Reflection on Researching Teachers' Professional Integrity: Being in the Setting of Ethnography

This short article is a reflective product of my experiences and learning while engaging in six month long ethnographic fieldwork with teachers from semi urban and rural community schools in Kavre district, Nepal. As an ethnographic researcher, I am still in contact with my research participants in...

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Main Author: Rupa Munakarmi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Kathmandu University 2018-12-01
Series:Journal of Education and Research
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Online Access:https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/JER/article/view/22155
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spelling doaj-049400557fe44d6091df16c94acf91362020-11-25T03:54:02ZengKathmandu UniversityJournal of Education and Research2091-01182091-25602018-12-0162838910.3126/jer.v6i2.2215522155Reflection on Researching Teachers' Professional Integrity: Being in the Setting of EthnographyRupa Munakarmi0Kathmandu University School of Education, LalitpurThis short article is a reflective product of my experiences and learning while engaging in six month long ethnographic fieldwork with teachers from semi urban and rural community schools in Kavre district, Nepal. As an ethnographic researcher, I am still in contact with my research participants in doing peer review and reflection of the listening, seeing and being within the topic. Specifically, this note reflects my positionality and challenges of interviewing, observing and presenting the initial findings. Moreover, this reflective note highlights ethnography as both a process and a product that evolves during the study time itself.https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/JER/article/view/22155IntegrityFieldworkTeachersMethodologyEthnography
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Reflection on Researching Teachers' Professional Integrity: Being in the Setting of Ethnography
Journal of Education and Research
Integrity
Fieldwork
Teachers
Methodology
Ethnography
author_facet Rupa Munakarmi
author_sort Rupa Munakarmi
title Reflection on Researching Teachers' Professional Integrity: Being in the Setting of Ethnography
title_short Reflection on Researching Teachers' Professional Integrity: Being in the Setting of Ethnography
title_full Reflection on Researching Teachers' Professional Integrity: Being in the Setting of Ethnography
title_fullStr Reflection on Researching Teachers' Professional Integrity: Being in the Setting of Ethnography
title_full_unstemmed Reflection on Researching Teachers' Professional Integrity: Being in the Setting of Ethnography
title_sort reflection on researching teachers' professional integrity: being in the setting of ethnography
publisher Kathmandu University
series Journal of Education and Research
issn 2091-0118
2091-2560
publishDate 2018-12-01
description This short article is a reflective product of my experiences and learning while engaging in six month long ethnographic fieldwork with teachers from semi urban and rural community schools in Kavre district, Nepal. As an ethnographic researcher, I am still in contact with my research participants in doing peer review and reflection of the listening, seeing and being within the topic. Specifically, this note reflects my positionality and challenges of interviewing, observing and presenting the initial findings. Moreover, this reflective note highlights ethnography as both a process and a product that evolves during the study time itself.
topic Integrity
Fieldwork
Teachers
Methodology
Ethnography
url https://www.nepjol.info/index.php/JER/article/view/22155
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