Ethnographic Research Methodology - EDST5032
Faculty: Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences
School: School of Education
Course Outline: School of Education
Campus: Sydney
Career: Postgraduate
Units of Credit: 6
EFTSL: 0.12500 (more info)
Indicative Contact Hours per Week: 24
Enrolment Requirements:
Prerequisite: Enrolment in a postgraduate Education, Educational Leadership, Applied Linguistics, Translation & Interpreting program or Master of Teaching (Secondary). Master of Teaching (Secondary) students must have completed EDST6761 or EDST6765
CSS Contribution Charge: 1* (more info)
Tuition Fee: See Tuition Fee Schedule
Further Information: See Class Timetable
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Description
This course provides students with an overview of the philosophical, practical, and ethical issues – that is issues of methodology and methods - involved in designing and conducting ethnographic research in education. The course will also focus on data collection and analysis, examining issues involved in each of the overarching strategies of observations, interview and multi-modal approaches. Throughout the course, questions concerning the nature of knowledge, truth, and language, as well as issues of power, responsibility and ethics will be foregrounded.
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