SOME APPROACHES TO INQUIRY IN SCHOOL-COMMUNITY ETHNOGRAPHY

Model-Driven Inquiry: Beyond Ethnography and Contextual Inquiry

1 Extended Abstract Model-driven approaches are of growing influence in interaction design owing to the promise of yielding more orderly and manageable processes with enhanced traceability from initial conception and the establishment of requirements through to design and final realization. Model-driven inquiry is an agile technique, an accelerated alternative in its own right to contextual inq...

Community of Inquiry in Adult Online Learning: Collaborative-Constructivist Approaches

The adult education literature emphasizes community building in order to increase effectiveness and success of online teaching and learning. In this chapter the Community of Inquiry Framework that was developed by Garrison, Anderson and Archer (2000) has been introduced as a promising theory for adult learning in online environments. The chapter discusses the potential of the CoI framework to c...

Introductory remarks to an inquiry into the ethnography of Afghanistan

community-based strategy to prevent deliberate self-harm in adolescence: an inquiry to find risk factors at school

conclusions the results confirm the available literature data, while noting that self-harming is a preponderantly male behavior. the results also signal the need to create opportunities to instruct teachers to combat the resistances and stereotypes of psychological distress. results data analysis confirms an association between self- cutting and alcohol use, sexual harassments, school dropout, ...

What Makes School Ethnography ‘Ethnographic’?

This paper began as a long memorandum to participants in a research training session on ethnograhic research conducted for the American Educational Research Association in 1972. One of the participants attending that presession was Arthur A. Katz, then one of John Singleton’s students. Katz edited my essay for publication in the Anthropology and Education Newsletter. The editing was skillful an...