Teaching Ethnography Remotely: Centering the Social

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Teaching ethnographic research affords the possibility of using our field 's ontology and epistemology to apprentice new doctoral researchers who can widen our understanding of complex social practices of and participation within families, schools, and communities. We challenged ourselves to teach ethnographic research ethnographically during 2020-2021’s racial and COVID-19 pandemics. Drawing on Castagaño (2014), Pink et al. (2016), and Faulstich Orellana (2020) at this historic moment, we wrestle with preparing new researchers ethnographically online to engage in inquiry in and from hybrid and quarantined places. Our session builds on Author 1’s (2021) research on teaching ethnography and responds to questions about course design, instructional planning, and text-type choices and what these choices produce in this doctoral ethnography course.

Sub Unit

• World Education Research Association

Chair

• Maria José Botelho, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Papers

• Ways of Knowing and Doing Ethnographically: Course Re/Design - Maria José Botelho, University of Massachusetts Amherst

• Apprenticing Ethnographers: Examining How Critical Are Textual Practices - Theresa Y. Austin, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

• Negotiating Emergent Ethnographic Decision Making: Mentoring and Being Mentored - Syonara Tomoum, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Discussant

• Marjorie E. Faulstich Orellana, University of California - Los Angeles