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Familiarity and Distance in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Field Positions and Relations in Adult Education
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Duch, Henriette; Rasmussen, Annette – Ethnography and Education, 2021
Familiarity and distance is an issue that is much discussed in ethnographic fieldwork. This paper focuses on the topic of balancing familiarity and distance when the researcher is directly or indirectly part of the field, which in the study consists of an adult education context of two different teacher-training courses for upper secondary…
Descriptors: Familiarity, Ethnography, Adult Education, Researchers
A Portrait in Black and White: An Analysis of Race in the Adult Education Classroom
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DeBerry, Tealia N. – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Adult education is a reciprocal relationship between adult learners and adult education practitioners. As such, it is essential to understand the experiences of adult educators and adult education practitioners as they teach adults. This study focuses on how ideas about race and racism are examined in the graduate-level classroom and the adult…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Adult Educators, Adult Students, Racial Bias
Problematising Short-Term Participant Observation and Multi-Method Ethnographic Studies
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Brockmann, Michaela – Ethnography and Education, 2011
This article reports on a study of apprentices in England and Germany designed to explore young people's learner identities over time and in relation to particular learning environments. The research adopts a multi-method ethnographic approach, combining biographical interviews with multi-site participant observation. The article problematises the…
Descriptors: Participant Observation, Research Design, Interviews, Ethnography
"It's for Us to Change that": Emotional Labor in Researching Adults' Learning--Between Feminist Criticality and Complicity in Temporary, Gendered Employment
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Malcolm, Irene – Adult Education Quarterly: A Journal of Research and Theory, 2012
There has been little exploration of emotional labor in researching the learning of adults, and emotional labor on the part of research contractors has scarcely featured in published debates. The article explores the role of emotion in this context from a critical feminist perspective, drawing on life history data from a study of the learning…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Biographies, Critical Literacy, Feminism
Lessons Learned about Random Assignment Evaluation Implementation in the Classroom
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Moorthy, Savitha; Sanchez, Raquel; Tseng, Fannie – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2010
The objective of this paper is to provide some practical insight into the process of implementing large-scale randomized controlled trials (RCT) in educational settings and to provide general recommendations for researchers conducting education-based RCTs in the future. The authors draw their recommendations from their recent experiences…
Descriptors: Research Methodology, Science Experiments, Research Design, Educational Research
The Other in Educational Research: Some Postmodern Implications for Educational Practice, Theory, Research and Professionalism
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Loewenthal, Del – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2003
This article explores various questions through examining such postmodern thinkers as Derrida, Lacan and, in particular, Levinas. Can educational research be an ethical practice? Should educational research be about putting the other first? What is the responsibility of the educational researcher for the educators' responsibility? What is the…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Ethics, Educational Researchers, Postmodernism