This article aimed to explore teachers’ beliefs on reflective practice in their professional life and envision perspectives for transforming practice. I used auto/ethnography as a research methodology critically reflecting the self others’ lived experiences of teaching science, mathematics, technology context Nepal. explored that is required understanding our deep-seated dominant cultural pract...

Rosa: Tape 1, Side B The recording begins in a delicatessen. Rosa is with her mother and twin brother. Over the noise of cars passing the shop, Rosa’s mother can be heard ordering some Cabanas while Rosa sings a song by her favourite pop group 5ive. As they leave the shop, Rosa says goodbye to the shopkeeper who had given the twins a free meat pie each. Their mother asks them to wait until they...

The concept "cyberethnography" remains undefined in the social sciences while, at the same time, still overlapping too much with the more well-known concept of "virtual ethnography." The aim of our paper is to remedy this situation by underlining new directions in the ethnographic study of computer mediated settings. To do so, we define cyberspace as computer-mediated contexts intrinsically rel...

Being Between Binary is a visual critical auto-ethnography, combining collage, cartoon, narrative and photomontage in the form of four-page A2 scrapbook. Conceptually materially, design combines map memoir, placing Massey’s concept power geometry into dialogue with personal experiences sexuality gender. The piece explores binaries geographies here/there, Global North/South, through lens borderl...

Research into workplace mentoring is principally focussed on predictors and psychosocial and instrumental outcomes, while there is scarcely any in-depth research into relational characteristics, outcomes and processes. This article aims to illustrate these relational aspects. It reports a co-constructed auto-ethnography of a dyadic mentoring relationship as experienced by mentor and protégé. Th...

AIM Nurses are increasingly embracing ethnography as a useful research methodology. This paper presents an overview of some of the main characteristics we considered and the challenges encountered when using ethnography to explore the nature of communication between children and health professionals in a children's hospital. BACKGROUND There is no consensual definition or single procedure to ...

The ability of teachers to use assessment data inform decisions related learning and teaching defines effectiveness. However, maximise the benefits teacher decision-making, there is a need ensure that all across school are supported engage in whole-school approach ensuring students different stages supported. This paper reports on case study building an culture with strong focus using range for...

In this paper we discuss how institutional ethnography, a feminist materialist method of inquiry, can be use to study the social institution of housing. We begin providing a brief description of institutional ethnography and then recount how we are applying this approach in a study of changes in housing in the United States in the twentieth century. For purposes of illustration, we summarize tw...