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ETHNOGRAPHY Maija Lanas 2013

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 ”.

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ETHNOGRAPHY Maija Lanas 2013

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  1. ETHNOGRAPHYMaija Lanas 2013

  2. Ethnography is a specificresearchmethodology. Also a usefulskill for practitionerseverywhere.

  3. ETHNOGRAPHY AND TEACHERS ”Educationshouldhavechosenanthropologynotpsychology as is basis”

  4. 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.

  5. 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

  6. 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

  7. Ethnography and emotions Detachedresearcher Vs. ”takingitpersonally”

  8. Ethnography: BEING THERE, IMMERSION Stereotype of cultural anthropologist ethnographer on a pacific island, taking notes, drawing ”objective” conclusions. Making strange familiar.  critique?

  9. Main critique: What was assumed to be objective was, in fact, just eurocentric and malecentric.

  10. Making familiar strange

  11. MY RESEARCH: ”Smashingpotatoes, challengingstudentagency as utterances” Finding a new, previously unheard and unrecognized perspective to Finnish education.

  12. Ethnography • 4 months, living in a reindeer herding village with my family • School ethnography: participant observation in the school 4-6 hours a day

  13. In practice How do you know when you have digged up the TRUTH? How do you eliminate bias? Students Teachers Parents Notebook Roundings Cookies Friends Own children Nature RELIES ON EXPERIENGING, PERCEIVING, LISTENING, HEARING, OBSERVING

  14. How do you know when you have digged up the TRUTH? Knowledge as: Situational, Socially constructed, personal EPISTEMOLOGY There are multiple truths How do you eliminate bias? Reality as: Interpersonal, Socially constructed ONTOLOGY RELIES ON EXPERIENGING, PERCEIVING, LISTENING, HEARING, OBSERVING

  15. How do you know when you have digged up the TRUTH? Knowledge as: Situational, Socially constructed, personal EPISTEMOLOGY There are multiple truths • TRUTH aboutchallengingstudentagency? • To challengestructures? • To aggravate the teacher? • Causedbypersonaltraumas? • Misunderstandings? • Chemistry? • In the relationship? • ”TRUTH” is aboutpower Hold the complexity

  16. (Reduction), positioning, reflecting, mapping out the process of constructingknowledge. Back itup, justify the claims, belogical. Someotherresearcherwouldnotask the samequestionsorreach the sameconclusions. How do you eliminate bias? Reality as: Interpersonal, Socially constructed ONTOLOGY

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