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Book SynopsisThis book engages readers via the international contributions from home field sites around the world and international authors. Importantly, the various chapters address a wide spectrum of educational contexts ranging from higher education, to K-12 public and private schools, to prison schools. The realistic accounts portrayed in each of the chapters address how local collaborations are instantiated through the research process, from access and data collection to the write-up phases. The major themes that emerge across the chapters highlight 1) positionality and negotiation of multiple roles, i.e., researcher, educator, colleague, friend, community member; 2) reconciling multiple, hybrid, and intersectional identities with varying insider/outsider statuses vis-à-vis research participants; 3) resulting power dynamics in connection to relational identities sometimes conflicting, consolidating, equalizing, and/or elevating; 4) innovative methodological responses to these dilemmas; an
Table of Contents
Introduction: In the Field at Home
Loukia K. Sarroub and Claire Nicholas
Chapter 1: Fieldworking at Home: Exploring the Experiences and Strategies of Student Nurses and Veterinary Students
Vibeke Røn Noer and Camilla Kirketerp Nielsen
Chapter 2: Identity, Positionality, and Discovery: Researching Race in Local Context
Phillip Ryan and Mary Anne Poe
Chapter 3: Can Basque be Protected in Multi-ethnic Environments? Methodological Dilemmas in Basque School Ethnography
Elizabeth Pérez-Izaguirre
Chapter 4: Insider to Outsider: From Teacher to Researcher in the Same School Context
Tricia Gray
Chapter 5: “You Pulled the Chair from Right Under Me!”: How a Young Man Disappears from a High School Reading Class
Loukia K. Sarroub
Chapter 6: Gaining Access to Students’ Informal Conversations with Peers: An Explorative Approach on Educational Research and Staging of Recording Devices
Charlotta Rönn
Chapter 7: Home and Away: Crafting an Engaged Ethnography of Textile and Entrepreneurship Training
Claire Nicholas and Surin Kim
Chapter 8: Collaborative Intersectionality in Researcher-Participant Relations at a Hispanic Serving Institution
Jen Stacy
Chapter 9: Being a Researcher-Teacher in an Action-Oriented School Research Project on Welding: Perspectives, Positions, and Ethical Dilemmas
Stig-Börje Asplund, Nina Kilbrink, and Jan Axelsson
Chapter 10: Teachers as Ethnographers in Schools: Research Dynamics at a Waldorf School in the Philippines
Thijs Jan van Schie
Chapter 11: The Familiar and the Foreign: The Schooling of System-Involved Youth
Sarah Staples-Farmer
Onward
Loukia K. Sarroub
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