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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:
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?
Ethnography and utility: Who ‘uses’ ethnographies of education? How
are they used?
Ethnography and governance: What implications does the increasingly
close relationship between research and governance have for
ethnographic research practices?
Ethnography and/of educational policy: Can ethnographers both study
and influence the policy process? How is ethnographic knowledge
mobilised in policy?
Ethnography in the research economy: How are ethnographic (and
ethnographically-informed) research methods changing within and
beyond anthropology and education?
Ethnography and autonomy: Has engagement/advocacy become increasingly
imperative?
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
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Travel funding available.
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