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Teaching Fieldwork to Educational Researchers
Author(s) -
Bogdan Robert
Publication year - 1983
Publication title -
anthropology and education quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.531
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1548-1492
pISSN - 0161-7761
DOI - 10.1525/aeq.1983.14.3.05x1702l
Subject(s) - apprenticeship , sociology , field (mathematics) , participant observation , educational research , pedagogy , teaching method , mathematics education , epistemology , social science , psychology , philosophy , linguistics , mathematics , pure mathematics
Until recently, participant observation and other forms of fieldwork were taught through apprentice relationships. Increasingly, formal courses are being taught to initiate novices into the field. This paper outlines one approach to teaching and invites the kind of dialogue and debate concerning research methods teaching that appears in the invited comments that follow.