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Researcher Roles in a School-Based Ethnography

Methodological Developments in Ethnography

ISBN: 978-0-7623-1437-9, eISBN: 978-1-84950-500-0

Publication date: 10 January 2007

Abstract

The roles that ethnographers adopt in their fieldwork are “perhaps the single most important determinant of what he [or she] will be able to learn” (McCall & Simmons, 1969, p. 29). My purpose in this paper is to demonstrate that these roles can be in a state of rapid flux, depending not only on who the researcher is interacting with, but also on a complex system of constantly changing settings for those interactions.

Citation

Hopwood, N. (2007), "Researcher Roles in a School-Based Ethnography", Walford, G. (Ed.) Methodological Developments in Ethnography (Studies in Educational Ethnography, Vol. 12), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 51-68. https://doi.org/10.1016/S1529-210X(06)12004-5

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