Hi,
For some weeks ago Bob asked the list members to tell about our
projects. Here comes my presentation.
I am Elina Lahelma from the University of Helsinki, Finland. I am
involved in an ethnographic, crosscultural research project
'Citizenship, Difference and Marginality in Schools - with Special
Reference to Gender'. We have conducted research in secondary schools
in Helsinki and London, focusing on multilayered everyday life in
the official, the informal and the physical school. We explored
practices of differentiation and marginalisation, but also of
cooperation. Our study is contextualised in a comparative analysis on
educational policies in the era of restructuring. The Helsinki team is
coordinated by Tuula Gordon ([log in to unmask]), and four women who
participated in the ethnography are undertaking their own PhD studies
on specific themes of the project. In London Janet Holland
([log in to unmask]) is responsible.
The main reporting of the project is in a forthcoming book to be
published by Macmillan:
* Tuula Gordon, Janet Holland & Elina Lahelma: 'Making Spaces:
Citizenship and Difference in Schools'.
Several papers are currently in the process of transformation into
articles, and background to the study and earlier findings are
published in the following articles:
* Gordon, Tuula (1996): 'Citizenship, Difference and Marginality in
Schools: Spatial and Embodied Aspects of Gender Construction', in
Murphy. Patricia F. and Gipps. Caroline V. (eds) Equity in the
Classroom, Falmer Press.
* Gordon, Tuula & Lahelma, Elina (1996) '"School is like an Ants'
Nest"- Spatiality and Embodiment isn Schools', Gender and Education,
Vol. 8, No.3, pp. 301-10.
* Lahelma, Elina & Gordon, Tuula (1997) 'First Day in Secondary
School: Learning to be a "Professional Pupil"', Educational Research
and Evaluation, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 119-39.
We will continue our joint work in the schools, reinterviewing 'our'
students in and after post-sixteen education and organising group
discussions with the teachers ( in Helsinki). One of the themes that
we will focus on is constructions of Finnishness/Britishness in
schools.
Currently, the three of us are involved in writing a review
article on ethnographic research in education. This autumn we have
read about lots of interesting studies conducted in England, the USA,
Canada and Australia, but much less about those done in non-anglophone
countries. We would be happy to include in the bibliography articles
that are based on ethnographic research in education in other
countries, if they are published in English. Please let us know.
Thank you for the discussions on the list, with best regards
Elina
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