autoethnographers, their readings, and their disciplinary orientations. Headwork involves personal passing reflections on theory or theorists as they apply or fail to apply to a particular event. Finally, writing and authorial points of view consist of: first person, having personally observed or having lived through an interaction – producing an intimate and immediate "eyewitness account”; and third-person - establishing the context for an interaction, the report of findings, and to present what others do or say (Ellis, 2011).
Site, Project and Participants
The researcher will be assessing viability and contextual elements in a pilot study. The selection of cultural informants will occur in a naturalistic manner and will be subsequently …show more content…
Inclusive of the use of direct observation, researcher’s direct participation in the life of the group, participation and observation of collective discussions, will all be recorded and bi-weekly redacted in field notes. Direct observational protocol (DOP) will be developed once on-site variables are assessed. DOP will include in-field notes on a bi-weekly basis. Depending upon the degree of participation available on the field. A detailed description of a particular activity of interest and a recording of how that activity is explained and interpreted by different actors; and how different physical objects and reified concepts are used, referred to and employed to the activity. DOP will consist of pre-observation processes such as framing questions, a private diary of emotional responses, a spiritual journal, an event log, and a record of decisions. I will principally be observing these activities internal optics of leadership, but will also ask questions after observation for clarification. I will ask different actors about their practices, seeking to bring to light logics, concerns, classifications, processes and meanings. Participant observation will be inclusive of informal interviews which are unstructured question-and-answer sessions where the informant(s) follow their own train of thoughts and happen spontaneously and/or will be structured on the field. Field notes from the observations will follow …show more content…
Employment of literature as a continually enlarging framework for analysis/interpretation will likely include missiological work, cross cultural educational work, cultural artifacts, study of cross cultural leadership work, and reading of existing educational ethnographies, as well as work in spirituality in education. This requires a structure or analytical framework of positioning theory perspective of an individual (self-positioning) and perspective of a wider society (other-positioning) through which the issue of identifying representative patterns can occur. Once this is completed on the field, then thematic analysis can occur by reviewing the field work and the use of a thematic map of key phenomena or process (Braun & Clarke,
Site, Project and Participants
The researcher will be assessing viability and contextual elements in a pilot study. The selection of cultural informants will occur in a naturalistic manner and will be subsequently …show more content…
Inclusive of the use of direct observation, researcher’s direct participation in the life of the group, participation and observation of collective discussions, will all be recorded and bi-weekly redacted in field notes. Direct observational protocol (DOP) will be developed once on-site variables are assessed. DOP will include in-field notes on a bi-weekly basis. Depending upon the degree of participation available on the field. A detailed description of a particular activity of interest and a recording of how that activity is explained and interpreted by different actors; and how different physical objects and reified concepts are used, referred to and employed to the activity. DOP will consist of pre-observation processes such as framing questions, a private diary of emotional responses, a spiritual journal, an event log, and a record of decisions. I will principally be observing these activities internal optics of leadership, but will also ask questions after observation for clarification. I will ask different actors about their practices, seeking to bring to light logics, concerns, classifications, processes and meanings. Participant observation will be inclusive of informal interviews which are unstructured question-and-answer sessions where the informant(s) follow their own train of thoughts and happen spontaneously and/or will be structured on the field. Field notes from the observations will follow …show more content…
Employment of literature as a continually enlarging framework for analysis/interpretation will likely include missiological work, cross cultural educational work, cultural artifacts, study of cross cultural leadership work, and reading of existing educational ethnographies, as well as work in spirituality in education. This requires a structure or analytical framework of positioning theory perspective of an individual (self-positioning) and perspective of a wider society (other-positioning) through which the issue of identifying representative patterns can occur. Once this is completed on the field, then thematic analysis can occur by reviewing the field work and the use of a thematic map of key phenomena or process (Braun & Clarke,