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Researching as a Critical Secretary: A Strategy and Praxis for Critical Ethnography
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Chang, Ethan – International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education (QSE), 2020
This paper proposes a strategy for ethnographically investigating politically disparate education organizations. I develop the notion of researching as a critical secretary: a method of participant-observation conducted alongside those observed to hold the least formal power. Drawing on data from an initial empirical effort to implement this…
Descriptors: Power Structure, Praxis, Ethnography, Participant Observation