed, personal
EPISTEMOLOGY
How do you know when you have digged up the TRUTH?
RELIES ON EXPERIENGING, PERCEIVING, LISTENING, HEARING, OBSERVING
How do you eliminate bias?
There are multiple
truths
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Knowledge as:
Situational,Socially constructed, personal
EPISTEMOLOGY
How do you know when you have digged up the TRUTH? There are
multiple truths
TRUTH about challenging student agency?
- To challenge structures?- To aggravate the teacher?- Caused by personal traumas?- Misunderstandings?- Chemistry?- In the relationship?
”TRUTH” is about power
Hold the complexity
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Reality as:
Interpersonal, Socially constructed
ONTOLOGY
How do you eliminate bias?
(Reduction), positioning, reflecting, mapping out the process of constructing knowledge. Back it up, justify the claims, be logical.
Some other researcher would not ask the same questions or reach
the same conclusions.
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