Thisarticle describes critical design ethnography, an ethnographic process in­ volvingparticipatory design workaimed at transforming a local contextwhile producing an instructional design that can beused in multiplecontexts. Here, we reflect on the opportunities and challenges that emerged as we built local critiques thenreified them intoadesignedartifact thathasbeen implemented in classrooms a...

Improvisation is an attempt to transcend the self in a moment of intuitive action. It expression knowledge beyond ordinary consciousness, embodied wisdom emptiness. Unlike composition, as musical practice, improvisation way express depths (un)known and knowing (un)knowing. As framework for artistic research, can provide insight into that yet not easily articulated. In this article, I will docum...

Sociologists understand the term ‘organization’ in very broad terms to mean any structure by which social life and behaviour are managed. The term is more narrowly understood to mean formal organizations with a bureaucratic structure. Some formal organizations process ‘clients’, like schools and police stations, where the principal purpose is the management of people and their needs. Others are...

The second Māori student to enrol at the University of Oxford, Makereti studied anthropology in intellectual epicentre British Empire from 1927 1930, participating transnational academic networks by writing about her own people. Her work was published posthumously as Old-Time Maori , now acclaimed an unprecedented auto-ethnography. Exploring a forgotten seam revisionist anthropology, this artic...

This article aims to use the two authors’ life experience, as English teachers, and university academics in U.K., China Australia, improve an understanding how trajectories can assist exploration of cultural difference changes. Our experiences be utilized a means responses change differences influenced. Using collaborative auto-ethnography research method offers readers opportunities engage wit...

98 Introduction Collectively qualitative research is a group of methodologies, with each approach offering a different lens though which to explore, understand, interpret or explain phenomena in real word contexts and settings. This article will provide an overview of one of the many qualitative approaches, ethnography, and its relevance to healthcare. We will use an exemplar based on a study t...

All matters related to ethnography flow from a decision that originates at the very beginning of the research process—the selection of the basic object of analysis— and yet fieldworkers pay scant attention to this crucial task. As a result, most take as their starting point bounded entities delimited by location or social classification and in so doing restrict the kinds of arguments available ...