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Institutional Ethnography in Educational Settings

Abstract Submissions Closed

Friday, 26 February 2021: 10:45-12:15
Location:

WG06 Institutional Ethnography (host committee)

Language: English

Session Type: Oral


Institutional ethnography (IE) was developed by Canadian sociologist, Dorothy E. Smith. It is a sociological mode of inquiry, which is used to illuminate how social relations are organized to produce the patterns and configurations of social life. In IE, the social or social relations are not theorized — rather they are understood as actual material relations among people. As such, an inquiry begins with people’s experiences, and these experiences serve as entry points for empirical investigations of the institutions, organizational structures, policies, legislation, discourse, and knowledges that mediate how people relate to one another and the world. This session invites papers which trace from ethnographic descriptions of people’s experiences in diverging educational and higher educational contexts. This could include, but is not restricted to, illuminating the intersecting institutional and policy relations, which shape the distribution of resources and opportunities (e.g. across race, class and gender lines). Of particular interest is the interplay between people’s diverse experiences and the textually-mediated institutional relations shaping the delivery and management of education and research.
Session Organizers:
Naomi NICHOLS, Faculty of Education, McGill University, Canada, naomi.nichols@mcgill.ca,
Laura PARSON, Auburn University, USA, Laura.parson@ndsu.edu
Rebecca LUND, University of Oslo, Norway, rebecca.lund@stk.uio.no
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