Ethnographic Writing

Jeffrey, Bob

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“…To be an ethnographer, Jeffrey (2018) claims "is a qualitative life full of qualitative experiences, judgements, expressions, wonder, delight, being captured by the joy of writing and an abiding desire to re-present their sites and situations as authentically as possible; to give the reader a detailed, informative and long lasting understanding of people's lives" (p. 133).…”

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“…However, fieldwork never gets better than the field notes, and the field notes never get better than how they are written and analyzed (Delamont, 2008). Ethnography is a collection of ideas, fieldwork, memos and the analyzing of the data into categories and subcategories, which all taken together represent the complexity of the study research focus (Jeffrey, 2018). Jeffrey distinguishes five different kinds of writing in ethnographic research: a) descriptive field notes, b) reflective field notes, c) reflexive field notes (such as one's personal relationship to the people and the site), d) memos (such as trying out particular perspectives, theoretical insights and/or analytical categories), and e) writing the main text.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…When typed up, the field notes were approximately 120 000 words in length. Jeffrey (2018) emphasizes that ethnographers want to represent their research from different perspectives, which adds to the understanding of the relations and nature of the site. My field notes during the first weeks contained numerous descriptions of the pupils' natural flow of interaction with peers.…”

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“…I did not create memos during the data collecting phase, which Jeffrey (2018) advocates. Instead, after I had left the field, I tried out different perspectives in analyzing and different representations of the people within the site.…”

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“…Memoing or memo-writing is a central part of the writing of ethnography (Jeffrey, 2018;Wieland, 2018), prompting the researcher to analyze her/his data and code the data early in the process. In memoing, the researcher writes down analytic notes and reflections early in the memoing process and can later on fill out categories and make comparisons between data and codes in more advanced memos.…”

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Backstage pedagogy: Compulsory school pupils’ informal social strategies when dealing with formal individual writing assignments for assessment

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Over the last decades, formal schooling has changed towards an enhanced focus on the individual pupil’s achievements. This comprises formative assessment such as visualizing pupils’ learning processes, as well as summative assessment in terms of increased number and importance of National tests. However, little is known, from a pupils’ perspective,about how pupils together with classmates relate to the extensive focus on assessment of the individual’s achievements in formal education; what do today’s pupils, who have grown up with digital technology and social media, say and do out of the teachers’supervision when dealing with individual assignments? In line with ethnographic educational research, this thesis explores and analyses how educational structures are imposed upon subordinate groups. This thesis gives an account of, from a pupils’perspective, the pupils’ backstage pedagogy regarding formal schoolwork inside and outside school.The applied analytical tool is Goffman’s (1990) theater metaphor of social life; in this study, pupils’ interactions with peers out of the teachers’ supervision when doing schoolwork are regarded as carried out backstage, preparing an intended impression of their abilities and know-how to present to the assessing teacher. Based on observations, an innovative and discreet staging of audio-visual recordings, and semi-structured interviews with the pupils in one class at a Swedish municipal lower secondary school where approximately 50 % of the pupils had a foreign background, the results show that pupils applied a backstage pedagogy. Outside the teachers’ supervision and awareness, they informally interacted with classmates and used social strategies when dealing with formal individual assignments. The pupils’ regard for grades was the linchpin of their activities;some pupils a) swapped computers with peers and wrote original texts for classmates, b)copied peers’ assignments, c) logged into classmates’ Google classroom accounts and wrote original texts for peers, and d) shared leaked National tests on the class’s Snapchat group. These actions led to dilemmas in the teachers’ assessing and grading of individual pupils as well as in implementing fair, impartial grading. In looking forward, the thesis discusses the phenomenon and impact of backstage spaces comprising parents, siblings,Artificial Intelligence and ChatGPT to improve grades.

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Section: Goffman's Theater Metaphor As An Analytical Tool and The Pro...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Goffman's Theater Metaphor As An Analytical Tool and The Pro...mentioning

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Ethnographic Writing

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Backstage pedagogy: Compulsory school pupils’ informal social strategies when dealing with formal individual writing assignments for assessment

Backstage pedagogy: Compulsory school pupils’ informal social strategies when dealing with formal individual writing assignments for assessment

Teaching Expertise in Higher Education: Constructive Alignment and How an Experienced University Teacher Maintained Constructive Alignment in Practice

Learning, instruction and assessment in the workplace: applying and augmenting Communities of Practice theory

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