Ethnography as an Inquiry Process In Social Science Research

An institutional ethnography inquiry of health care work in special education: a research protocol

BACKGROUND Special education for children with chronic health conditions or disabilities requires the integration of health care work with education. This phenomenon occurs in an understudied and challenging context for integrated care despite policies and protocols that outline work processes in this context. We are interested in an approach to inquiry that will allow us to address gaps in cur...

Afterword: Political Ethnography as Art and Science

Adam Ashforth has written one of the recent political ethnographies I most admire. His Witchcraft, Violence, and Democracy in South Africa draws on a total of about three years’ residence during the 1990s in Soweto (South West Township), an Apartheid-built black suburb of Johannesburg, plus subsequent visits to his adopted family and friends there. Earlier, Ashforth wrote an impressive historic...

Model-Driven Inquiry: Beyond Ethnography and Contextual Inquiry

1 Extended Abstract Model-driven approaches are of growing influence in interaction design owing to the promise of yielding more orderly and manageable processes with enhanced traceability from initial conception and the establishment of requirements through to design and final realization. Model-driven inquiry is an agile technique, an accelerated alternative in its own right to contextual inq...

Introductory remarks to an inquiry into the ethnography of Afghanistan

Quality in research as ‘‘taking an attitude of inquiry’’

Purpose – The paper aims to offer the notion of ‘‘taking an attitude of inquiry’’ as a quality process in research, enabling researchers to be aware of and articulate the complex processes of interpretation, reflection and action they engage in. The purpose is to consider this as a quality process that complements more procedural approaches. Design/methodology/approach – Drawing on 25 years exp...