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Autor/in | Frydenlund, Jonas Højgaard |
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Titel | The Dirty Process of Creating Clean Absence Data: An Ethnographic Study |
Quelle | In: Scandinavian Journal of Educational Research, 67 (2023) 6, S.853-869 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Zusatzinformation | ORCID (Frydenlund, Jonas Højgaard) |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 0031-3831 |
DOI | 10.1080/00313831.2022.2070930 |
Schlagwörter | Ethnography; Attendance; Truancy; Classification; Data Analysis; Politics of Education; Data Use |
Abstract | In this ethnographic study, I present a single school's practice of registering and analysing absence from school. I show that teachers use various "dirty," interpretational contexts for understanding absence and make it classifiable in "clean" attendance categories -- a move that decontextualises the meaning of absence. When others in turn handle absence using such "clean," decontextualised data, they treat the many various absences as a single, compressed "absence pattern," a pattern which is explained in terms of a single reason derived from recontextualising the absence. I show that this process effectively excludes parents' and youths' own ways of interpreting absence. I argue from this that research should be mindful of the political nature of absence data, and that negotiating and gaining familiarity with children is a positive contribution to understanding absence and not unwanted dirt. (As Provided). |
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Update | 2024/1/01 |