Ethnographic Practice
Casual Unstructured
Although
observation constitutes the heart of pure ethnography, most of the Educational research work has been based primarily on interviews.
Educational research work has been based primarily on interviews.
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This is often the only way to discover what the visions of the different people and to collect information about certain events or problems,
but it is also a means of making things happen and stimulating the flow of
data
However, interviews should be used in conjunction with other methods.
Before any consideration of form and technique one must consider the person and the
disposition of the ethnographer
The place where the interview is conducted, how it is graduated
the relationships that occur
between the people involved and all the form it takes Prefer
call them conversations or discussions, which better indicates a free, open process
In the first place, we could observe that interview is not exactly a term
fortunate
for it involves a formality that the ethnographer tries to avoid. could observe that interview is not exactly a term
fortunate,
Prefer
call them conversations or discussions, which better indicates a free
The higher the
incidence of the voluntary element and the lower the management
In other words, the greater the tolerance and permissiveness in participation
Institutional Dimensions
As has been observed so far, all this has its source of naturalness Consequently, the credit given to conversations that
take place within the normal course of events
in
collecting things as they are, not as they are forced to be. observed so far, all this has its source of naturalness, in
collecting things as
Institutional Dimensions This is more
The more extensive the required
Income is a common problem in ethnography and, consequently the literature
respective study presents voluminous and valuable
recommendations to researchers
They try to get into an institution, about how to dress, how to behave,
Deep down, he's trying to sell himself as a credible person. that carries out a project of value.
We have already seen that the ethnographic approach implies penetrating group cultures and the perspectives and realities of others.
Rudimentary Empirical
In some moments when the mass of data incorporated into the field notes,
transcripts
documents, must be ordered with a certain systematicity, On an elementary level, this
it simply applies to your own data.
At this stage there may not be
formation of concepts, import or discoveries of theory, creation of new
thoughts.
The goal is to give the material a shape that is conducive to these ends,
and
this means ordering the data in a consistent, complete, logical, and succinct way.
The first step is to identify the most important categories, which, in turn, they can be divided into groups.
The data can be classified according to these
categories the nature of which will depend on the type of study and the interests at stake