Kultur und Methode. Über die Relevanz rekonstruktiver Verfahren für die Erforschung fremdkultureller Lagen

Cappai, Gabriele

doi:10.3790/sint.46.2.131

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“…According to Cappai (2010), reconstructive methods for the analysis and interpretation of documents are particularly sensitive to phenomena relating to foreign cultures and to differences: ‘Research in foreign cultures relies on a complex strategy, which requires that different sources of information and types of data are taken into consideration. Besides the reconstruction of the participants’ meaning constructions, socio-structural information as well as ethnographic and historical knowledge have become necessary requisites for social scientists’ (151).…”

Section: On Observation and Observingmentioning

confidence: 99%

The function of contextual knowledge: A videotaped class session in France

Schelle

2015

Research in Comparative and International Education

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This paper concerns seeing; specifically, what should and what can be seen in a classroom situation in a progressive school in Paris. It focuses on a lesson given in a foreign cultural context and the possibility of documenting it and reconstructing it: first, as far as possible, unaffectedly and out of context, to achieve comparative and interpretative classroom research. The emphasis will be on the way the subject matter is set up and the role the learners assume. It will become apparent that technical recordings, which are helpful in allowing literal transcriptions and descriptions, tempt us into abandoning objectiveness, thereby overlooking certain facts and circumstances. Only contextual information that is subsequently acquired, and repeated considerations of the actions/practices of individual participants, will allow for a new perspective of observations. It is the possibility of videography that renders actions and reactions ‘visible’, revealing that which had formerly gone unnoticed.

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Section: On Observation and Observingmentioning

confidence: 99%