1st Edition

Community-Based Ethnography Breaking Traditional Boundaries of Research, Teaching, and Learning

232 Pages
by Psychology Press

232 Pages
by Psychology Press

232 Pages
by Psychology Press

Co-written by a professor and 10 students, this book explores their attempts to come to grips with fundamental issues related to writing narrative accounts purporting to represent aspects of people's lives. The fundamental project, around which their explorations in writing textual accounts turned, derived from the editor's initial ethnographic question: "Tell me about the [previous] class we did... Read more
Contents: Preface. Reinterpreting Teaching. E. Stringer, Teaching Community Based Ethnography. K. Henry, Community Building in Small Groups. L. Christensen, Philosophical and Pedagogical Development: An Ethnographic Process. R. Petty, Everything is Different Now: Surviving Ethnographic Research. P. Nason, The Impact of Group Interactions on Meaning Making: Learning Qualitative Research Methodology. M.F. Agnello, An Illuminative Account of Personal/Professional Conflict: Loss, Redefinition and Re-Emergence of Self in the Process of Ethnographic Research. D.P. Henry, Reaching Consensus and Writing Collaborative Accounts. V. Newman, Community Ethnography: Reproduction and Resistance in Writing the Collaborative Text. S.C. Baldwin, High School Students' Participation in Action Research: An Ongoing Learning Process. P. Tinsley-Batson, Models for Services/Distributor Relationships. T.P. Katt, A Learning Journey (In Progress): A Personal Biographical Ethnography. E. Stringer, Teaching Re-Interpreted. Appendix: Syllabus: Qualitative Research for Educators.

Biography

Stringer, Ernest T.; Agnello, Mary Frances; Baldwin, Sheila Conant; Christensen, Lois McFayden; Henry, Deana Lee Philb