Thinking through fieldwork

Okely, Judith

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“…Our initial analysis of the data did conform to the approach to qualitative data analysis as described by Glaser and Strauss (1967): main themes were identified on the basis of an analysis of the transcripts -and a close reading of Durkheim's treatise on moral educationmade from the semi-structured interviews with staff. These themes are used below to structure our reporting of these data as well as to highlight the findings (Okley, 1994). As a way of incorporating these results into a more generalisable sociological context an attempt is made to utilise the social theory of Durkheim and others.…”

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Building Moral Persons: A Durkheimian Perspective on Nursery Staff's Pedagogic Discourse

Holligan¹

1999

Early Child Development and Care

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Concern about the nature of the socialization of children in our post-modernist society as well as related anxieties about social exclusion generally and its implications for social order have played a part in the British government's policy focus upon nursery education for all. Throughout the education system the national curricula innovations have explicitly highlighted values and citizenship as important to maintaining an inclusive society.The current paper is based on an ethnographic research design and addresses the ways in which nursery teaching staff provide children with a multiplicity of values. An attempt is made to contextualise their efforts sociologically through the social and moral theory of Emile Durkheim. In seeking to describe and explain the socialization process involved, in terms of the child-centred nature of their values, the qualitative analysis of the interview data is suggestive of interesting differences between nurseries serving a range of socioeconomic communities in a Scottish town.

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Building Moral Persons: A Durkheimian Perspective on Nursery Staff's Pedagogic Discourse

Holligan¹

1999

Early Child Development and Care

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“…Rather, the analysis was seen as creative, an embodied, often unconscious process, a method generally practised in the humanities and ethnography (Okley, 1994). A degree of validity for the reader is established by extensive quotation, permitting her or him to also evaluate some of the texts being analysed.…”

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The power and vulnerability of the “new professional”: web management in UK universities

Cox

2007

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“…It is acknowledged because there is no neatly definable method of analysis the study lacks the immediate reliability of more transparent methods. It nevertheless represents a valid approach long used in social science (eg [41]). The rich qualitative data from the interviews helped build up a picture of the emerging practice of web management in universities and explore the pattern of cross organizational ties from an ego centred perspective, even if it is acknowledged that other interpretations could be made of the data.…”

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An exploration of concepts of community through a case study of UK university web production

Cox

2008

Journal of Information Science

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The paper explores the inter-relation and differences between the concepts of occupational community, community of practice, online community and social network. It uses as a case study illustration the domain of UK university web site production and specifically a listserv for those involved in it. Different latent occupational communities are explored, and the potential for the listserv to help realize these as an active sense of community is considered. The listserv is not (for most participants) a tight knit community of practice, indeed it fails many criteria for an online community. It is perhaps best conceived as a loose knit network of practice, valued for information, implicit support and for the maintenance of weak ties. Through the analysis the case for using strict definitions of the theoretical concepts is made.

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Thinking through fieldwork

Cited by 45 publications

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Building Moral Persons: A Durkheimian Perspective on Nursery Staff's Pedagogic Discourse

Building Moral Persons: A Durkheimian Perspective on Nursery Staff's Pedagogic Discourse

The power and vulnerability of the “new professional”: web management in UK universities

An exploration of concepts of community through a case study of UK university web production

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