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Jef Van der Aa
Researcher at University of Jyväskylä
Publications - 6
Citations - 95
Jef Van der Aa is an academic researcher from University of Jyväskylä. The author has contributed to research in topics: Superdiversity & Context (language use). The author has an hindex of 5, co-authored 6 publications receiving 87 citations.
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Ethnographic Monitoring: Hymes's Unfinished Business in Educational Research
Jef Van der Aa,Jan Blommaert +1 more
TL;DR: The authors describes the process of Hymesian monitoring, a collaborative effort to understand voice in education, so crucial in Hymes's later work, and demonstrates how one can work from the voice of the pupil, through that of the analyst toward that of a teacher and back, checking what each party brought into the analysis and treating each of these voices as legitimate.
Ethnographic monitoring and the study of complexity
Jan Blommaert,Jef Van der Aa +1 more
TL;DR: This paper explore the value of long-term fieldwork in the context of ever-increasing complexity in social life, which stems from the phenomenon of "superdiversity" and the effects of globalization.