Naptime at the O.K. Corral: Shane's Beginner's Guide to Childhood Ethnography

ISBN-13: 9781611328455 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 216 str.

Sally Campbell Galman

Opis

Listen up all you aspiring ethnographers interested in studying young uns. Shane the Lone Ethnographer needs to find out (lickety-split ) the basics of conducting research with young children (with the help of Billy the Literal Kid) in order to land a post-doc. position. Containing a homework assignment at the end of each chapter, this wise but witty Western-themed graphic textbook is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level students in departments across the social sciences including anthropology, education, and family studies.
In this book, Shane as well as readers
-attain a strong grounding in the theory, practice, and methodologies in the ethnography of childhood;
-develop an understanding of the special nature of childhood research, in particular that it should be descriptive and not predictive;
-receive guidance on navigating IRBs and other potential bureaucratic impediments."

O autorze

Sally Campbell Galman is Professor of Child and Family Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst College of Education. You can read more about her research, writing and art at www.sallycampbellgalman.com.