Interactional Ethnography: Designing and Conducting Discourse-Based Ethnographic Research

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Focusing specifically on Interactional Ethnography (IE) as a distinct, discourse-based form of ethnography, this book introduces readers to the logic and practice behind IE and exemplifies the logic of ethnographic inquiry through a range of example-based chapters. Edited by two of the foremost scholars in the field of IE, this book brings together a body of work that has until now been largely dispersed. Illustrating how IE intersects with ethnographic methods – including observation, interviews, and fieldwork – the book highlights considerations relating to data analysis, researcher positionality, and the ethics of engaging participants in research. Offering examples of IE in international contexts and across a range of social science and educational settings, the book provides foundational principles and key examples of IE to guide readers’ work. This book offers researchers, scholars, and teacher educators a definitive, novel contribution to current methodological literature on IE broadly, and will be of particular use to ethnographers starting out in their career. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the volume in illustrating the use of IE in a range of educational sub-disciplines, the book’s relevance extends to the fields of medical education, teacher education, arts and literacy research, as well as providing situated examples of IE in settings with relevance to the social sciences, anthropology, and cultural studies. Cover Half Title Title Page Copyright Page Dedication CONTENTS List of Figures List of Tables List of Contributors Foreword by Stephanie Couch 1. Ethnographic Spaces of Possibilities: Interactional Ethnography in Focus PART 1: Languaculture in IE Programs of Research and Languaging in Focus 2. Understanding Interactional Ethnography as a Languaculture with a Bilanguacultural Guide 3. On Ethnographer-as-Learner and Theory Builder 4. Languaging the Social Construction of Everyday Life in Classrooms PART 2: Constructing and Engaging with Research Records and Participants 5. Video-Enabled Educational Ethnographies: The Centrality of Recordings in an Interactional Ethnography 6. Conversational Interviewing Grounded in Interactional Ethnographic Principles 7. Uncovering Cultural Levels Embedded in Student Arts-Based Practices 8. Collaborative Ethnography with Children: Building Intersubjectivity and Co-constructing Knowledge of Place PART 3: Constructing Logic-in-Use 9. Unfolding Principled Actions for Ethnographic Archiving as an Axis of Development 10. Mapping-Transcribing Processes Within IE Logic-of-Inquiry: On Studying a Languaculture-in-the-Making 11. Anchoring Analysis in Rich Points 12. Rethinking Participant Observation in Teacher Education PART 4: Commentaries 13. Interactional Ethnography as a Resource for Learning in K-12: Building Communities of Inquiry 14. Interactional Ethnography Across Space and Time Author Index Subject Index