About the authors. List of examples -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction to the Ethnographer's toolkit -- Defining ethnography in action. Introduction -- Defining the research/practice interface -- Defining context and community in ethnography in action -- The centrality of culture and social organization in community change efforts -- Defining values in action -- Organizational bases and training for ethnography in action -- The importance of collaborations and partnerships -- Summary -- Using ethnography in action to change systems. Introduction -- Interventions: a definition -- Investments in community-health and education -- Examples of shorter-term community-based research partnerships for change -- Summary -- Building partnerships and collaborations for ethnography in action. Introduction -- Contextual factors that favor ethnographic collaborations for change -- Advantages of ethnography and innovations that facilitate collaborative practice -- Ethnography is critical to identifying good community partners -- Principles of partnership research for social and transformational change -- Forming a research partnership -- Partnership characteristics and structures, and operating principles -- What maintains and sustains ethnographic research/ action parternships -- Advantages and challenges of research partnerships -- Summary -- Developing local theory: participatory modeling and intervention designs. Introduction -- Creating participatory theories of action or change -- Mental models: ecological models, root cause models, ecomaps -- Participatory scripts for constructing linear models- Further research to enhance models -- System dynamics modeling -- Ways of identifying intervention approaches from a model -- Summary -- Linking local and social science theories. Introduction. Defining "external" or "etic" theory in ethnography in action: revisiting theoretical paradigms -- Midrange multi-level practical theories that guide ethnography in action interventions -- Linking theoretical levels -- Summary -- Designing and developing intervention approaches. Introduction -- Deciding on an approach -- Core cultural concepts -- Identifying intervention levels -- Policy/structural-level interventions -- Sustainability -- Summary -- Designing evaluations of actions/interventions. Introduction -- Deciding on an evaluation standpoint -- Approaches to evaluation -- Tools of evaluation -- Types of evaluation designs for assessing outcomes -- Summary -- Sharing research results and multiple publics. Introduction -- Taking research results to the public: purposes, audiences, messengers, and formats -- Taking research and results to policy makers and inciting action -- Dissemination research: adapting and retesting or comparing and scaling up interventions -- Summary -- Participatory Action Research in community settings. Introduction -- Definitions -- Brief history of Participatory Action Research (PAR) -- Participatory Action Research theory and methods -- PAR instructional techniques and facilitation skills -- PAR methods -- Continuing the action research cycle -- Developing and sustaining PAR facilitators -- Ethical issues in PAR -- Summary -- Institutional infrastructure for teaching participatory action research in higher education settings. Introduction -- Opportunities and challenges in building infrastructure for teaching participatory action research in higher education settings -- Case examples: establishing infrastructure for PAR/CBPR in community settings -- Other university structures that foster PAR/CBPR work -- Resourcing community-based participatory action research efforts -- Summary -- Teaching community-based applied ethnography in higher education. Introduction -- Initial forays into community settings: service learning -- Designing and organizing coursework in participatory and applied ethnography -- Honors theses, culminating projects, Master's theses, and capstone projects -- Dissertations -- Training faculty and postdocs for CBR -- Summary -- References -- Index -- About the authors.
Summary:
"In Ethnography in Action ... Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte explore how ethnographic research intersects with and enhances numerous areas of practice. Schensul and LeCompte ground this book in the understanding that all applied or practice-oriented social science must be collaborative to be effective. Showing how informal and formal ethnographic methods and knowledge contribute to the arenas in which ethnographers work, the authors cover the typical practice settings raised in earlier books in the series and introduce two emerging arenas of concern: long-term fieldwork and participatory action research. With its methodological focus and skillful integration of guidelines, checklists, examples, and resources, Book 7 offers a unique guide to the practice of mixed methods ethnography over time and with community involvement"--Back cover.
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