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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).Abstract:
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 areread more
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On Co-Creativity in Playful Classroom Activities
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Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook
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