Microethnography

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Microethnography

• How Teachers Really Do Look at their Classrooms

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Observation

• Skills
• Strategies
• Attitudes
• eyes in the back of the head

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Ethnography

• ????? ethnos people
• Cultural Social Anthropology
• Sociolinguistics
• Pedagogy Classrooms

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Microethnography

• slice of everyday reality, such as instruction
• Smith, 1978
• Stokrocki, 1988
• Bloome, et al 2005
• Streeck (to appear)

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Watching Children

• Montessori On Observation .pps
• Montessori (1912/1995)

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Observation Strategies

• Strategies .pps

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Perspective Taking

• Ability to understand ones own anothers
  viewpoint
• Observer- -gtO/P - -gtP/O- -gtParticipant
• Reflecting-in-Action
• Teacher-as-Learner
• Teacher-as-Researcher
• (Puckett Black, 2005).

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Analysis

• Accounting for Culture
• Developmental Milestones
• Interpreting Observations .pps

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Discourse Analysis

• How does language do things?
• Speech Act
• Speech Acts .pps

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Training Pre-service Teachers

• The Blue Book
• The Artifact
• The Whole
• Guidelines

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References

• Bloome, D., Carter, Christian, Otto,
  Shuart-Faris (2005) Discourse Analysis and the
  Study of Classroom Language and Literacy Events
  A Microthenographic Perspective. Lawrence
  Erlbaum.
• Montessori (1912/1995) The Montessori Method.
  Schocken Books.
• Puckett Black (2005) The Young Child
  Development from Prebirth Through Age Eight
• Smith, L (1978) An evolving logic of participant
  observation, educational ethnography, and other
  case studies. In L.S. Shulman (Ed.) Review of
  Research in Education, 6 (pp. 316-377).
  Ithasca,IL I.E. Peacock for the AERA.
• Stokrocki, M (1988) Teaching preadolescents
  during a nine-week sequence The negotiator
  approach. Studies in Art Education, 30 (1),
  37-46.
• J. Streeck Siri Mehus (to appear)
  Microethnography The Study of Practices.
  Handbook of Language and Social Interaction. Ed.
  by K. Fitch R. Sanders. Lawrence Erlbaum.

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Resources

• Beaty, J. (2002) Observing Development of the
  Young Child. Merrill.
• Billman Sherman (2003) Observation and
  Participation in Early Childhood Settings A
  Practicum Guide. Allyn Bacon.
• Curtis Carter (2000) The Art of Awareness How
  Observation Can Transform Your Teaching. Redleaf
  Press.
• Jablon, Dombro, Dichtelmiller (1999) The Power
  of Observation. Teaching Strategies.
• Leonard (1997) I Spy Something A Practical Guide
  to Classroom Observations of Young Children.
  SECA.