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THE USE OF ETHNOGRAPHY AND GROUNDED THEORY IN EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH

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Battersby, David

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http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12424/3088
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http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7383
Abstract
The term 'ethnographic' has been heard a good deal lately in educational research circles, used in somewhat loose analogy to a procedure of ethnography by which the researcher spends a period more or less immersed in the society under study. A person in this position not only becomes vividly aware of multifarious aspects of social life that he or she might otherwise have missed or ignored; as a human being involved either directly or by empathy in events, the ethnographer also is forced to give attention to personal responses, an attention that is by nature subjective. Research carried on in this manner therefore deviates sweepingly from the rigorous model of hypothesis testing and planned, objective data collecting that has hypnotised educational research for so long; but it too demands a discipline. Battersby sketches out steps in interaction between data collection and concept refinement, in which he focuses on the requirement of an element of planned qualitative data analysis only too apt to be overlooked in the hurly burly of participant observation. RÉSUMÉ On entend de plus en plus dans les milieux de l'éducation l'adjectif ethnographique employé par analogie avec une méthode de l'ethnographie selon laquelle l'ethnographe passe un certain temps immergé dans la société qui fait l'objet de son étude. Ainsi immergé, l'ethnographe prend fatalement conscience de l'extrême diversité des aspects de la vie sociale qui auraient pu lui échapper autrement, mais ce n'est pas tout: en tant qu'être participant au quotidien de la vie soit directement soit par empathie, il est obligé de prêter attention à ses propres réactions, attention qui est par nature subjective. Il s'ensuit que ses recherches s'écartent radicalement du modèle rigoureux qui consiste à vérifier des hypothèses et à recueillir des données objectives et planifiées et qui obnubile depuis si longtemps les chercheurs en sciences de l'éducation; mais cela n'en exige pas moins une certaine discipline. Battersby esquisse les étapes de l'interaction entre la collecte de données et le perfectionnement des concepts et il s'attarde sur la nécessité d'un élément de l'analyse planifiée des données qualitatives qu'on risque trop d'oublier dans le tohu-bohu des observations du participant.
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1981-01-01
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http://mje.mcgill.ca/article/view/7383
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