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Familiarity and Distance in Ethnographic Fieldwork: Field Positions and Relations in Adult Education
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Direct linkDuch, 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
Welsh, Paul J. – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2010
The paper opens with a discussion of some of the methodological difficulties inherent in comparative educational research, and outlines ways in which systemic inequalities in doing comparative work can be reduced. The social circumstances in Thanet and Lille are delineated, and the paper then considers structural differences in denominational…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Social Problems, Comparative Analysis, Educational Policy
