ABSTRACT

The focus of this article is on the history and current trends of feminist ethnography in Finland. It highlights the impact of feminist ethnography in Finnish educational research and illustrates how feminist ethnography has succeeded in asking novel questions and developing methodologies by drawing on multiple feminist theories. The article is based on a review of studies, selected to represent the multiplicity of themes, theoretical approaches and methodological epiphanies, as well as earlier analyses and memories of researchers who launched feminist educational ethnography in Finland. Drawing predominantly from the British feminist educational ethnography, in Finland feminist ethnography in education took its first steps in the 1990s and achieved a stable position in the early 2000s. Feminist ethnography has contributed to a debate on social justice by highlighting the hidden modes of discrimination and exclusion in educational institutions, thus ‘troubling’ the national self-image as a forerunner of equality and social justice.

摘要

本文的重点是芬兰女权民族志的历史和当前趋势。它突出了女性主义民族志在芬兰教育研究中的影响，并说明了女性主义民族志如何通过借鉴多种女性主义理论成功提出新问题和发展方法论。这篇文章基于对研究的回顾，选择代表主题的多样性、理论方法和方法论的顿悟，以及在芬兰发起女权主义教育民族志的研究人员的早期分析和记忆。芬兰的女性主义教育民族志主要借鉴英国女性主义教育民族志，在 1990 年代迈出了第一步，并在 2000 年代初期取得了稳定的地位。