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Recontextualizing Observation: Ethnography, Pedagogy, and the Prospects for a Progressive Political Agenda.

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This article characterized observation as the fundamental base of all research methods in the social and behavioral sciences and characterized it as "the mainstay of the ethnographic enterprise" (Werner & Schoepfle, 1987, p. 257).
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Observation has been characterized as “the fundamental base of all research methods” in the social and behavioral sciences (Adler & Adler, 1994, p. 389) and as “the mainstay of the ethnographic enterprise” (Werner & Schoepfle, 1987, p. 257). Even studies that rely mainly on interviewing as a data collection technique employ observational methods to note body language and other gestural cues that lend meaning to the words of the persons being interviewed. Social scientists are

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On Co-Creativity in Playful Classroom Activities

TL;DR: In this article, a playful pedagogical design was created and facilitated in classroom to enable co-creativity in coping with and acting in a changing world, and qualitative data collection methods involved narrative-Socratic dialogues with teachers and students, field notes, and gameplay videography.
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Human resourse development through the exploitation of lifelong learning methods

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a list of tables and figures of the authors' work in the context of the research of Greek research in the field of computer science and computer graphics.
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A cultural footprint in Auckland’s public space

Grit Fichter
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present an interdisciplinary and exploratory study that seeks to identify transformations of the public space in Auckland's Northcote Town Centre produced by the Northeast Asian cultural group, particularly its Chinese community.
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Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook

TL;DR: This book presents a step-by-step guide to making the research results presented in reports, slideshows, posters, and data visualizations more interesting, and describes how coding initiates qualitative data analysis.
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Learning in the Field: An Introduction to Qualitative Research

TL;DR: This chapter discusses Qualitative Research as Learning as Learning, the role of the researcher as Learner, and major Qualitative research Genres.
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The Internet: An Ethnographic Approach

Danny Miller, +1 more
TL;DR: A rich ethnography of Internet use is presented in this article, which offers a sustained account not just of being online, but of the social, political and cultural contexts which account for the contemporary Internet experience.
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Research Methods in Cultural Anthropology

TL;DR: The Foundations of Social Research Anthropology and the Experimental Method Sampling Choosing Research Problems, Sites and Methods The Literature Search as mentioned in this paper Part Two: COLLECTING DATA Participant Observation Taking and Managing Field Notes Unstructured and Semistructured Interviewing Structured Interviewed Questionnaires and Survey Research Direct, Reactive Observation Unobtrusive Observation Part Three: ANALYZING Data Qualitative Analysis Coding and Codebooks for Quantitative Data Univariate Statistics Describing a Variable Bivariate Analysis Testing Relationships Multivariate Analysis