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Microethnography in Educational Settings: Observing Teachers' Real Classroom Practices

Explore the practice of microethnography to understand how teachers observe their classrooms, emphasizing skills, strategies, and attitudes. Learn about cultural anthropology, sociolinguistics, and pedagogy in classroom settings. Delve into observation strategies, perspective-taking, reflecting-in-action, and teacher-as-researcher concepts. Discover the importance of discourse analysis and training pre-service teachers using guidelines and artifacts.

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Microethnography in Educational Settings: Observing Teachers' Real Classroom Practices

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  1. Microethnography How Teachers Really Do Look at their Classrooms SERA Feb 8, 2007

  2. Observation • Skills • Strategies • Attitudes “eyes in the back of the head” SERA Feb 8, 2007

  3. Ethnography • ἔθνοςethnos = people • Cultural & Social Anthropology • Sociolinguistics • Pedagogy & Classrooms SERA Feb 8, 2007

  4. Microethnography slice of everyday reality, such as instruction Smith, 1978 Stokrocki, 1988 Bloome, et al 2005 Streeck (to appear) SERA Feb 8, 2007

  5. Watching Children • Montessori: On Observation .pps Montessori (1912/1995) SERA Feb 8, 2007

  6. Observation Strategies • Strategies .pps SERA Feb 8, 2007

  7. Perspective Taking • Ability to understand one’s own & another’s viewpoint • Observer- ->O/P - ->P/O- ->Participant • Reflecting-in-Action • Teacher-as-Learner • Teacher-as-Researcher (Puckett & Black, 2005). SERA Feb 8, 2007

  8. Analysis • Accounting for Culture • Developmental Milestones • Interpreting Observations .pps SERA Feb 8, 2007

  9. Discourse Analysis • How does language do things? • Speech Act • Speech Acts .pps SERA Feb 8, 2007

  10. Training Pre-service Teachers • The Blue Book • The Artifact • The Whole • Guidelines: SERA Feb 8, 2007

  11. 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. SERA Feb 8, 2007

  12. 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. SERA Feb 8, 2007

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