Doing Fieldwork at Home

Loukia K. Sarroub is professor of literacy studies and education & linguistics and chair of graduate programs in the Department of Teaching, Learning & Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she also has a courtesy professor appointment in the Department of Anthropology.Claire Nicholas is assistant professor of textiles and material culture in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising & Fashion Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

• Introduction: In the Field at Home Loukia K. Sarroub and Claire NicholasChapter 1: Fieldworking at Home: Exploring the Experiences and Strategies of Student Nurses and Veterinary StudentsVibeke Røn Noer and Camilla Kirketerp NielsenChapter 2: Identity, Positionality, and Discovery: Researching Race in Local ContextPhillip Ryan and Mary Anne PoeChapter 3: Can Basque be Protected in Multi-ethnic Environments? Methodological Dilemmas in Basque School EthnographyElizabeth Pérez-IzaguirreChapter 4: Navigating Insiderness in a Study of Newcomers’ Construction of Citizen IdentitiesTricia GrayChapter 5: “You Pulled the Chair from Right Under Me?” How a Black Young Man Disappears from a High School Reading ClassLoukia K. Sarroub Chapter 6: Gaining Access to Students’ Informal Conversations with Peers: An Explorative Approach on Educational Research and Staging of Recording DevicesCharlotta RönnChapter 7: Home and Away: Crafting an Engaged Ethnography of Textile and Entrepreneurship TrainingClaire Nicholas and Surin KimChapter 8: Collaborative Intersectionality in Researcher-Participant Relations at a Hispanic Serving InstitutionJen StacyChapter 9: Being a Researcher-Teacher in an Action-Oriented School Research Project on Welding: Perspectives, Positions, and Ethical DilemmasStig-Börje Asplund, Nina Kilbrink, and Jan AxelssonChapter 10: Teachers as Ethnographers in Schools: Research Dynamics at a Waldorf School in the PhilippinesThijs Jan van SchieChapter 11: The Familiar and the Foreign: The Schooling of System-Involved Youth Sarah Staples-FarmerOnwardLoukia K. SarroubBibliographyAuthor Biographies

his timely collection boldly engages new and fluid understandings of being in the “field” in “home” contexts. Drawing from the sustained ethnographic and theoretical work if its contributors, the book offers a critical global perspective on the enduring fieldwork tensions in education between distance and proximity (whether temporal or spatial), the role of teacher and researcher, and the complexities that arise when researchers committed to doing relational work within their own home fieldwork locations – the workplace, the university, the neighborhood, or the school — must document, and, at times, interrupt the very social reproduction processes in which they participate. The authors in this volume inspire ways to renegotiate the meanings of home and fieldwork, but more importantly, they also intervene in the broader disciplinary field by advancing new ways to renegotiate the meaning and purpose of ethnographic inquiry.