Journal
Ethnography and Education available from InformaWorld is an international journal that publishes articles to illuminate educational practices through empirical methodologies which prioritise the experiences and perspectives of those involved. We are open to a wide range of ethnographic research that emanates from the perspectives of sociology, linguistics, history, psychology and general educational studies as well as anthropology. The journal’s priority is to support ethnographic research that involves long-term engagement with those studied in order to understand their cultures, to use multiple methods of generating data and to recognise the centrality of the researcher in the research process.
We welcome substantive and methodological articles that seek to:
- explicate and challenge the effects of educational policies and practices and interrogate and develop theories about educational structures, policies and experiences
- highlight the agency of educational actors
- provide accounts of how the everyday practices of those engaged in education are instrumental in social reproduction and
- discuss new developments in ethnographic methodologies
Executive Committee
Ethnography and Education Journal - Volume 6 Issue 3
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- Murals as text: A social-cultural perspective on family literacy events in US prisons - Bill Muth
- Problematising school space for indigenous education: Teachers' and parents' perspectives - Tess Lea, Aggie Wegner, Eva McRae-Williams, Richard Chenhall, Catherine Holmes
- Producing the 'international' child: negotiations of language in an international preschool in Japan - Yuki Imoto
- Girls and gender in alternative education provision (8022) - Lisa Russell and Pat Thomson
- In the Thick of It: Interpreting Children's Play (8974) - Christopher Richards
- Marginalising students understanding of mathematics through performative priorities: A Bernsteinian perspective - Catarina Player-Koro
- Cheating as subversive and strategic resistance: Vocational students´ resistance and conformity towards academic subjects in a Swedish upper secondary school - Ronny Högberg
- Multi-site ethnography, hypermedia, and the productive hazards of digital methods: a struggle for liveness - Kathleen Gallagher and Barry Freeman
Ethnography and Education Journal - Volume 6 Issue 2
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- The Oxford Ethnography Conference: a place in history? - Geoffrey Walford
- Disciplinary technologies and pupil re-disposition: School equipment and homework diaries - Katrin U. Zaborowski and Georg Breidenstein
- State reforms threaten remote community life - Angela Kirby
- "I'm not going to be in Japan forever": How Filipina immigrant youth in Japan construct the meaning of home - Tomoko Tokunaga
- 'Learning on the Job: A Cultural Historical Activity Theory (CHAT) approach to initial teacher education across four secondary school subject departments' - Alaster Douglas
- An Ethnography of the outdoor classroom - How teachers manage risk in the outdoors - Ina Stan and Barbara Humberstone
- Problematising short-term participant observation and multi-method ethnographic studies - Michaela Brockmann
Ethnography and Education Journal - Volume 6 Issue 1 - Special Issue on Race
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- Intersections, theories, and meanings of race, racism, and educational ethnography - Rodney Hopson & Adrienne Dixson
- Black Emancipatory Action Research: Integrating a Theory of Structural Racialization into Ethnographic and Participatory Action Research Methods - Antwi Akom
- Ethnographic Investigations of Issues of Race in Scandinavian Education Research - Dennis Beach and Johannes Lunneblad
- Racialized Subjectivities: A critical examination of ethnography on Black males in the U.S., 1960s to early 2000s - Anthony L. Brown
- Elevating the Role of Race in Ethnographic Research : Navigating Race Relations in the Field - Keffrelyn D. Brown
- Racism, "race" and ethnographic research in multicultural Italy - Francesca Gobbo
- "Love Your China" and Evangelize: Race, Religion, Nationalism, and Immigrant Settlement in Canada - Huamei Han
Call for Papers for a Special Issue
General Call for Papers
Investigating Ethnography focusing on 'On-Line' Sites and Communities
Edited by Joan Parker Webster (University of Alaska) and Sofia Marquez da Silva (University of Porto)
This call for papers is for a Special Issue of the Routledge Journal 'Ethnography and Education' to be published in the summer of 2013. The main focus of this Special Issue is on the methodological issues associated with Ethnography On-Line and other relevant perspectives such as Netography
Focus
In this Special Issue, we would like to investigate the methodological issues, choices and techniques that underscore ethnography conducted in digital/online communities and cybercultures. The following are among the questions we seek to address:
- What does "entering the field" mean when conducting ethnographies in online contexts? How is this field defined, maintained? What are the mechanisms for leaving the field?
- How are field notes inscribed in online ethnography? Can participants contribute field notes?
- How does the notion of participation observation as construed in face-to-face ethnography translate to online contexts, which can also be multi-sited?
- How is the notion of practice conceptualized in online settings? How does this influence the research of practice in virtual and second world contexts? What are ways this research is carried out?
- What are principles and problems that must be addressed when using engagement with virtual contexts as a tool in ethnography, particularly in educational ethnography?
- How are potentially massive amounts of data collected and managed?
- How are visual and multimedia "texts" analyzed?
- How are notions of "public" and "private" construed? Who gets to decide whether a specific communicative act is to be viewed as public or private? What are participants' views of public and private? Even though the online space may be public, what are the participants' expectations of what is public and private?
- What does "anonymous" mean in online communities? Is a pseudonym connected to a participant's online persona really anonymous? How does this affect the notion of privacy as related to consent?
- What are issues related to authorship in online communities? How does participant authorship in Blogs, Wikis, Webpages, etc. interact with the final research write-up?
- What are the advantages and disadvantages of a methodology that is carried out entirely online (e.g. online interviews, observations, data collection, etc.)? What are the advantages and disadvantages of conducting a blended methodology, that combines both online and face-to-face aspects of data collection?
- What are the ethical issues specific to ethnography conducted in online communities and cybercultures? How do ethical procedures for in-person ethnography, particularly informed consent, translate to online media?
Abstracts
Please submit an abstract between 500-1000 words, which MUST include a clear outline of context, methodological issue or/and substantive research questions, details of relevant methodology/methods attached to the article, findings/argument and conclusion indicating research significance and possible further fruitful research areas.
Abstracts should be sent to Joan Webster and Sofia Marques da Silva by the 20 December 2011
Timeline:
- Invitations to submit full papers to the SI will be completed by 10 January
- Authors should submit full papers by the 1 March
- Peer review of all papers should be completed by May 1st
- Any authors invited to revise and resubmit final articles should complete these by the end of August
- The Final Manuscript should be submitted to the Journal Editors by Dec 1st 2012
Should any papers after the peer review be found to be unsuitable for the SI the Journal Executive will work with the authors to see if a place can be found in the main journal issues.
