Ethnography is a Social science research method. It is the primary data collection method. It is mainly combined with social background. A qualitative approach that studies the cultural patterns and perspectives of participants in their natural setting.
Ethnography came from Greek, it identifies its roots in sociology and anthropology.
*Ethnos = People
*Graphing = Writing
“Ethnography literally means ‘a portrait of a people’. Ethnography is a written description of a particular culture, the custom, belief and behaviour based on information collected through field work.” (Harris and Johnson 2000).
Ethnographic research is one of the many crucial research methodologies in educational research. This well-researched ppt gives a clear picture of the what, how, and why of the research design.
Ethnography is a Social science research method. It is the primary data collection method. It is mainly combined with social background. A qualitative approach that studies the cultural patterns and perspectives of participants in their natural setting.
Ethnography came from Greek, it identifies its roots in sociology and anthropology.
*Ethnos = People
*Graphing = Writing
“Ethnography literally means ‘a portrait of a people’. Ethnography is a written description of a particular culture, the custom, belief and behaviour based on information collected through field work.” (Harris and Johnson 2000).
Ethnographic research is one of the many crucial research methodologies in educational research. This well-researched ppt gives a clear picture of the what, how, and why of the research design.
This is the lecture Dr Igor Calzada delivered on Ethnography in order to tackle the issues regarding data analysis in qualitative research in addition to the writing process of ethnographic method. That was delivered as a mean to achieve social innovation projects.
Description of what is ethnography and how it can be used to study a particular group. How to use ethnography in the development of a specific group/community tourism interest
The one of the major approaches of the Qualitative Research is Ethnography, sometimes known as Cultural Anthropology or sometimes called as Naturalistic Enquiry. Its disciplinary origin is Anthropology. Ethnography deals with the discovery and description of culture of a group or group of individual. As the concept of culture is the central theme of Ethnography Research; that’s why the question raised from this point of view is that what the Cultural characteristics of a group of individuals are? Here Culture means the system of norms and standards that a society develops over the courses of many generations. Ethnography research helps to search very complicated or complex deign challenges. A tremendous and effective researcher is needed when he or she is viewing or observing or interacting with target population in their real-life situation. Ethnography Research is a one of the most important qualitative research where researcher observe or interact with the target population and researcher plays an important role to obtain useful cultural information that’s why Ethnography research is known as cultural ethnography or cultural anthropology. This kind of research is a part of social science research. We know there are several forms of Ethnography research. As for example, confessional Ethnography research, life history Ethnography research, feminist Ethnography research, realist Ethnography research, critical Ethnography research etc. Out of the several form of Ethnography research, the two most common and popular form of Ethnography research are “Realist Ethnography Research” and “Critical Ethnography Research”. The “Realist EthnographyResearch” is sometimes known as traditional Ethnography research whereas the critical Ethnography research is concerned with those group or group of individuals who are marginalized in society. The toughest activity of Ethnography research is the researcher should play as a member of the target population and spent several months even if several years with target population or group. Therefore, Ethnography researches not only a qualitative research but also it is a longitudinal research.
This is the lecture Dr Igor Calzada delivered on Ethnography in order to tackle the issues regarding data analysis in qualitative research in addition to the writing process of ethnographic method. That was delivered as a mean to achieve social innovation projects.
Description of what is ethnography and how it can be used to study a particular group. How to use ethnography in the development of a specific group/community tourism interest
The one of the major approaches of the Qualitative Research is Ethnography, sometimes known as Cultural Anthropology or sometimes called as Naturalistic Enquiry. Its disciplinary origin is Anthropology. Ethnography deals with the discovery and description of culture of a group or group of individual. As the concept of culture is the central theme of Ethnography Research; that’s why the question raised from this point of view is that what the Cultural characteristics of a group of individuals are? Here Culture means the system of norms and standards that a society develops over the courses of many generations. Ethnography research helps to search very complicated or complex deign challenges. A tremendous and effective researcher is needed when he or she is viewing or observing or interacting with target population in their real-life situation. Ethnography Research is a one of the most important qualitative research where researcher observe or interact with the target population and researcher plays an important role to obtain useful cultural information that’s why Ethnography research is known as cultural ethnography or cultural anthropology. This kind of research is a part of social science research. We know there are several forms of Ethnography research. As for example, confessional Ethnography research, life history Ethnography research, feminist Ethnography research, realist Ethnography research, critical Ethnography research etc. Out of the several form of Ethnography research, the two most common and popular form of Ethnography research are “Realist Ethnography Research” and “Critical Ethnography Research”. The “Realist EthnographyResearch” is sometimes known as traditional Ethnography research whereas the critical Ethnography research is concerned with those group or group of individuals who are marginalized in society. The toughest activity of Ethnography research is the researcher should play as a member of the target population and spent several months even if several years with target population or group. Therefore, Ethnography researches not only a qualitative research but also it is a longitudinal research.
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3. ETHNOGRAPHY
• The most complex of all research
• To obtain as holistic a picture as possible
• A holistic perspective of:
A particular group of society
Institution
Setting
Situation
Sort of description that can only emerge from
spending a lengthy amount of time intimately
studying and living in a particular social setting
(Van Maanen, 1982, p. 103-104)
4. • Conducted in a natural context.
• Emphasis on documenting everyday experiences
of individuals by observing and interviewing
• Involves intimate face-to-face interactions with
participants.
• Reflects participants’ perspectives and behavior.
• Data is collected primarily through fieldwork
experiences.
• Uses multiple data sourced including both
quantitative and qualitative.
• Key tools : in depth interviewing & continual
observation
5. • Investigates a small number of cases in detail.
• Uses data analysis that involve the explicit
interpretation of the meanings and functions of
human actions
• Interpretations of people’s actions and behaviour
that are uncovered through the investigation of what
they actually do and the reason for doing it.
• Offers a representation or interpretation of people’s
lives and behaviour.
• Built on the points of understanding that occur
between the researcher and participants.
• Thick description
• Non-judgmental orientation (researcher refrain from
making value judgement)
6. REQUIREMENT
• the language of that culture
• first-hand participation & interpretation
• intensive work with a few informants from
that setting
7. CULTURE
• the beliefs, values, and attitudes that structure the
behavior patterns of a specific group of people
• at a minimum, similarity must be shared by a
significant number of members of a social group;
shared in the sense of being behaviorally enacted,
physically possessed, or internally thought
• Subculture: group having social, economic, ethnic, or
other traits distinctive enough to distinguish it from
others within the same culture or society
8. ETHNOGRAPHY
- Tribes
- Subcultures
- Public realm
- Organizations
Kinds of data:
- Interviews
- Field notes
- Texts
- Visual data
- Transcripts
What can be studied:
9. AIMS
1. Seeing: through the eyes of the people being
observed
2. Description: paying attention to the mundane details
3. Contextualism : conveying messages in a complete
manner so that understand the wider social and
historical context
4. Process: viewing social life as involving interlocking
series of events
10. ETHNOGRAPHY
5. Flexible research design: adapting research
methods to various situations as they unfold
6. Process: viewing social life as involving
interlocking series of events
7. Flexible research design: adapting research
methods to various situations as they unfold
8. Avoiding early use of theories and concepts
12. DOING ETHNOGRAPHY
4 Separate Sets of Notes Needed:
1.Short notes made at the time
2.Expanded notes made as soon as
possible after the field session
3.A fieldwork journal to record problems
and ideas that arise during each stage
of field work
4.A provisional running record of
analysis and interpretation
(Spradley,
1979)
13. In order to increase reliability creating contact
summary sheets is suggested.
Why Important:
1.Guide planning
2.Suggests new or revised codes/themes
3.Coordinates several fieldworkers work
4.Serves as a reminder of the contact at a
later date
5.Serves as the basis for data analysis
14. Questions for Contact Summary Sheets:
1. What people, events, or situations were involved?
2. What were the main themes or issues in the contact?
3. Which research questions did the contact bear most
centrally on?
4. What new hypotheses, speculations, or guesses about
the field situations were suggested by the contact?
5. Where should the fieldworker place most energy during
the next contact, and what sorts of information should be
sought?
17. CRITIQUE OF ETHNOGRAPHIC
RESEARCH
ADVANTAGES
One of the most
valuable aspects is
the depth of
understanding
Can challenge ‘taken
for granted’
assumptions
DISADVANTAGES
Takes a long time
Does not have much
breadth
It can be difficult for
some to write up the
findings for a journal
article
18. METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES
Social researchers assumes a “learning role,” so
many scientific type questions will not work
when conducting social science research.
There are several methodological issues to
consider.
19. ISSUES
1. Defining a research problem
a) avoid early specification of definitions
hypothesis
- puts too many constraints on what you’re
observing
b) develop animating questions to consider
- narrow and focus
- limit your research topic
2. Choosing a research site
a) “case the joint”
3. Gaining access:
- closed or private
- open or public
20. 4. Finding an identity
a. Observers may change the situation just by their
presence
5. Looking as well as listening
a. explain the situation as you would to a sighted
person who is blindfolded
6. Recording observations
a. must decide what is the best format to record note
in
b. must decide what to “weed out”
c. analyze as you go/catagorize
21. THE TITLES OF STUDIES:
• Gang-Related Gun Violence.”
• “The Dignity of Job-Seeking Men.”
• “Telling the Code of the Street.”
• Streets, Sidewalks, Stores, and Stories.
• “The Power of Names.” 7
• “On Thick Description and Narrative Inquiry in Music
Education.” 8
• “Inside High School: The Student’s Perspective.”
22. For example Franz Boas studied the indigenous
people of the north west Pacific coast, Alaska and
Siberia.
Photographs of the Jesup North Pacific Expedition
which Boas was involved in can be found by following
this link:
http://anthro.amnh.org/anthropology/databases/pho
to_jesup.htm
EXAMPLES OF ETHNOGRAPHY
23. • “Ethnographic research is, in many respects,
the most complex of all research methods…”
(Helen et al. ,2012)
25. WHAT IS
HISTORICAL
RESEARCH?
Focuses on the
past.
Is the systematic
collection and
evaluation of data to
describe, explain, and
thereby understand
action or events that
occurred sometime in
the past
There’s no
manipulation or
control of
variables
26. THE
PURPOSE
OF
HISTORICAL
RESEARCH
To make people aware
of what has happened
in the past so they may
learn from past failures
and successes
To learn how things were
done in the past to see if
they might be applicable to
present-day problems and
concerns.
To assist in prediction. If
a particular idea or
approach has been
tried before, even
under somewhat
different circumstances,
past results may offer
policy makers some
ideas about how
present plans may turn
out.
To test hypotheses
concerning relationships
or trends.
To understand
present
educational
practices and
policies more fully.
27. STEPS IN HR?
Defining the
problem
Locating
relevant
sources
Summarizing
information
obtained from
historical
sources
Evaluating
historical
sources
28. DEFINING THE PROBLEM
• Purpose of a historical study in education is to
describe clearly and accurately some aspect of
the past as it related to education or schooling
• Researchers aim to do more than just describe,
they want to go beyond description to clarify and
explain and sometimes to correct
• In HR problem maybe selected for study for
which insufficient data are available.
• Data of interest, such as diaries or maps from a
particular period cannot be located in historical
research.
29. LOCATING RELEVANT SOURCES
CATEGORIES OF SOURCES
After researchers has decided on the problem or question to be investigate, the search of sources begins.
DOCUMENTS
- Written or printed
documents which
have been produced
in some form or
another (annual
reports, artwork, bills,
books, legal records,
newspapers,
magazines, diaries,
court records and
etc.)
- Published or
unpublished.
NUMERICAL
RECORDS
- Any type of
numerical data in
printed records
include any type of
numerical data in
printed form: test
scores, attendance
figures, census
report, school
budgets.
ORAL STATEMENTS
- Another valuable
source of
information for the
historical
researcher are the
statements people
make orally.
- interviews, stories,
myths, tales,
legends, chants,
songs, and other
form of oral
expression.
RELICS
- Any object whose
physical or visual
characteristics can
provide some
information about
the past. Examples
furniture, artwork,
clothing, buildings,
monuments,
equipment.
30. Examples of Historical Studies
I. “Shakespeare Under Different Flags: The
Bard in German Classrooms from Hitler to
Honecker”
II. “A better Crop of Boys and Girls: The School
Gardening Movement, 1890-1920”
III. “Indian Heart/White Man’s Head: Native-
American Teachers in Indian Schools”
31. EXAMPLES OF HISTORICAL SOURCES
• Attendance records from two different school
districts over a 40-year period.
• A taped oral interview with a secretary of
education who served in the administrations
of three different U.S presidents.
• A diary kept by a woman teacher on the Ohio
frontier in the 1800s
• Samples of clothing worn by students in the
early nineteenth century in rural Georgia.
32. Primary VS Secondary Sources
PRIMARY SOURCES
• Prepared by an individual
who was a participant in or
direct witness.
• Example: an eyewitness
account of the opening of a
new school.
SECONDARY SOURCES
• Document prepared by an
individual who was not a
direct witness but obtained
description of the event
from someone else.
• Example: a newspaper
editorial commenting on a
recent teachers’ strike
would be an example.
Whenever possible, historians want to use
primary sources than secondary sources. Why?
33. SUMMARIZING INFORMATION OBTAINED
FROM HISTORICAL SOURCES
• When a researcher rely on secondary data sources, he or she
increases the chance of the data being less detailed/or less
accurate.
• Data one collects under categories related to the problem being
studied; and summarizing pertinent information.
• Categorical data simply indicate the total number of objects,
individuals, or events a researcher finds in a particular category.
• Example : researcher who reports the number of students
completing a program in successive years, is reporting
categorical data.
• Notice that, researcher are looking for the frequency of certain
characteristics, objects, individuals, or events.
• Example : a study investigating the daily activities that occurred
in nineteenth century elementary schoolrooms. categories :
subjects taught, learning activities, play activities.
34. EXAMPLE OF HISTORIANS
ENGAGE IN RESEARCH
ASSUMPTION
DIVIDE
WORKS
FILLING
NOTEBOOKS
WITH FACTS
WRITE
FROM
BEGINNING
TO THE END
BEGIN TO
WRITE
AFTER
CAPITAL
SOURCES
MORE
WRITING,
BETTER
UNDERSTAN
DING THE
RELEVANCE
AND
SIGNIFICANC
E OF WHAT
TO FIND
35. EVALUATING HISTORICAL SOURCES
External Criticism
Refer to genuineness of the
documents researcher
uses.
Wanted to know whether
the documents they find
were really prepared by the
author of the document
Sometimes, falsified
documents can lead to
erroneous conclusions.
Internal Criticism
Once satisfied that
document is genuine, they
need to determine if the
document is accurate.
Both the accuracy of the
information contained in a
document and the
truthfulness of the author
need to be evaluated.
Whereas external criticism
has to do with the nature
or authenticity of the
documents itself with what
documents says.
36. SAMPLE QUESTIONS OF INTERNAL
CRITICISM
• Who wrote this doc?
• For what purpose was the doc written?
• When was the doc written?
• Where was the doc written?
• Under what conditions was the doc written?
• Do different forms or versions of the doc exist?
37. SAMPLE QUESTIONS OF INTERNAL
CRITICISM
1. With regard to the author of the doc?
• Was the author present at the event he or she is describing?
• Was the author a participant in or an observer of the event?
• Was the author competent to describe the event?
• Was the author emotionally involved in the event?
• Did the author have any vested interest in the outcomes of the
event?
2. With regard to the contents of the doc?
• Do the contents make sense?
• Could the event described have occurred at that time?
• Would people have behaved as described?
• Does the language of the document suggest a bias of any sort?
• Do other versions of the event exist?
38. DATA ANAYLSIS IN HR
• Historical researchers must find ways to make
sense out of what is usually a very large amount
of data and then synthesize it into meaningful
narrative of their own.
• Operate sources from theoretical model that
helps them organize the information they have
collected.
• A coding system maybe useful.
• Some historians, used quantitative data to
validate interpretations derived from documents,
such as crime and unemployment rates.
39. ADVANTAGES AND DISADVANTAGES OF HR?
ADVANTAGES
• Permits investigation of topics
and questions that can be
studied
• Wider range of evidence than
most other methods
• Provides an alternative and
richer source of information
with other methodologies
DISADVANTAGES
• Measures used in other methods to
control for threats to internal validity
are simply not possible in a HR
• Limitations imposed by the nature of
the sample of documents and the
instrumentations process are likely to
be severe
• Unable to ensure representativeness
of the sample
• Possibility of bias due to researcher
characteristics
• Possibility any observed relationships
are due to a threat involving subject
characteristic.
• Difficult type of research to conduct
• Need skills of linguistics, chemist and
archeologist.
40. Q&A SESSION
1. What would you say is the most difficult
aspects of ethnographic research?
2. Ethnographic studies are rarely replicated.
Why do you supposed this is do?
3. Which of the steps involved in historical
research do you think is the hardest to
complete? Why?
4. Do researchers can ensure the
representatives of the sample? Why?
5. Historians usually prefer to use primary
rather than secondary sources. Why?