(Auto)Ethnography Analysis (Part 2) (Thursday)

(Auto)Ethnography Analysis

Part One:

In groups of 2-3, discuss what you want to see on the grading contract for Sequence 2. Only one person per group needs to document the grading criteria you want added. Come up with as many or as few criteria you deem necessary. I'll base the grading contract off of everyone's responses.

Part Two:

In the same groups, share your field notes and mini-ethnography homework with each other and answer the following questions. Only one person per group must submit your responses. [OPTIONAL] - While you and your group members are responding to the questions, practice taking field notes. Write down everything you see, hear, learn, etc. Try to focus on what you find to be important about the "in-class assignment experience." You will use these field notes in Part Three.

Questions:

1. Who is in your group?
2. What communities did they choose for their ethnographies?
3. Why did they choose these communities?
4. What is their relationship with the communities?
5. How did they let their participants know about the ethnography?
6. How did the participants react?
7. What (if any were necessary) steps were taken to protect the participants?
8. What do their field notes look like? How do they compare to yours?
9. Summarize their ethnographies (in a sentence or two). What happened? What did they focus on?
10. What question did they hope to answer with their ethnography (there might not be one for this mini-ethnography)?
11. Did they participate in the community, or were they passive? Why?
12. Compare/contrast your ethnographies. What is similar? What is different?
13. What did they learn from their ethnographies?
14. Do you consider your own ethnography successful? Why or why not?

Part Three:

After you have answered the questions I want you to write your own! Using your field notes from earlier, write a research question you want to answer based on what you observed and what you learned about the "in-class assignment experience." After you've determined your primary research question, come up with two (2) questions you would ask your participants in a survey or questionnaire. Everyone in your group must submit their own research question and two (2) survey/questionnaire questions to Canvas. 

Part Four:

Once you have come up with your primary research question and two (2) survey/questionnaire questions, share them with your group and answer the following questions. You do not have to type up your responses - just have a thorough conversation.

Questions:

1. Discuss the similarities and differences of your primary research questions. What did each of you choose to focus on?
2. What do each of you want to learn from the experience?
3. Discuss the similarities and differences of your survey/questionnaire questions. What did you each of you choose to focus on?
4. How do you plan on answering your primary research question with the responses to your survey/questionnaire questions?
5. What (if any) risks could be posed by doing a larger scale version of this assignment? How could you avoid those risks?
6. Are you feeling more confident with this genre? Why or why not?
7. If you have plans for Sequence 2, share them with group! What community do you plan on observing? What question do you want to answer? What kind of ethnography will you conduct? How do you plan on protecting your participants?