Speaking the Language of Power: Communication, Collaboration and Advocacy (Translating Ethnology Into Action)

ISBN-13: 9780750702034 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 196 str.

D. Fetterman; By David Edited by David; By David Edited

Opis

In addressing a variety of significant social issues, the authors of this book show ways of communicating effectively and successfully with powerful policy making bodies in their overall efforts to improve the world in which we live. Ethnographic insights and research findings by qualitative researchers throughout the world cover such diverse topics as environmental health and safety, the dropout problem, educational reform, AIDS education, homelessness and the education of gifted children. This book then details how these socially vital findings are presented qualitatively and quantitatively through discourse which has immediate impact on sponsors and policy decision makers. and advocacy with decision makers can noticeably affect today's society. It should be of interest to all practising researchers, anthropologists, educators decision makers, educationalists and sociologists.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Words as the Commodity of Discourse: Influencing Power, David M. Fetterman; Chapter 2 On Keeping an Edge: Translating Ethnographic Findings and Putting Them to Use—NYC’s Homeless Policy, Kim Hopper; Chapter 3 Testifying on the Hill: Using Ethnographic Data to Shape Public Policy, G. Alfred HessJr; Chapter 4 Ethnographic Research on AIDS Risk Behavior and the Making of Policy, Margaret R. Weeks, Jean J. Schensul; Chapter 5 Protocol and Policy-making Systems in American Indian Tribes, Linda Parker, Bertney Langley; Chapter 6 Communicating Evaluation Findings as a Process: The Case for Delayed Gratification, Jolley Christman, Elaine Simon; Chapter 7 Massaging Soft Data, or Making the Skeptical More Supple, Mary Jo McGee Brown; Chapter 8 Gaining Acceptance from Part Icipants, Clients, and Policy-makers for Qualitative Research, Joseph A. Maxwell; Chapter 9 An Evaluation Fable: The Animals of United Farms, Ronald E. Mertz; Chapter 10 A School Board’s Response to an Ethnographic Evaluation: Or, Whose Evaluation is this Anyway?, Mary Lopez de Abascal-Hildebrand; Chapter 11 A Framework for Conducting Utilization-focused Policy Research in Anthropology, Barbara Rylko-Bauer, John van Willigen; Chapter 12 Ethnography and Policy: Translating Knowledge into Action, David M. Fetterman;

O autorze

David M. Fetterman is Professor of Education at Stanford University and Sierra Nevada College; concurrently, Principal Research Scientist at the American Institutes for Research.