Doing Fieldwork at Home

The Ethnography of Education in Familiar Contexts

Loukia K. Sarroub, Claire Nicholas

• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Year: 2021
• eBook ISBN: 9781475857467
• Edition: 1
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Education Curricula
• Index: Social Sciences

This book engages readers via the international contributions from "home" field sites around the world and international authors. Importantly, the various chapters address a wide spectrum of educational contexts – ranging from higher education, to K-12 public and private schools, to prison schools. The realistic accounts portrayed in each of the chapters address how local collaborations are instantiated through the research process, from access and data collection to the write-up phases. The major themes that emerge across the chapters highlight 1) positionality and negotiation of multiple roles, i.e., researcher, educator, colleague, friend, community member; 2) reconciling multiple, hybrid, and intersectional identities with varying insider/outsider statuses vis-à-vis research participants; 3) resulting power dynamics in connection to relational identities – sometimes conflicting, consolidating, equalizing, and/or elevating; 4) innovative methodological responses to these dilemmas; and 5) integrated research designs and research ethics, offering possibilities for participation and insights on the social impact of research findings. The book's chapters thus individually and collectively treat and resolve local ways of doing home (field) work and highlight the creation and sharing of knowledge among researchers and research participants.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: In the Field at Home
• 1 Fieldworking at Home: Exploring the Experiences and Strategies of Student Nurses and Veterinary Students
• 2 Identity, Positionality, and Discovery: Researching Race in Local Context
• 3 Can Basque be Protected in Multiethnic Environments?: Methodological Dilemmas in Basque School Ethnography
• 4 Navigating Insiderness in a Study of Newcomers’ Construction of Citizen Identities
• 5 “You Pulled the Chair from Right Under Me!”: How a Black Young Man Disappears from a High School Reading Class
• 6 Gaining Access to Students’ Informal Conversations with Peers: An Explorative Approach on Educational Research and Staging of Recording Devices
• 7 Home and Away: Crafting an Engaged Ethnography of Textile and Entrepreneurship Training
• 8 Collaborative Intersectionality in Researcher-Participant Relations at a Hispanic Serving Institution
• 9 Being a Researcher-Teacher in an Action-Oriented School Research Project on Welding: Perspectives, Positions, and Ethical Dilemmas
• 10 Teachers as Ethnographers in Schools: Research Dynamics at a Waldorf School in the Philippines
• 11 The Familiar and the Foreign: The Schooling of System-Involved Youth
• Onward
• Bibliography
• Index
• Author Biographies