Field Research in Education - Theory and Practice 00-0F-FRE
The course will enrich students understanding and use of social science methodology in practice. It will also enhance the knowledge of relevant vocabulary. Students will become more familiar with research tools used by ethnographers, anthropologists, sociologists and other social researchers. Tools and techniques of data collection:
Observation:
– participant and non participant
– hidden and not hidden
– methods of recording data (diary, field notes, coding, modern IT)
– benefits and drawbacks
Interviews: in-depth, casual, structured, unstructured
Interviewee – Interviewer dilemma
Choice of respondents
Observing and reading of cultural artifacts
The course will be a useful source of information for students who wish to plan their own field research or to improve their knowledge of preparatory research, research planning, data collection process, the analysis and the framing of the findings. Participants will actively engage with provided literature. They will have an opportunity to discuss practical issues of field research obstacles and dilemmas.
The lecturer is an experienced, cross-cultural field researcher who wishes to share her knowledge and experience with student passionate to take their own journey into field research.
Rodzaj przedmiotu
Koordynatorzy przedmiotu
Kryteria oceniania
Aktywne uczestnictwo, co-tygodniowe zadania, praca zaliczeniowa
Literatura
Basic
Clifford Geertz (1973) The Interpretation of Cultures.
Parts of E. Durkheim (1912) The elementary forms of religious life.
Odrowąż-Coates A. Socio-educational Factors and the Soft Power of Language: The Deluge of English in Poland and Portugal. New York: Lexington Books [Rowman & Littlefield] 2019.
Extended
Odrowąż-Coates A. (2015) A gated community as a 'soft' and gendered total institution, International Sociology, 30(3), pp. 233-249, Sage. doi: 10.1177/0268580915578759.
Odrowąż-Coates, Autobiographical experience as a tool of ethnographic study into the hidden world of Saudi women, kwartalnik Pedagogika Społeczna 2014, 1(51), pp. 45-56.
Odrowąż-Coates A. (2017) An ethnographic study about women
‐ The female researcher’s experience In: U. Markowska-Manista, J. Pilarska (eds.) An Introspective Approach to Women's Intercultural Fieldwork, pp. 13-51.
1 to choose from:
Whyte W (1943) Street Corner Society.
B.Ehrenreich’s (2001) Nickel and Dimed.
B.Thorne (1993) Gender play.
R. King (1979) All Things Bright and Beautiful?
H. F. Wolcott (1973) The Man in the Principles Office.
Shorter texts will be provided in a PDF. format and will include a wide selection of texts on methodology and research techniques.
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