Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography

Ethnographers are particularly interested in writing. They have paid particular attention to the practices of making field notes and to the ways in which their public texts represent those that they have encountered and studied. To date there has been less attention paid to the kinds of writing that...

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Main Authors: Coles, Rebecca, Thomson, Pat
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Published: Taylor & Francis 2015
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description Ethnographers are particularly interested in writing. They have paid particular attention to the practices of making field notes and to the ways in which their public texts represent those that they have encountered and studied. To date there has been less attention paid to the kinds of writing that used to make sense of experiences in the field. We call this inbetween writing. By examining our own processes of inbetween writing, and drawing on the work of James Clifford, we have produced a nine-part heuristic of inbetween writing. We argue that the heuristic could be used in research methods education to highlight the importance of writing to ethnographic sense-making and knowledge production.
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spelling nottingham-324592020-05-04T17:20:08Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32459/ Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography Coles, Rebecca Thomson, Pat Ethnographers are particularly interested in writing. They have paid particular attention to the practices of making field notes and to the ways in which their public texts represent those that they have encountered and studied. To date there has been less attention paid to the kinds of writing that used to make sense of experiences in the field. We call this inbetween writing. By examining our own processes of inbetween writing, and drawing on the work of James Clifford, we have produced a nine-part heuristic of inbetween writing. We argue that the heuristic could be used in research methods education to highlight the importance of writing to ethnographic sense-making and knowledge production. Taylor & Francis 2015-10-07 Article PeerReviewed Coles, Rebecca and Thomson, Pat (2015) Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography. Ethnography and Education . ISSN 1745-7831 Writing ethnography methodology education arts education http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17457823.2015.1085324 doi:10.1080/17457823.2015.1085324 doi:10.1080/17457823.2015.1085324
spellingShingle Writing
ethnography
methodology
education
arts education
Coles, Rebecca
Thomson, Pat
Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography
title Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography
title_full Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography
title_fullStr Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography
title_full_unstemmed Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography
title_short Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography
title_sort beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography
topic Writing
ethnography
methodology
education
arts education
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32459/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32459/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/32459/