1st Edition

Fieldnotes in Qualitative Education and Social Science Research Approaches, Practices, and Ethical Considerations

Edited By Casey Burkholder, Jennifer Thompson Copyright 2020
314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

314 Pages
by Routledge

Building upon the incorporation of fieldnotes into anthropological research, this edited collection explores fieldnote practices from within education and the social sciences. Framed by social justice concerns about power in knowledge production, this insightful collection explores methodological questions about the production, use, sharing, and dissemination of fieldnotes. Particular... Read more

List of figures

List of tables

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgments

Series Editor Foreword

What about Fieldnotes: An introduction

Jennifer Thompson and Casey Burkholder

Part I

Producing fieldnotes

    1. Writing in my little red book: The process of taking fieldnotes in primary school case study research in Kirinyaga, Kenya
      Catherine Vanner
    2. Fieldnotes as a square dance: What can be learned through a metaphor
      Wendy Crocker and Lori McKee
    3. Fieldnotes in marginal landscapes: Toward an Anthropocene ethic of care for small things
      Jennifer MacLatchy
    4. Fieldnotes as an imbricated space of observation, interpretation, analysis, and reflexivity
      Soon Young Jang
    5. Reflexive uncertainty: Fieldnotes and emotion in participatory visual research
      Jennifer Thompson
    6. Part II

      Using fieldnotes

    7. When fieldnotes don't work as expected: The challenges of team research with war-affected populations
      Bree Akesson and Kearney Coupland
    8. "I Pray you catch me listening": Activating fieldnotes for building cultural health capital
      LaShaune Johnson
    9. Performing fieldtexts
      Mary Ott
    10. The poetry of fieldnotes
      Adam Vincent
    11. The editing and rewriting of fieldnotes in ethnographic research
      Cecilia Vindrola-Padros
    12. Part III

      Sharing fieldnotes

    13. Fieldnotes as private, public, and rhetorical achievement
      Dmitri Detwyler
    14. Co-production, friendship, and transparency in Anthropological fieldnotes
      Janneke Verheijen and Sjaak van der Geest
    15. Bumbling along together: Producing collaborative fieldnotes
      Andrea Wojcik, Rachel Allison, and Anna Harris
    16. Vlogging as sense-making: Fostering diffractive practitioners
    17. Julie Rust and Sarah Altman

    18. Analyzing a public digital archive of comic-style fieldnotes
      Casey Burkholder
    19. Part IV

      Reflecting on fieldnotes practice

    20. Fieldnotes and lived experience of housing precarity: Co-creating transparent research practices for social change
      Jayne Malenfant
    21. Reconceptualising fieldnotes: The materiality of making knowledge for an embodied, dialogical, creative understanding of self-other
      Daisy Pillay, Simita Sharan and Jacquie Hendrikse
    22. Queering fieldnote practice with queer, trans, and non-binary populations
      Amelia Thorpe

Index

Biography

Casey Burkholder is Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of New Brunswick, Canada.

Jennifer A. Thompson is Postdoctoral Fellow in the School of Psychoeducation at Université de Montréal, Canada.