This book engages readers via the international contributions from "home" field sites around the world and international authors. Importantly, the various chapters address a wide spectrum of educational contexts - ranging from higher education, to K-12 public and private schools, to prison schools. The realistic accounts portrayed in each of the chapters address how local collaborations are instantiated through the research process, from access and data collection to the write-up phases. The major themes that emerge across the chapters highlight 1) positionality and negotiation of multiple roles, i.e., researcher, educator, colleague, friend, community member; 2) reconciling multiple, hybrid, and intersectional identities with varying insider/outsider statuses vis-a-vis research participants; 3) resulting power dynamics in connection to relational identities - sometimes conflicting, consolidating, equalizing, and/or elevating; 4) innovative methodological responses to these dilemmas; and 5) integrated research designs and research ethics, offering possibilities for participation and insights on the social impact of research findings. Each of the book's chapters thus individually and collectively treat and resolve local ways of doing home (field) work and highlight the creation and sharing of knowledge among researchers and research participants.
Introduction: In the Field at Home Loukia K. Sarroub and Claire Nicholas Chapter 1: Fieldworking at Home: Exploring the Experiences and Strategies of Student Nurses and Veterinary Students Vibeke Ron Noer and Camilla Kirketerp Nielsen Chapter 2: Identity, Positionality, and Discovery: Researching Race in Local Context Phillip Ryan and Mary Anne Poe Chapter 3: Can Basque be Protected in Multi-ethnic Environments? Methodological Dilemmas in Basque School Ethnography Elizabeth Perez-Izaguirre Chapter 4: Insider to Outsider: From Teacher to Researcher in the Same School Context Tricia Gray Chapter 5: "You Pulled the Chair from Right Under Me!": How a Young Man Disappears from a High School Reading Class Loukia K. Sarroub Chapter 6: Gaining Access to Students' Informal Conversations with Peers: An Explorative Approach on Educational Research and Staging of Recording Devices Charlotta Roenn Chapter 7: Home and Away: Crafting an Engaged Ethnography of Textile and Entrepreneurship Training Claire Nicholas and Surin Kim Chapter 8: Collaborative Intersectionality in Researcher-Participant Relations at a Hispanic Serving Institution Jen Stacy Chapter 9: Being a Researcher-Teacher in an Action-Oriented School Research Project on Welding: Perspectives, Positions, and Ethical Dilemmas Stig-Boerje Asplund, Nina Kilbrink, and Jan Axelsson Chapter 10: Teachers as Ethnographers in Schools: Research Dynamics at a Waldorf School in the Philippines Thijs Jan van Schie Chapter 11: The Familiar and the Foreign: The Schooling of System-Involved Youth Sarah Staples-Farmer Onward Loukia K. Sarroub Bibliography Author Biographies
