Educational ethnographies and histories and political and professional problems
The Doctoral School of Social Sciences and Humanities at Aalborg Universitet
Welcome to Educational ethnographies and histories and political and professional problems
Description:
Documenting educational problems and pointing out solutions by means of research data has been an increasing tendency in educational policy. Within the field of education research, both ethnographic and historical studies are a way to meet such politically defined expectations, while also aiming at challenging assumptions that political and public expectations rely on.
The course targets the challenge and question of how to establish open empirical educational studies through fieldwork, ethnographically inspired historical methods and archival work on contemporary educational issues and problem. How do we as education scientists establish empirical material by means of ethnographic and historical approaches? Which answers can such approaches (whether connected to each other or not) offer contemporary educational professional and political challenges within and beyond the formal education system? And how do we analyze the empirical material by means of theoretical lenses without drowning out the actors and the practices we study and who’s histories we aim to put in the fore?
At this two-day course we will establish a common laboratory for PhD-scholars and senior scholars doing ethnographic and historical research that deals with and goes behind and beyond educational issues, challenges and problems. We will share our laboratory work and challenges with each other.
The learning objectives are:
- to develop the competence of the participants to establish dialogues between field work based empirical material and oral and written sources - and theoretical tools.
- To extend the knowledge of the participant concerning the potential and sensitivities of ethnographic and historical approaches when used to explore educational professional and politically defined problems.
For additional information, updates, and registration, please refer to AAU PhD Moodle via the link provided on the right side of this page.