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Doing and writing an educational ethnography: epiphanies, hurdles and experience - Clayton

Published: 23 April 2008

Speaker: John Whelen
Date: Wednesday, 30 April 2008
Time: 1 - 2 pm
Venue: Building 6, Room G23, Clayton campus

Research into issues of gender and schooling, and in particular concerns about boys’ disaffection with schooling, have tended to ignore or gloss over the question of what it is to experience schooling, or (it would seem), to have schooling done to you. This seminar reports on how the focus on experience unfolded in the process of doing a research-based PhD, in this case an educational ethnography. Whereas the finished product may speak to a number of theoretical and practical issues (in this case connected with gender), the often messy work of doing ethnography is another matter. While in many ways this work remains the locus of student-supervisor relations, and may not explicitly enter the final thesis, it is no less significant as the context within which reflexivity is negotiated.

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