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Sybing, Roehl – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2023
This paper aims to critique approaches to qualitative coding that carry a bottom-up or inductive thinking. Despite the wide contributions of this epistemology to the social sciences, this paper contends that contemporary research and methodological debates have inadequately explored different epistemologies for coding. As such, this paper proposes…
Descriptors: Coding, Logical Thinking, Epistemology, Social Science Research
Anais Roque; Amber Wutich; Alexandra Brewis; Melissa Beresford; Laura Landes; Olga Morales-Pate; Ramon Lucero; Wendy Jepson; Yushiou Tsai; Michael Hanemann – Field Methods, 2024
Community-based participant-observation purposefully combines participant-observation and community-based participatory research. While participant-observation is the core method of ethnography and foundational to cultural anthropology, community-based participatory research initially emerged from health and related applied sciences to align…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Participatory Research, Ethnography, Communities of Practice
Jensen, Lasse X.; Bearman, Margaret; Boud, David; Konradsen, Flemming – Higher Education: The International Journal of Higher Education Research, 2022
To understand how the digitalization of higher education influences the inter-relationship between students, teachers, and their broader contexts, research must account for the social, cultural, political, and embodied aspects of teaching and learning in digital environments. "Digital ethnography" is a research method that can generate…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Ethnography, Higher Education, Research Methodology
Gurpinder Singh Lalli – Sage Research Methods Cases, 2017
This case study is aimed at postgraduate and early career researchers who wish to embark on using ethnographic techniques in educational research. The topic in question is school food and its impact upon learning. In this case, it is the social aspect which is being addressed. This research did not aim to address the nutritious element but the way…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Dining Facilities, Students, Observation
Willis, Roxana – Research Ethics, 2019
Informed consent may be unobtainable in online contexts. This article examines the difficulties of obtaining informed consent online through a Facebook case study. It is proposed that there are at least two ways informed consent could be waived in research: first, if the data are public, and second, if the data are textual. Accordingly, the…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Social Science Research, Social Media, Informed Consent
Heath, Sue; Chapman, Lynne – International Journal of Social Research Methodology, 2018
This paper explores the potential of observational sketching as a social science research tool, informed by our own recent experiments with observational sketching techniques and approaches. We first outline the historical roots of academic sketching and note a recent resurgence of interest in sketching in certain disciplines. We then introduce…
Descriptors: Social Science Research, Research Methodology, Observation, Freehand Drawing
Lori Goodson; F. Todd Goodson; David S. Allen – Advocate, 2016
This article chronicles the development of a video-based ethnography project documenting daily life in a Kansas elementary and a secondary classroom. The project, which took nearly two years of planning, allows a direct link to two classrooms approximately 250 miles away to provide a virtual field experience for undergraduates and a wide array of…
Descriptors: Video Technology, Ethnography, Elementary School Teachers, Secondary School Teachers
Kester, Kevin – Globalisation, Societies and Education, 2017
This paper examines the role of United Nations (UN) peace academics in teaching for peace within the UN higher education system, and questions what contribution, if any, UN peacebuilding education makes to the broader field of peace and conflict studies education, and in the lives of the people it touches. The study draws on ethnographic data…
Descriptors: International Organizations, Peace, Higher Education, Conflict
Sajan, K. S.; Sindhu, M. – Online Submission, 2014
Ethnographic research is an emerging research technique in the field of education. Ethnographic research was a procedure usually used in anthropology but now it is getting popular in educational field. This kind of research relies on qualitative data, its perspective is holistic and its procedures of data analysis involve contextualization. Data…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ethnography, Qualitative Research, Observation
Valleala, Ulla Maija; Herranen, Sanna; Collin, Kaija; Paloniemi, Susanna – Vocations and Learning, 2015
Health care organizations are facing rapid changes, frequently involving modification of existing procedures. The case study reported here examined change processes and learning in a health care organization. The organizational change in question occurred in the emergency clinic of a Finnish central hospital where a new action model for…
Descriptors: Organizational Change, Educational Opportunities, Workplace Learning, Case Studies
Whiteside, Bethany; Kelly, John – Research in Dance Education, 2016
This article analyses the social interactions and behaviours evident within an adult, amateur ballet class in one of Scotland's cities. Using an ethnographic empirical approach, the study utilises Erving Goffman's model of dramaturgy to explore the impression management of participants from the ballet class. Evidence (data) was generated through a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Dance Education, Dance, Adults
Hunt, Carolyn S.; Crumpler, Thomas P.; Handsfield, Lara J. – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2016
We consider how research participants engage alongside researchers as choreographers of data generation and highlight the everyday practices of researchers and participants "in motion" within and across time and space. Data for this case analysis were generated during a two-year qualitative study investigating multimodal literacies,…
Descriptors: Writing Workshops, Bilingual Education, Qualitative Research, Ethnography
Gordon, Ian – Industry and Higher Education, 2016
This article explores a university knowledge exchange programme for small and medium-sized enterprise (SME) owner-managers. Specifically, it considers why a programme designed to achieve growth in a group of SMEs through the creation of a network high in social capital may have become a constraint on the programme's effectiveness over a period of…
Descriptors: Universities, Small Businesses, School Business Relationship, Partnerships in Education
Lareau, Annette – Journal of Marriage and Family, 2012
Ralph LaRossa's (2012) thoughtful piece suggested that qualitative researchers' self-awareness (and clear articulation) of their conceptual and empirical goals can help their manuscripts in many ways, including during the review process. If authors self-consciously embrace particular orientations, then it will be easier for reviewers to evaluate…
Descriptors: Social Environment, Qualitative Research, Participant Observation, Researchers
Rege, Sumita – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The growing ubiquity of the Internet has changed the way we conduct many of our meaningful activities, occupations, today. Despite the changes in technology, human needs haven't changed as radically, we still need connection, involvement, information and avenues of expression, but what has changed are the myriad ways in which we do those things.…
Descriptors: Electronic Journals, Web Sites, Internet, Occupational Information