ITSF+5199+Ethnographic+Methods+in+Educational+Research

Next Offered
Spring 2014

Professor
Lesley Bartlett

Syllabus
 Note: Syllabus is subject to change at the professor's discretion.

Course description
This course provides training in ethnographic methods in educational research, including an overview of ethics, conceptual frameworks, research design, research questions, selecting sites and participants, interviewing, and observation. A second section looks specifically at multimodal research techniques, including hands-on practice. Finally, the course examines the dilemmas that ethnographers have encountered in recent decades, such as challenges to the concept of culture, the revolution produced by postmodern critiques, the advent of multi-sited research, the shift toward multimodal research methods, the devaluation of qualitative work in the call for “scientifically based research,” the desire to link research to social change, and the need to conduct policy-relevant work. We consider these dilemmas and new directions for ethnographic research while designing a research proposal.

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