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Critical Design Ethnography: Designing for Change
Author(s) -
Barab Sasha A.,
Thomas Michael K.,
Dodge Tyler,
Squire Kurt,
Newell Markeda
Publication year - 2004
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.2004.35.2.254
Subject(s) - ethnography , sociology , artifact (error) , participatory design , context (archaeology) , citizen journalism , epistemology , participatory action research , work (physics) , engineering ethics , computer science , anthropology , engineering , parallels , philosophy , mechanical engineering , paleontology , world wide web , computer vision , biology
This article describes critical design ethnography, an ethnographic process involving participatory design work aimed at transforming a local context while producing an instructional design that can be used in multiple contexts. Here, we reflect on the opportunities and challenges that emerged as we built local critiques then reified them into a designed artifact that has been implemented in classrooms all over the world.