Interactional Ethnography Designing and Conducting Discourse-Based Ethnographic Research

Focusing specifically on Interactional Ethnography (IE) as a distinct, discourse-based form of ethnography, this book introduces readers to the logic and practice behind IE and exemplifies the logic of ethnographic inquiry through a range of example-based chapters. Edited by two of the foremost scholars in the field of IE, this book brings together a body of work that has until now been largely dispersed. Illustrating how IE intersects with ethnographic methods – including observation, interviews, and fieldwork – the book highlights considerations relating to data analysis, researcher positionality, and the ethics of engaging participants in research. Offering examples of IE in international contexts and across a range of social science and educational settings, the book provides foundational principles and key examples of IE to guide readers’ work. This book offers researchers, scholars, and teacher educators a definitive, novel contribution to current methodological literature on IE broadly, and will be of particular use to ethnographers starting out in their career. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of the volume in illustrating the use of IE in a range of educational sub-disciplines, the book’s relevance extends to the fields of medical education, teacher education, arts and literacy research, as well as providing situated examples of IE in settings with relevance to the social sciences, anthropology, and cultural studies.

Introduction: Ethnographic Spaces of Possibilities: Interactional Ethnography in Focus Audra Skukauskaite and Judith L. Green Part 1: Languaculture in IE Programs of Research and Languaging in Focus Understanding Interactional Ethnography as a Languaculture with a Bilanguacultural Guide Audra Skukauskaite and Liudmila Rupšiene On Ethnographer-as-Learner and Theory Builder W. Douglas Baker, Krisanna Machtmes, and Judith L. Green Languaging the Social Construction of Everyday Life in Classrooms Huili Hong and David Bloome Part 2: Constructing and Engaging with Research Records and Participants Video-Enabled Educational Ethnographies: The Centrality of Recordings in an Interactional Ethnography Susan Bridges Conversational Interviewing Grounded in Interactional Ethnographic Principles Audra Skukauskaite and Michelle Sullivan Uncovering Cultural Levels Embedded in Student Arts-based Practices Ruta Girdzijauskiene Collaborative Ethnography with Children: Building Intersubjectivity and Co-constructing Knowledge of Place Alba Lucy Guerrero, Ivonne Natalia Peña, and Maria Dantas-Whitney Part 3: Constructing Logic-in-Use Unfolding Principled Actions for Ethnographic Archiving as an Axis of Development Melinda Z Kalainoff and Monaliza Maximo Chian Mapping-Transcribing Processes within IE Logic-of-Inquiry: On Studying a Languaculture-in-the-Making Maria Lucia Castanheira, Judith L. Green, and Krisanna Machtmes Anchoring Analysis in Rich Points Kim Skinner Rethinking Participant Observation in Teacher Education Laurie Katz and Melissa Wilson Part 4: Commentaries Interactional Ethnography as a Resource for Learning in K12: Building Communities of Inquiry Beth V. Yeager Interactional Ethnography Across Space and TimeKristiina Kumpulainen

Audra Skukauskaite is Professor in the College of Community Innovation and Education at the University of Central Florida, USA. Judith L. Green is Distinguished Emerita Professor in the Gevirtz Graduate School of Education at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA.