Performativity, Guilty Knowledge, and Ethnographic Intervention

Autor/in	Puttick, Steven
Titel	Performativity, Guilty Knowledge, and Ethnographic Intervention
Quelle	In: Ethnography and Education, 12 (2017) 1, S.49-63 (15 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745 -7823
DOI	10.1080/17457823.2015.1110039
Schlagwörter	Ethnography; Intervention; Job Performance; Productivity; Secondary School Curriculum; Lesson Observation Criteria; Classroom Observation Techniques; Ethics; Supervisory Methods; Teacher Evaluation; Research Methodology; Geography Instruction; Teacher Effectiveness; Performance Factors; Foreign Countries; United Kingdom (England) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Ethnografie; Work performance; Arbeitsleistung; Produktivität; Unterrichtsmitschau; Ethik; Teacher appraisal; Lehrerbeurteilung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Geography education; Geography lessons; Geografieunterricht; Effectiveness of teaching; Instructional effectiveness; Lehrerleistung; Unterrichtserfolg; Leistungsindikator; Ausland
Abstract	This paper applies Dennis' [(2009). "What does it Mean when an Ethnographer Intervenes?" "Ethnography and Education" 4 (2): 131-146] modes of ethnographic intervention to a fieldwork experience of an observed secondary school lesson in England. Ethnographic research raises numerous ethical dilemmas, in the face of which "intervention" is unavoidable. The observed lesson--in which a teacher was judged as "Requiring Improvement"--left me with "guilty knowledge". The performative nature of observed lessons constructs highly charged events. Drawing particular attention to the power imbalances between observer and observed, ethical deliberation about the event is considered, and subsequent "interpersonal" and "administrative" intervention is presented. As ethnographers, it is impossible to avoid intervening in some sense. I conclude that performativity raises ethical issues which may demand particular responses from ethnographic researchers, whose empathetic intention places them well to explore--and critically engage with--the workings and effects of performativity. [For "What Does It Mean when an Ethnographer Intervenes?," see EJ856724.] (As Provided).
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