Monday, August 24, 2009

Discussion Card for Creswell's Ch. 15

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  1. Mrs. DalrympleOctober 24, 2009 at 10:35 AM

    Quote: (page 493) "An ethnography is a useful design for studying groups in education, their behaviors, beliefs, and language, and how they develop shared patterns of interacting over time."
    Question: Is it best for ethnographers to collect a variety of forms of data or is it okay to stick with a few?
    Fact: Educational ethnography is rooted in cultural anthropology.

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  2. UnknownOctober 25, 2009 at 12:08 PM

    Quote: p473 "To understand the patterns of a culture-sharing goup, the ethnographer typically spends considerable time, "in the filed" interviewing, observing, and gathering documents about the group to understand their culture-sharing behaviors, beliefs, and language."

    Question: How does the researcher fully describe and account for the setting or context for an ethnographic study? This seems like an integral part of the study.

    Interesting Fact: Ethnographers gather 3 types of data: emic data (first person from the participant), etic data (researchers interpretation of the partipants responses), and negotiation data (agreed upon by participant and researcher).

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  3. UnknownOctober 25, 2009 at 1:31 PM

    Quote: The ethnographer typcially spends considerable time "in the field" interviewing, observing, and gathering documents about the group to understand their culture-sharing behaviors, beliefs, and language. Page 473

    Interesting Fact: There are three forms of ethnography. They are realist ethnography, case study, and critical ethnography. Page 475

    Question: I know that when collecting data, ethnographers use observation and interviews. What are other ways ethnographers collect data?

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  4. UnknownOctober 25, 2009 at 4:05 PM

    Question: When conducting critical ethnography, the researcher becomes immersed in the research as she seeks to address an inequity in society.(Page 486). This intrigues me, but does the researcher's intense involvement in critical ethnography allow the researcher to maintain her role as facilitator? Is it possible to become too involved? Talk about "messy"!

    Quote: (Page 479) "This non-neutral position for the critical researcher also means that he or she will be an advocate for change to help transform our society so that people are less oppressed and marginalized."

    Fact: In critical ethnography, collaboration between researcher and participants is extensive. Participants may even collaborate with the researcher in writing the final report as the results become a vehicle for social change.(Page 478-479) That's powerful!

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  5. Corey NickellOctober 25, 2009 at 4:14 PM

    Corey Nickell

    Question: (Page 478) I can see how Critical Ethnographies could have been greatly used during the Civil Rights and Women Rights movement. This type of research takes a person with a huge amount of time and passion on a subject…do you think this type of research project is chosen often?

    Quote: (Pg 482) “Ethnographers collect data through spending time at participants’ sites where they live, work, or play.”

    Interesting fact: I like how the chart on page 487 shows how ethnography begins with a wide focus and then narrows in.

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  6. Dr. HendrixOctober 27, 2009 at 12:45 PM

    Good points so far!
    A lot of qualitative research deals with issues of social justice!

    Keep up the good work,
    Dr. Hendrix

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  7. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 7:45 PM

    Question: Page: 473 - How would I conduct a study using the Ethnographic Design approach within a public school setting? Would it be the study of those on free and reduced lunches and their performance on say MAP testing?

    Quote: Page 473- "You capture the "rules" of behavior, such as informal relationships among teachers who congregate in favorite places to socialize."

    Interesting Fact: Page 481 - In study of a group, ethnographers identify a single site, locate a group within it, gather data a bout the group. This distinguishes ethnography from other qualitative research that focuses on individuals and not the group.

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  8. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 7:48 PM

    Corey -

    I agree with your interesting fact! The chart does help you get an idea of how to conduct the ethnography design. Because in just reading about it it seems a bit overwhelming in the sense that it is not number driven. The chart helps to specifically identify for me how to conduct this design.

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  9. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 7:52 PM

    Corey - In response to your quote:
    So, as a 6th grade teacher, it would make sense to conduct qualitative research and to follow the ethnography design. Since I work at the school, technically don't live there (however might as well). I play at recess there with the 6th grade students. All fun cracks aside, I am thinking that I spend enough quality time at the site and interact in great length with the students. So, shall I utilize the ethnography design?

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  10. AnonymousOctober 27, 2009 at 7:54 PM

    Christina - Great question. Because to me it is hard to pull the numbers, hard justifying facts from simply conducting observations and interviews. How do we supply those who read our study with the facts? Numbers?

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  11. LaDawndraNovember 1, 2009 at 6:47 AM

    Quote:
    "The major components of a critical ethnography ...such as a value-laden orientation, EMPOWERING PEOPLE by giving them more authority , challenging the staus quo, and a concern about power and control..."
    "Critical ethnographers challenge the status quo and ask why it is so."

    Question:
    I wonder what journals publish the study from this kind of reserach? How are the case studies published?

    Interesting Fact:
    This research design is focused on writing about groups of people. This qualitative research describes and analyzes cultural aspects.

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  12. Ann GustafsonNovember 13, 2009 at 2:47 PM

    Question: Since ethnographers write about themselves, their experiences and identify their standpoint or point of view in their reports, isn't this a type of "persuasive writing?"

    Quote: "When Denzin (1997) spoke of the twin crises of representation and legitimation, he was responding to profound changes in our society, such as becoming more multinational, joining a world economy, and changing demographics to include more racial groups."

    Fact: There are probably as many procedures for conducting an ethnography as there are ethnographers.

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  13. UnknownNovember 28, 2009 at 12:17 PM

    Fact: pg 478. It seems as if many, many politicians/presidential speech writers have been critical ethnographers. I wonder if this is how NCLB was passed?

    Quotation: pg 483 "A description in ethnography is a detailed rendering of individuals and scenes to depict waht is going on....this involves awakening the reader's senses." Again this seems biased writing in my opinion.

    Question; Is being biased with ethnographic research expected or allowed?

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