Problematising ethnography and case study: reflections on using ethnographic techniques and researcher positioning

Parker‐Jenkins, Marie

doi:10.1080/17457823.2016.1253028

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“…The nature of societies within small islands is likely to be quite divided and individuals tend to be very much interested in matters concerning others (Baldacchino and Ferreira 2013 ). Furthermore, local communities can feel uncomfortable or even suspicious in the presence of tape recorders (Parker-Jenkins 2018 ). Taking these aspects into account, and considering that the researcher was unknown to the local community, notes were taken during and right after each interview to ensure that an adequate pool of stakeholders acceded to participate in the interviews and also provided tangible information.…”

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Mitigating seasonality patterns in an archipelago: the role of ecotourism

Agius

Briguglio

2021

Maritime Studies

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Due to their insularity and small economies, several islands have become reliant on tourism activity for the livelihood of their communities. Islands of the same archipelago have faced various challenges in terms of tourism growth and related impact. Primarily, tourism has been characterised by seasonality (the strong spatio-temporal concentration of tourists in a destination) especially in the most peripheral islands. In other cases, tourism has grown considerably resulting in overemphasis on mass tourism throughout part of the year. This is largely experienced due to Sand, Sun and Sea (3S) tourism. Fieldwork, including interviews with key stakeholders and ecotours off-season, was conducted in the Aegadian Archipelago, off the west coast of Sicily. Findings revealed that ecotourism not only is the preferred alternative form of tourism among stakeholders but is also possible and ideal as confirmed through the ecotours. This is because different ecotourism activities can be practised all year round, thus mitigating seasonality. In return, this can help ease the financial, social and environmental challenges associated with current tourism models improving the well-being of local communities. Marine ecotourism is considered as a means to give more value to marine protected areas and to make existing tourism activity in the peak season more sustainable.

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Mitigating seasonality patterns in an archipelago: the role of ecotourism

Agius

Briguglio

2021

Maritime Studies

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“…Our research on international schooling is based on an ethno-case study design (Parker-Jenkins, 2018) combining features of ethnography (such as a prolonged presence in the field ) and those of case study (with its in-depth use of multiple methods). This approach, we feel, best matches a Bourdieusian theoretical framework seeking to understand stakeholders’ positionality in the field and their habitus .…”

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The practice of choice-making: applying Bourdieu to the field of international schooling

Khalil

Kelly

2020

Jnl of Research in Internatl Education

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This paper presents findings from a recent study on choice-making among teachers, school leaders and parents in a for-profit British international school in Kuwait. Using a Bourdieusian field analysis, the choice-making of the various stakeholders is investigated to reveal their positionality within the school’s social space, to examine the resources they hold and the capitals in which they are willing to invest. We find that choices made by, and within, an international school reveal symbolic violence, and a ‘taken-for-granted understanding’ that this form of schooling (British- rather than American-style international schooling) is superior. Participants in the study included teachers, parents, graduating class students and school leaders. Teachers and parents were a representative mix of local (both Arab and non-Arab) and expatriate. The study makes an important contribution to the body of knowledge relating to international schools, in its theoretical framework and its inclusion of the wider stakeholder population, which together generate a deeper understanding of professional practice in the international school context.

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“…We wanted to better understand the extent to which our approach resonated with the lived worlds of our young people, and hence, how it might enable new forms of educational reflexivity and agency and associated educational change. As consequence, we decided to adopt an ‘ethno‐case study’ (Parker‐Jenkins, 2018) research design where the experiences of the young people were the main units of analysis and the intervention and teachers/the school sub‐units. Experience here is understood as the unity and identity of person and environment, which has practical, intellectual and affective‐emotional characteristics (Dewey, 1934/2008; Vygotsky, 1994).…”

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confidence: 99%

Curriculum projects, learner agency and young people’s fullness of life

Raffo

Roth

Buck

et al. 2020

The Curriculum Journal

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A recent article in this journal suggests that although learner agency is central to understanding young people's engagement with the curriculum, there is little exploration of such ideas in the field. In response, they argued for an Archerian approach to learner agency and a contextually, interpersonally, intra‐personally and temporally situated curriculum that suggests the centrality of young people's educational reflexivity and associated learner agency for mediating the structural aspects of their educational lives. We reflect on this thinking through the lens of a curriculum project the design of which was similarly inspired by the work of Margaret Archer. We do so through the eyes of Grace, one of the young participants in the project. We learn from Grace that learner agency and curriculum engagement is not, as Archer's framework suggests, a substantively self‐authored reflexive endeavour that can be made amenable to change through a bespoke curriculum project. Rather learner (agency) in young people might be more accurately theorised in pragmatist terms as something embedded in the drama of the fullness of their everyday lives of which the curriculum represents just a tiny part. The implications for the field of learner agency and curriculum studies are discussed.

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Problematising ethnography and case study: reflections on using ethnographic techniques and researcher positioning

Cited by 54 publications

References 42 publications

Mitigating seasonality patterns in an archipelago: the role of ecotourism

Mitigating seasonality patterns in an archipelago: the role of ecotourism

The practice of choice-making: applying Bourdieu to the field of international schooling

Curriculum projects, learner agency and young people’s fullness of life

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