Classroom Practices and Private Tuition in the Maldives: Methodological Reflections on an Ethnographic Study

2016 ◽  
pp. 117-131
Author(s):  
Maryam Mariya
Keyword(s):  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Private Tuition

Home Musical Environment of Children in Singapore

2008 ◽  
Vol 56 (2) ◽  
pp. 101-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chee-Hoo Lum
Keyword(s):  
Music Education ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Peer Groups ◽  
First Grade ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Popular Media ◽  
Media Culture ◽  
Musical Play ◽  
The Media ◽  
Home Musical Environment

The home musical environments of a class of 28 first-grade children in Singapore were examined in this ethnographic study. Technology was an integral part of the soundscape in the home. The musical repertoire gathered was closely associated with electronic and pop-influenced music, approaching the styles favored by teens and adults. Particular musical styles and selections that the families listened to and watched through the media also fueled these children with a sense of ethnic identity and nostalgia. Children's popular media culture was part of these children's broader social repertoire, creating a shared frame of reference for their musical play and generating cultural capital that was valued within their peer groups. Consideration of the various contexts in which these children learn about music, where their musical identities are being shaped under the influences of their techno-, media-, and ethnoscapes (dimensions proposed by Arjun Appadurai), has implications for music education classroom practices.

scholarly journals Language -Learning: The Importance of Access to Community

1999 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
pp. 40 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kelleen Toohey ◽  
Elaine Day
Keyword(s):  
North America ◽  
Language Learning ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Response Evaluation ◽  
Group Activities ◽  
Linguistic Resources ◽  
Primary Classrooms ◽  
Esl Learners ◽  
Small Group Activities

This article is based on data derived from a four-year ethnographic study that followed two cohorts of ESL learners enrolled in mainstream Canadian primary classrooms from kindergarten through grade 2. It draws on sociocultural theory, based on the work of the Russian scholars Vygotsky and Bakhtin and developed in North America by Lave and Wenger (1991), Rogoff (1994), and others. In the article, we examine classroom practices that appear to offer our participants access to the linguistic resources of their community and those in which our participants appear to have limited access to these resources. Choral and small group activities are contrasted with Initiation-Response-Evaluation (IRE) sequences to show contrasting possibilities for access. We argue that speech situations in classrooms that are ludic or playful, that, in Bakhtin's (1981) terms, offer ever new ways to mean, are those in which children have the possibility of appropriating the words of others and of finding voices and utterances for themselves.

Dilemmas of race, register, and inequality in South Africa

2017 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-56 ◽  
Author(s):  
James Collins
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Social Inequality ◽  
Strong Evidence ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
School Staff ◽  
Language Diversity ◽  
Racial Categorization ◽  
Register Analysis ◽  
Racial Hierarchies

AbstractThere is strong evidence that legacies of Apartheid remain in place in South Africa's education system, entangling economic inequality, racial categorization, and de facto language hierarchy. This study draws from an ethnographic study of language diversity in a Cape Town public school, focusing on how classroom practices regulate and school staff frame language diversity and social inequality among their pupils. It uses the concepts of language register, sociolinguistic scale, and racialization to analyze how education policy, classroom practices, and school discourses about language in South Africa implicate class and racial hierarchies. It shows how register analysis reveals multi-scaled connections between linguistic and social inequality. (Language registers, education, social inequality, South Africa)*

scholarly journals SCIENCE CLASSROOM PRACTICES IN AN ISLAMIC RELIGIOUS SECONDARY SCHOOL: ADAPTING CLASSROOM ETHNOGRAPHY

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (10) ◽  
pp. 70-89
Author(s):  
Amnah Abdullah ◽  
Mohd. Zaki Ishak ◽  
Robert Francis Peters
Keyword(s):  
Secondary School ◽  
Nature Of Science ◽  
Classroom Practices ◽  
Science Classroom ◽  
School Science ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Science Classrooms ◽  
Classroom Ethnography ◽  
Beliefs And Values

This article is a response to the article “Classroom Ethnography: Adapt or Adopt?” The aim of this article is to guide potential local postgraduates on the coding process for the selected classroom ethnography which is not well understood. Qualitative data collection and data analysis were used from a larger ethnographic study. We explored in-depth the influence that culture has on learning science in an Islamic Religious Secondary School form five science classrooms. The ethnographic fieldwork capturing the informants’ beliefs and values central to their distinctive way of life could provide emerging data for understanding the culture sharing group’s learning of science in a period of time. The choice of manual coding attempts to describe the nature of science classroom practices at this Islamic Religious Secondary School science classroom. This article presents findings that adapting classroom ethnography is possible. We found that the students’ initial sources of cultural influence are the nature of science classroom practices.

Roles, rules and rituals: An ethnographic study of a community of the chronically mentally ill

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vadim Moldovan ◽  
Alexandru Ciobanu ◽  
William Divale ◽  
Anatol Nacu
Keyword(s):  
Mentally Ill ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Chronically Mentally Ill

How Low-Income Mothers Seek Quality Health Care for Their Children: An Ethnographic Study

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marquia Blackmon ◽  
Sherry C. Eaton ◽  
Linda M. Burton ◽  
Whitney Welsh ◽  
Dwayne Brandon ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Ethnographic Study ◽  
Quality Health Care ◽  
Quality Health ◽  
Low Income Mothers
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