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Direct linkStraubhaar, Rolf – Ethnography and Education, 2014
Using fieldnotes from the non-formal adult education classes run by a non-profit international education with ground operations in rural Mozambique, this article documents how the comments made by class facilitators and class participants in those classes reflect inherent power inequalities between non-profit staff and local participants. These…
Descriptors: Informal Education, Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Power Structure
Brockmann, Michaela – Ethnography and Education, 2011
This article reports on a study of apprentices in England and Germany designed to explore young people's learner identities over time and in relation to particular learning environments. The research adopts a multi-method ethnographic approach, combining biographical interviews with multi-site participant observation. The article problematises the…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Research Design, Interviews, Ethnography
Barbour, Andrew – Ethnography and Education, 2010
This paper focuses on the ethical position of the ethnographer when encountering unethical activities. Ethnography affords a rich insight into cultures, often behind previously secure doors but it is also a demanding science. Our gatekeepers control our access and our relationships with them can determine our destiny. This paper offers an exchange…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Ethics, Student Attitudes, Classroom Environment
Burgess, Amy – Ethnography and Education, 2010
This paper uncovers the dynamics of the twin processes of the construction of identity and the contextualisation of learning in adult literacy education by documenting the spatial practices of students and tutors. The paper mobilises the concepts of localising and globalising activities to make two interrelated arguments. Firstly, analysis of…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Adult Students, Adult Literacy, Scientific Concepts
Galvan, Ruth Trinidad – Ethnography and Education, 2010
The changing social, cultural and economic conditions of transmigrant communities in rural Mexico require that women who stay behind, while their loved ones travel back and forth to the USA, create social relations that ensure their survival. From over five years of ethnographic research, this article explores the healing potential of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mexicans, Rural Areas, Females
Beach, Dennis – Ethnography and Education, 2006
Education restructuring is often based on the claim that markets have been shown to efficiently distribute goods to individuals who need and desire them, and that services should therefore be altered so that "the market" can also become the ultimate arbiter of what is included in them as well. However, restructuring has also been said to have…
Descriptors: Creativity, Ethnography, Foreign Countries, Humanism
