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On Critical Ethnographic Work
Author(s) -
Simon Roger I.,
Dippo Donald
Publication year - 1986
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.1986.17.4.04x0613o
Subject(s) - reflexivity , ethnography , sociology , critical ethnography , transformative learning , epistemology , politics , work (physics) , knowledge production , critical theory , inclusion (mineral) , social science , anthropology , political science , pedagogy , computer science , knowledge management , law , mechanical engineering , philosophy , engineering
This article provides an introduction to critical ethnographic work. Critical ethnography is understood as a form of knowledge production which supports transformative as well as interpretive concerns. Three fundamental conditions for ethnographic work are discussed: (1) a particular “problematic” that defines data and analytic procedures in a way consistent with one's pedagogicall political project: (2) the engagement of such work within a public sphere that allows it to become a starting point for social critique and transformation; and (3) the inclusion of a reflexive inquiry which would identify the limits of its own knowledge claims.