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Alice Stefanelli – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2024
As the popularity of ethnographic research methods grows across and beyond the social sciences, it is of paramount importance that practitioners reflect on how to best teach participant observation to increasingly diverse and interdisciplinary audiences. While available literature stresses the importance of learning-by-doing to develop students'…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Participant Observation, Theory Practice Relationship, Research Design
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Christensen, Torben Spanget – Journal of Social Science Education, 2022
Purpose: The purpose of the article is to contribute to a discussion about quality for social science teaching and in continuation hereof to develop a tool for social science classroom observation and interpretation, for both direct and video-based observation. Design/methodology/approach: Classroom teaching is communication. Therefore, it is…
Descriptors: Social Sciences, Teaching Methods, Instructional Effectiveness, Educational Quality
David F. Lancy – Oxford University Press, 2024
In "Learning Without Lessons," David F. Lancy fills a rather large gap in the field of child development and education. Drawing on focused, empirical studies in cultural psychology, ethnographic accounts of childhood, and insights from archaeological studies, Lancy offers the first attempt to review the principles and practices for…
Descriptors: Child Development, Cultural Context, Independent Study, Play
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Beuving, Joost; de Vries, Geert – Learning and Teaching: The International Journal of Higher Education in the Social Sciences, 2020
This article discusses how the teaching of qualitative research in higher education is threatened by the effects of new public management, by academic culture wars and by a growing belief in big data. The controversy over Alice Goffman's book "On the Run" presents one recent example of this. In an effort to counterbalance these…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Qualitative Research, Higher Education, Social Science Research
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Schuelka, Matthew – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2018
The Himalayan country of Bhutan has witnessed monumental social and cultural changes in only the last fifty years with the implementation and institutionalization of mass secular schooling. This "modern" schooling has also served to newly sort, produce, and construct "disabled" persons. Through a year of ethnographic fieldwork,…
Descriptors: Disabilities, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries, Social Change
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Jehle, May – Journal of Social Science Education, 2021
Purpose: The paper discusses the camerawork within a historic video case study as a meaningful practice of visualization of classrooms and also as an aspect worth consideration in current contexts of video-based classroom research and teacher education. Design/methodology/approach: The case study combines elements of video hermeneutics and a…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Teaching Methods, Social Sciences, Video Technology
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Errázuriz, Valentina – Theory and Research in Social Education, 2021
This article explores the processes by which Chilean female feminist public high school students used political and historical narratives and symbols during the feminist movement of 2018. It analyzes how these particular usages were crossed by affective intensities that worked to produce students' political subjectivities as collective and…
Descriptors: Females, Single Sex Schools, Personal Narratives, Feminism
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Nuo Xu – Bilingual Research Journal, 2024
In response to the call for centering critical consciousness as a foundational goal in dual language bilingual education (DLBE), this article explores secondary Chinese teachers' instructional practices in Utah Mandarin Chinese DLBE programs and how their instructional practices reflect the missed opportunities and implementational spaces for…
Descriptors: Mandarin Chinese, Bilingual Education Programs, Critical Theory, Teaching Methods
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Sai, Youcef – British Journal of Religious Education, 2018
This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork that took place in 2014 in two primary Muslim schools based in Dublin in the Republic of Ireland. Based on observations and semistructured interviews, three teachers were observed and interviewed on how the Qur'an was taught to fourth and fifth class pupils. The research findings explore the following:…
Descriptors: Religious Education, Islam, Teaching Methods, Ethnography
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Castro-Varela, Aurelio – Ethnography and Education, 2018
This paper discusses the main aspects of an ethnographic approach to the Occupy Poble Sec Cinema Forum in Barcelona, Spain, and the difficulties of using participant observation, in which vision is still dominant, in this setting. The methodological challenge stemmed from the 'native' position of the researcher--a member of the Forum's organising…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Films, Teaching Methods, Participant Observation
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Gunawardena, Maya – International Journal of Education and Literacy Studies, 2017
First year students often experience a culture shock as certain literacy practices at the university level are different from their experiences in high schools. Some major challenges that students encounter include students' ability to maintain academic integrity practices in their studies, to comprehend complex academic texts to outline key…
Descriptors: Teaching Models, Literacy, Ethnography, Higher Education
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Kline, Michelle Ann – Field Methods, 2017
Teaching has attracted growing research attention in studies of human and animal behavior as a crucial behavior that coevolved with human cultural capacities. However, the synthesis of data on teaching across species and across human populations has proven elusive because researchers use a variety of definitions and methods to approach the topic.…
Descriptors: Teacher Evaluation, Evaluation Methods, Teacher Behavior, Foreign Countries
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Kurki, Tuuli; Masoud, Ameera; Niemi, Anna-Maija; Brunila, Kristiina – European Educational Research Journal, 2018
Today, education is massively affected by marketisation and the drastic demands of the global economy. Integration training for immigrants has fallen prey to that; immigrants are employed to serve market needs, which has been attributed to the creation of "integration as business." In the article, the authors examine how integration…
Descriptors: Marketing, Refugees, Social Integration, Ethnography
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Woloshyn, Vera Ella; Bajovic, Mira; Worden, Melissa Maney – Computers in the Schools, 2017
In this qualitative case study, we provide a series of vignettes illustrating a Grade 1 teacher's experiences integrating iPad technology into her instruction over a school year. We use the digital didactic model to deconstruct these vignettes and draw upon the teacher's reflections to gain further insights about her instructional experiences…
Descriptors: Qualitative Research, Case Studies, Vignettes, Grade 1
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Blaise, Mindy; Hamm, Catherine; Iorio, Jeanne Marie – Pedagogy, Culture and Society, 2017
This article considers the role of early childhood education within these uncertain times of human induced climate change. It draws from feminism and environmental humanities to experiment with different ways of becoming-with the world. By bringing together Donna Haraway's figure of the Modest Witness and Deborah Bird Rose's notion of witnessing,…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Ethics, Ethnography, Observation
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