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Navigating queer spaces in Australian tertiary STEM Education: a retrospective autoethnopoetic exploration Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2024-03-14 Philip Kairns, lisahunter, Karen Lambert
This article presents a retrospective autoethnopoetic study exploring a queer student's journey in Australian tertiary STEM education, employing queer research methodologies to illuminate the chall...
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‘I want to go home’: a comparative study of unsafe and safe spaces in two Swedish school-age educare institutions Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2024-03-05 Anna-Lena Borg
In Sweden, many children between the ages of 6 and 9 years attend Swedish school-age educare (SAEC) institutions before and after school, when their parents work or study. This study aimed to explo...
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Engineering comments in doctoral student appointments: biased fabrications and revolving door governance practices in STEM subjects seen from gender equity and academic justice perspectives Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2024-02-23 Dennis Beach
This article derives from ongoing higher education governance research in Sweden using a mix of ethnographic methodologies and data to explore and analyse patterns of gender and class inequality an...
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Segregated schools are not inclusive: the negative effects of segregation on the quality of teaching and learning in a primary school Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Radek Vorlíček
Segregated schools have not been sufficiently explored and reflected upon. The appearance and facilities of these schools have not yet been mapped in detail, nor how they operate day by day. This a...
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‘Cracking the teacher’s code’ – an ethnographic study of students preparing for oral exams Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2024-01-01 Julie Marie Isager
This paper explores students’ preparatory processes for high-stakes exams using Danish oral exams as an example. To graduate, students must convince two teacher-examiners as the state’s representat...
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‘Hitting at the heart of a massive problem’: articulating a democratic education through feminist practices of freedom and urban farm movements in Buenos Aires, Argentina Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-12-18 Jennifer Lee O’Donnell
This ethnographic paper navigates the intersections of feminism, urban farm movements, and democratic education at La Granja Puerta del Sol, a small farm near Buenos Aires, Argentina. Under the ste...
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Social class and streaming in contexts of educational disadvantage: what young people have to say Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Alison Black, Barry Down
This article critically examines the everyday practices of streaming working-class students into vocational education and training pathways in public high schools in Western Australia. It challenge...
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Integration into the host community at schools: a study on Afghan refugee students’ interactions with the Iranian community Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-12-17 Majid Komasi
This paper is based on the results of an ethnography conducted in the context of several junior high schools in the host community of Iran. It draws on the data collected via observations and forty...
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‘Learning to labour’ and the labour of learning: a question of research methods Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Geoffrey Walford
It is now half a century since Joey explained to Paul Willis: ‘Vandalising […] that’s the opposite of boredom – excitement, defying the law’, one of many similar comments subsequently recorded in L...
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As if we were not friends: from (de)objectifying and (re)positioning and back Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-11-01 Sophie Del Fa
Based on three vignettes taken from interviews with friends who were members of a social-ecological transition initiative of which I was both an active participant and a researcher, this paper expl...
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Researching for justice: using meta-ethnographic synthesis to develop knowledge for research for social transformation Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Dennis Beach
In a special issue article on ethnographic synthesis from 2017, Karen Borgnakke addressed some of the challenging methodological questions and dilemmas associated with meta-ethnography by ethnograp...
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How play becomes educational: case study in an out-of-school club in France Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Baptiste Besse-Patin
Based on direct observations in an out-of-school club in France, this paper discusses the different forms of actions grouped under the general term of ‘play’ initiated either by the children or the...
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Circles de confianza: using multimodal testimonios to build culturally sustaining schools Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-08-31 Leah P. Teeters, Michelle Shedro, Adriana Alvarez, Kathy Schultz, Emily Gleason, Julia C. Zigarelli, Blanca Trejo
The intersection of the COVID-19 pandemic, mental health crises, and structural racism has deepened sources of distrust, presenting an urgent need and opportunity to reconfigure schools in ways tha...
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‘You Dutch, not English’: exploring language education policy in pre-school through researcher-child-relationality Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-07-27 Marie Rickert
This paper explores the dynamic and situated nature of language education policy in an Early Childhood Education and Care (ECEC) centre through the lens of researcher-child relationality. Drawing o...
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Exploring the influence of the ethnographic researcher’s role in digital teaching practices in disadvantaged schools Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-07-26 María-Begoña Vigo-Arrazola
For over three decades now, the use of digital devices and media has had a growing impact on educational and teaching practices in schools. Though ethnographic research has documented some of these...
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Ethnomathematics study in measurement of Bengkalis Malay community as mathematics resources for elementary school Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Rena Anriana, Gustimal Witri, Zetra Hainul Putra, Muhammad Fendrik, Dahnilsyah, Ayman Aljarrah
This research seeks to explore the ethnomathematical study of measurements of the Bengkalis Malay community as a study of mathematics instructional material for elementary schools. The method used ...
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‘We will call you madamii’: a researcher’s journey from being viewed as a madame to a madamii by children in a rural village in India Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-07-13 Namrita Batra
Researchers who wish to become insiders to children’s cultural worlds need to genuinely engage with the difference in social power between them and their participants. Most published accounts of ad...
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Building a mosque. Reification and situated learning at the core of an immigrant community of practice Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-07-05 Tomàs Segarra Arnau, Joan A. Traver Martí, María Lozano Estivalis
This paper presents partial results of a broader investigation and focuses on describing a process of reification that took place at the heart of an immigrant community in Sant Mateu (Castelló, Spa...
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‘Where are Asian Americans?’: exploring racialized discourses toward Asian Americans through critical ethnographic child-parent research Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Jinhee Kim
This study employs critical ethnographic child–parent research to examine Korean American children’s lived experiences related to anti-Asian racism, looking closely at children’s ordinary interacti...
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A critical-place ethnography of transfronterizo teachers at the intersections of self-defense, self-creation, and borderlands identity formation Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Jennifer Lee O’Donnell
ABSTRACT Teacher identity work throughout one’s academic studies and career has been shown to have a positive impact on teachers’ resilience and longevity in the field, in contrast to those who do not engage in these kinds of reflexive practices. This research expands our understanding of teacher identities and how they develop within and outside school settings, acknowledging the complex paths teachers
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Microfragmentos of reinvention: ch’ixi food practices with women and children Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-06-13 Veronica Pacini-Ketchabaw, Cristina Delgado Vintimilla
ABSTRACT The article offers microfragmentos of reinvention in response to the incursion of capitalist and neocolonial threats. The microfragmentos – small, broken, and irregular fragments that remain incomplete – are a modest local political initiative growing from an ethnographic project among Cañari women and children in the high Ecuadorian Andes. Three microfragmentos on growing, cooking, and eating
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Guest Editorial: Ethnographies of Education for Social Justice Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Begoña Vigo Arrazola, Jonathan Tummons
Published in Ethnography and Education (Vol. 18, No. 1, 2023)
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Fever pitch: spatial, material, and temporal organisational dimensions of gendered peer relations on the school football pitch Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Camilla Forsberg, Paul Horton, Robert Thornberg
ABSTRACT We investigate the importance of spatial, material, and organisational factors to gendered peer relations on the school football pitch. The study is part of an ethnographic research project exploring the relations between school bullying and the institutional context of schooling, focusing on the perspectives of teachers and pupils from preschool class up to grade eight (approximately ages
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Practices and intellectual requirements for attaining inclusive education and social justice in Initial Teacher Education: ethnography Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-10 David Pérez-Castejón
ABSTRACT Initial teacher education faces the challenge of training future teachers to lead the change in schools towards inclusive education based on social justice. However, the literature reveals that preservice teachers may view inclusive education through the lens of special education. This paper presents a contextualised ethnographic study centred upon data production from the author’s own institution
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Socio-educational support in exercising citizenship: analysis of an out-of-school programme with adolescents Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-10 Janire Fonseca Peso, Concepción Maiztegui-Oñate, Rosa María Santibáñez Grüber
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to analyse the educational strategies used by educators in out-of-school educational programmes for young people between 12 and18 years old. Taking an ethnographic approach, data collection was carried out through participant observation at seven programme sites where the participants assumed different levels of responsibility. The ‘youth-adult partnership’, which
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Collaboration between ethnographers and the educational community of a school in the development of inclusive education Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Jesús Soldevila-Pérez, Joan Jordi Muntaner-Guasp, Mila Naranjo-Llanos
ABSTRACT The main objective of this research is to present and analyse the collaboration process established between the ethnographers and a school that faces the challenge of promoting change towards a more inclusive and social justice model. The methods used to carry out this four-year process were, in essence, participatory observation in multiple contexts, individual interviews and discussion groups
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Illustrations of ethical dilemmas during ethnographic fieldwork: when social justice meets neoliberalism in adult education Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Virginie Thériault, Jean-Pierre Mercier
ABSTRACT This article explores the ethical dilemmas encountered by two ethnographers in adult education research in a context where neoliberalism impacts on education settings, policies, and social justice. Everyday ethical dilemmas arise in thorny situations in which the general ethical principles ethnographers are regulated by cannot help them react or respond in the heat of the moment. The three
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Not your cup of coffee? An ethnographic study on interparental dynamics during parental involvement activities in Dutch primary schools Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-12-20 Talitha Stam, Bonnie French, Nicole Lucassen, Roel van Steensel, Brian Godor, Renske Keizer
ABSTRACT Parental involvement in children’s education contributes to children’s educational success. Most schools, therefore, aim to increase parental involvement and organise school-based activities that provide parents with interaction opportunities with teachers, school administrators, and other parents. Although the impact of parental involvement is studied frequently, little attention has gone
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Being ‘the lowest’: models of identity and deficit discourse in vocational education Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-11-29 Pomme van de Weerd
ABSTRACT This paper critically analyses and aims to denaturalise models of identity that circulate in discourse about vocational education in the Netherlands. It is argued that discourse about the vocational track is characterised by a pervasive focus on deficits, framing vocational education as unprestigious, and its students as unintelligent and insubordinate. The analysis focuses on three levels
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‘Missing school isn’t the end of the world (actually, it might prevent it)’: climate activists resisting adult power, repurposing privileges and reframing education Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Carla Malafaia
ABSTRACT In the current climate crisis, young people are portrayed paradoxically: victims and stakeholders, political protagonists and school truants. Based on ethnographic research with the climate movement, this article explores how youths manage their activism as it interfaces with their socialisation contexts, tracing prevalent adult antagonisms: radicalism, condescension and individualism. Drawing
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Feminist ethnography as ‘Troublemaker’ in educational research: analysing barriers of social justice Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-09-26 Sirpa Lappalainen, Katariina Hakala, Elina Lahelma, Reetta Mietola, Anna-Maija Niemi, Ulla-Maija Salo, Tarja Tolonen
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
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Accumulating summer loss: an ethnographic look into the summer whereabouts and activities of low-income college students Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-09-12 Esther Chihye Kim
ABSTRACT Little is known about college students during their summer break between the first and second years of college, when some students may contemplate whether they will return to college. Using ethnographic method, this article addresses critical questions of low-income college students during their summer breaks of where they go, where they stay, and what they do. Especially for the most vulnerable
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Making art and making sense: youth photoethnographers materialising the invisible through analytic art-making Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Amanda R. Smith
ABSTRACT This paper discusses the potential of participant art-making as an ethnographic analytic method for materialising otherwise invisible experiences in the everyday lives of people. To describe this methodology, I share examples from a two year project conducted in a photography classroom in the northeastern United States. Teenage participants made photoethnographic self-studies about their engagement
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Dialogues, actions and discourses of a rural head teacher and an ethnographer in search of a fairer and more inclusive school Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-08-06 Katherine Gajardo Espinoza, Luis Torrego-Egido
ABSTRACT This article studies the dialogues, agreements, and actions in defence of a fairer and more inclusive school, carried out during ethnographic research in a Spanish rural school between 2019 and 2021, the period in which an ethnographer accompanied the professional work of the school principal, also the tutor of a class group. The research is carried out from a critical approach and uses participant
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Social inequality as exclusion in a rural school Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-07-23 Laura Rayón, Ana María de las Heras, Elena Bañares
ABSTRACT The present paper highlights that social inequality in some rural regions can substantially and harshly affect school coexistence. The present study is carried out in a Spanish rural school, and it aimed to understand which factors affected coexistence and generated situations of exclusion. Participant observation and the different voices in contrast – students and teachers – reveal how the
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What sexuality education teaches and what young girls want to learn: voices from an Ethiopian primary school Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-07-05 Siyane Aniley Amentie, Elisabet Öhrn, Temesgen Fereja
ABSTRACT This article reports on an ethnographic study to understand the practices of sexuality education (SE) in relation to what young girls want to learn in a primary school Ethiopia. This is done by means of school observations, FGD with female students and interviews with SE teachers. The study shows the observed SE focuses mainly on issues of HIV/AIDS and abstinence, which left the interviewed
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Class, migrant background and misrecognition of capital in the university admission Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-23 Sonja Kosunen, Anna-Maija Niemi, Linda Maria Laaksonen
ABSTRACT In this article, we discuss how class and migrant background intersect when students discuss their studies in general upper secondary education and their aspirations in university admission. We focus on the discussed social inequalities in student admission to one of the elite fields, medicine, in eight ethnographic interviews with students and fieldnotes concerning observations in two general
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Intercultural sailing ethnography: methodological challenges and reflexivity across the North Sea Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-20 Yujun Xu
ABSTRACT This paper presents an ethnography study that explores the formulation of interculturality from the unique experiences of sail trainees who were bound by space and time during a sailing voyage across the North Sea. The author immersed herself as a mentor-researcher into a 107-year-old tall ship’s expedition, sailing across 1000 nautical miles. Empirical data were collected and analysed, ranging
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Sacrifice, suffering and hope: education, aspiration and young people’s affective orientations to the future Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-06-06 Peggy Froerer, Nicola Ansell, Roy Huijsmans
ABSTRACT In this editorial introduction to the Special Theme, Sacrifice, Suffering and Hope: Education, Aspiration and Young People’s Affective Orientations to the Future, we discuss the key theoretical themes (aspiration, sacrifice and affect) that underpin the papers in this collection. With geographical focus on India, Indonesia, Kenya and Bangladesh, our aim is to contribute a more ethnographically-grounded
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Affective experiences and expressions in institutional context: the case of a boarding school for Indigenous students in India Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Christine Finnan
ABSTRACT The 22,500 Indigenous students attending an Indian boarding school sacrifice living with family to essentially grow up in an institutional setting, in part to receive free education but also because they believe in the school’s promise of a bright future. In this context, students’ affective expressions and experiences are moulded by an all-enveloping institutional environment. The article
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Education as future breakfast: children’s aspirations within the context of poverty in Siaya Kenya Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Elizabeth Ngutuku
ABSTRACT This paper draws on ethnographic data to explore children’s aspirations through education within the context of poverty and vulnerability in Siaya Kenya. Since several children reported eating onge (nothing) for breakfast, they hoped that education would enable them to eat and enjoy a good future. I demonstrate that aspirations as orientations towards desired futures have affective dimensions
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Affect and trust in educational migration of young people from provincial towns in Indonesia Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-05-10 Wenty Marina Minza, Safura Intan Herlusia
ABSTRACT This study aims to understand trust and affect that are developed during young people’s educational migration from West Kalimantan to Yogyakarta, Indonesia. It further questions to what extent trust encourages migration and young migrants’ adaptation at the place of destination. In-depth interview and participant observation are utilised for gathering ethnographic data. Nine young people,
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What can Bourdieu offer the ethnographer in neoliberal times: reflecting on methodological possibilities Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Michelle Cottle
ABSTRACT This article demonstrates how Bourdieu’s field theory can be used to systematise ethnographic insights, establishing and validating connections between the micro-level of participants’ experiences and macro-level contexts, whilst complementing and facilitating the reflexivity that has long been part of ethnographic traditions. Combining an ethnographic methodological design with a Bourdieusian
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To be respectable, to be good – aspirations of young people in the context of everyday precariousness in Bangladesh Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-04-20 Jiniya Afroze
ABSTRACT This article explores how young people navigate their aspiration to education and work within precariousness in a camp in Bangladesh. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted at an Urdu-speaking Bihari camp in Dhaka, Bangladesh, the findings presented in this paper illustrate how gender and generational expectations play mediating roles in young people’s aspiration formation. The discussions
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Co-authoring speeches, constructing collective identity: Brazilian youth movements from ethnographic and discursive analytic perspectives Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-04-14 Alice Y. Taylor
ABSTRACT Youth movements rose in Brazil in the past decade, fighting for equitable access to education alongside plural – anti-capitalist, anti-racist, and feminist – struggles. This article examines interactions by which Brazilian youth activists organise, politicise, and define who constitutes a movement. It focuses on a 2019 public hearing to defend race- and class-based affirmative action. Taking
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Thanks to referees Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-03-25
(2022). Thanks to referees. Ethnography and Education: Vol. 17, No. 1, pp. 89-89.
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Gatekeepers, guides and ghosts: intermediaries impacting access to schools during COVID-19 Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-03-17 Michelle Striepe, Christine Cunningham
ABSTRACT This article reflects on the effect of gatekeepers, guides and ghosts on gaining access to research participants and field sites. Using a critically reflective approach, we examine our role as researchers and the roles of intermediaries in the process to access schools during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings show how gaining access is a non-linear process that is influenced by the agency
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Disputed futures: rural entrepreneurship and migration in postsecondary trajectories on the Ecuador–Colombia Border Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-03-15 Diana Rodríguez-Gómez
ABSTRACT This article examines the future as a technique of government aimed at controlling young people’s relationships to the present. It analyses the futures deemed feasible in a school located in a border area affected by the Colombian armed conflict. Based on ethnographic data collected primarily between 2013 and 2014, this study highlights the future’s regulatory nature and the types of commitments
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Navigating conflicting desires: parenting practices and the meaning of educational work in urban East Asia Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Kristina Göransson, Yoonhee Kang, Yeonjin Kim
ABSTRACT Today parents are faced with increasing expectations to attend to their young children’s learning and cognitive development. South Korea and Singapore are well-known for their competitive education systems and for consistently topping international student assessment tests. They also share an inflated private tuition industry, fuelled by the assumption that parents are compelled to invest
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Writing and theorising with photographs taken by children Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-02-16 Kristiina Eskelinen, Ulla-Maija Salo
ABSTRACT In this article, inspired by the idea of using data to think with theory [Jackson, A., and L. Mazzei. 2012. Thinking with Theory in Qualitative Research: Viewing Data Across Multiple Perspectives. London: Routledge], we explore how our ethnographic visual data will be ‘thought’, ‘theorised’ and verbalised using concepts such as the photo elicitation method, punctum and the decisive moment
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Towards a contemplative approach to ethnography and education: an ethnography of a contemplative classroom at a North American university Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2022-02-10 Yuki Imoto
ABSTRACT This paper gives an ethnographic account of a contemplative class at an elite university in the US. The contemplative class, which incorporates mindfulness-based practices, took on the function of unravelling time, and of challenging the credit-oriented culture of the university. The opening up of time and credits allows for a safe communal space to explore ‘vulnerability’ and ‘authenticity’
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The Northern European Band: A Swedish school in Africa - An ethnographic study Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2021-12-22 Peter Erlandson, Mathias Bengtsson Lau
ABSTRACT All over the world, there are schools that represent a different educational system and a different curriculum than the country these schools are situated in. Swedish Schools in turn are located in different parts of the world. The main purpose of this study is to describe and analyse some aspects of the social life at one of these schools, as well as some aspects of the relationship between
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Change as technology in a Swedish secondary high school Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2021-12-20 Peter Erlandson, Mikael R. Karlsson
ABSTRACT This article addresses the fact that local school practices in Sweden today seem to be under constant change as a consequence of the ongoing and forceful neoliberalisation of society that has been going on for about three decades. The pressure on teachers and school leaders has increased due to school rankings and quality assessment has become an important instrument for administrators and
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So much to offer: an exploration of learning and cultural wealth with Roma Slovak post-16 students Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2021-11-02 John Doyle
ABSTRACT The newly arrived Roma Slovak community in a large urban city in the north of England has been widely perceived as having a myriad of social problems and there is a conflict with the wider community. This paper presents the results of a project to explore barriers and possibilities for the social and educational integration of newly arrived Roma Slovak migrants in the UK. The research carried
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Decoding the rules of schooling – instruction of recently immigrated adolescents with emergent literacy in a language introductory school in Sweden Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Anna Winlund
ABSTRACT This article investigates the rules of schooling which might be new to recently immigrated adolescents with few prior experiences of school-based learning. The purpose was to study how the ‘external grammar’ (Gee 2005)—i.e. the thoughts, beliefs, values, actions and social interactions—associated with a classroom was negotiated in a language introductory school in Sweden. The ethnographic
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Critiquing the use of children’s voice as a means of forging the community in a Polish democratic school Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2021-10-15 Katarzyna Gawlicz, Zsuzsa Millei
ABSTRACT The paper examines school meetings held in a small democratic school in Poland in order to explore how school communities are formed. Drawing on Foucault’s concept of power, the authors analyse fieldnotes and interview excerpts to reveal how voice and scripted bodily expressions accompanying verbal utterances are privileged in these school meetings to forge a community. Rather than being merely
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De-politicised effects with networked governance? An event ethnography study on education trade fairs Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2021-09-16 Catarina Player-Koro, Anna Jobér, Annika Bergviken Rensfeldt
ABSTRACT This paper explores educational trade fairs as part of the contemporary networked governance of public sector education. The focus is on the forms and functions of network governance in educational trade fairs and how different powers of private and public networking actors and ideas are played out, including the wider implications for education. Based on an event ethnographic case study of
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Ethnomathematics study of Minangkabau tribe: formulation of mathematical representation in the Marosok traditional trading Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2021-08-23 Nurjanah Nurjanah, Isra Mardia, Turmudi Turmudi
ABSTRACT This research aims to explore the use of ethnomathematics in revealing mathematical representations and in the formulation of a calculation system used in the Marosok trading tradition by the Minangkabau tribe in West Sumatra. Ethnomathematics studies ideas in various cultural activities practiced by ethnic, social, or professional groups. The tradition involves nonverbal communication, such
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Peter’s positions: a diffractive analysis of authority in a year one classroom Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2021-07-27 Hannes Leuschner
ABSTRACT This article presents an ethnography of the entanglement of space, learning and teaching bodies and pedagogical authority in a primary school in Germany. We focus on the spatial placement of a boy diagnosed with ‘special needs’. Inspired by Carol Taylor’s analysis of a male teacher’s authority at a college. we describe the boy’s changeable seating position first with de Certeau’s spatial understanding
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Transborder pedagogies of the home in contexts of forced repatriation Ethnography and Education Pub Date : 2021-08-04 Sarah Gallo
ABSTRACT Drawing from an ethnographic study with families who relocated from the United States to Mexico, I explore what I call parents’ transborder pedagogies of the home, or the home-based educational practices that adults with experiences across transnational institutions draw upon to prepare their children for life and learning on both sides of the border. I argue it is important to understand