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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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Practitioner to professional: de- and reconstructions of professional identities in the early years workforce
TL;DR: Analysis of how professional identities are constructed within the early years workforce in England reveals multiple, recurring and competing professional identities for early years workers which are shaped by powerful forces in the home, the workplace and wider communities through subjugation and feminised, not feminist, performativities.
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Doing Research on Sensitive Topics in Political Science: Studying Organised Criminal Groups in Cape Town
TL;DR: In this article, a case study on the impact of organized criminal groups on social control by the state is presented, where the authors provide an explanation of the specific research design and research methodology selected in order to analyse the features of the relationship between local governance, societies and organised criminal groups, as well as a review of the method and approach of a study done on a research topic in the field of political science.
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Teacher Learning Made Visible: Collaboration and the Study of Pedagogical Documentation in Two Childcare Centres
TL;DR: In this paper, early childhood educators formed two teacher learning groups to study pedagogical documentation in two Reggio-inspired childcare centres in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and participants collaborated throughout six to seven research meetings to discuss and reflect upon documentation that they created.
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Conceptualizing Service Quality in Multichannel Fashion Retailing
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the service quality perception of experienced multichannel customers and proposed a framework to understand the customers' perceptions of service quality in multi-channel fashion retail settings.
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Gråtens mange ansikter – Toner og tempo i barnehagen
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the becoming body in a preschool context, with special reference to the youngest children and define through analyses the body as a material subject, and show how the child is constituted and constructed through complex relational networks.
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Qualitative Data Analysis: An Expanded Sourcebook
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