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What I understood I need to do for thinking/acting(?)

ethnographically

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Learn from the people (insiders) what counts as cultural

knowledge (insider meaning)

Ethnographers construct systems to learn what members

of particular groups need to know, understand, produce

and predict as they participate in events of everyday life

within a group.

Members

of groups

and

communiti

es do not

hold roles

or points of

views

evenly.

How the

ethnographe

rs can honor

these

differences?

Creating data from the

perspective of the different types

or members of the community

In education, the key questions:

What is happening here?

What is being accomplished, by and with whom,

how, in what ways, when and where, under what

conditions, for what purposes, drawing on what

historical or current knowledge and resources

(e.g. artifacts, meanings, tools), with what

outcomes or consequences for individuals and

the group?

To what do individual members of sustaining

groups have access, orient and hold each other

How the

analyst

bounds the

events to

learn from?

This is a developing process in

which the ethnographer is slowly

grasping meaning from the

community while acknowledging

what could be an interesting focus

of analysis, bearing in mind that

the goal is to learn from the

people (insiders) what counts as

cultural knowledge (insider

meaning).

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accountable?

What makes someone an insider or outsider of

particular groups (e.g. class, group within a

class, peer group or social network)?

What counts as disciplinary knowledge (i.e.

mathematics, science, social science or art) in

this particular group or classroom?

What roles and relationships, norms and

expectations, and rights and obligations are

constructed by and afforded members?

How does previously constructed cultural

knowledge support or constrain participation

in, or create frame clashes with, local knowledge

being constructed in a particular event (or social

group)?

How do decisions beyond the group support

and/or constrain ways of knowing, being and

doing afforded members?

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Ethnographers can redefine

their questions depending

on what they are learning

during the fieldwork

Should I define

explicitly a theory

of culture before

starting my

ethnographic

study?

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What

counts as

event? And

how many

“events”

could count

as

ethnograph

y?

Types of questions that I should bear in mind while I am

learning from a community:

- What is ordinary and predictable?

- What is not ordinary and problematic?

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Ethnography in education is a

field allowing me to doubt

upon common senses

regarding learning,

knowledge, success, and

effectiveness in formal

educational settings. This

means, I could problematize

education. The question I

should be always bear in

mind is WHAT COUNTS

AS…?