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Call for Papers
After Ethnography?
Anthropology, Education and the 'Knowledge Economy'
19-20 June 2008, Department of Education, University of Oxford
Do ethnographers in Education and Anthropology face common challenges? One
may be the increasing funding for, and use of, quasi-ethnographic
tools/methods/imaginaries in a wide range of interdisciplinary, applied,
commercial and policy research. Is this emerging realm of 'paraethnography'
reshaping academic research in the two fields? What is the nexus between the
academic discipline and ethnographic knowledge practices in these new
contexts? Is the rhetoric of collaboration and engagement changing the role
of the researcher?
Papers are invited from both disciplines that discuss recent ethnographic
work, and the use of ethnographic evidence within educational settings. The
workshop will explore the role played by 'symbolic analysts' in the new
knowledge economy, and encourage a critical discussion of the fields of
education, policy and governance in their use of ethnographic knowledge.
This two-day event seeks to reinvigorate the interaction between social
anthropology and education by fostering a comparative discussion of
ethnographic research practices, the challenges each field faces, and the
possible future of ethnographic work in each.
Workshop Themes:
1. Ethnographies of learning: How are ethnographic approaches to
studying schools, universities and non-formal learning changing? What
different expectations and claims do anthropology and education make on
ethnographic knowledge?
2. Ethnography and utility: Who 'uses' ethnographies of education? How
are they used?
3. Ethnography and governance: What implications does the increasingly
close relationship between research and governance have for ethnographic
research practices?
4. Ethnography and/of educational policy: Can ethnographers both study
and influence the policy process? How is ethnographic knowledge mobilised
in policy?
5. Ethnography in the research economy: How are ethnographic (and
ethnographically-informed) research methods changing within and beyond
anthropology and education?
6. Ethnography and autonomy: Has engagement/advocacy become
increasingly imperative?
7. Ethnographic futures: What is the future status of ethnographic
research practices in anthropology and education?
The workshop defines 'ethnographic' work inclusively, and submissions are
invited from researchers at all stages of their career. Please submit a 250
word abstract by 15 March 2008 to [log in to unmask] or
[log in to unmask] Travel funding available.
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