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In this capstone title to the Ethnographer's Toolkit series, Jean J. Schensul and Margaret D. LeCompte explore how ethnographic research intersects with and enhances numerous areas of applied and practice-oriented social science.

Table of Contents:

• List of tables and figures
• List of examples
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction to the Ethnographer's toolkit
• Defining ethnography in action. Introduction
• Defining the research/practice interface
• Defining context and community in ethnography in action
• The centrality of culture and social organization in community change efforts
• Defining values in action
• Organizational bases and training for ethnography in action
• The importance of collaborations and partnerships
• Summary
• Using ethnography in action to change systems. Introduction
• Interventions: a definition
• Investments in community-health and education
• Examples of shorter-term community-based research partnerships for change
• Summary
• Building partnerships and collaborations for ethnography in action. Introduction
• Contextual factors that favor ethnographic collaborations for change
• Advantages of ethnography and innovations that facilitate collaborative practice

• Ethnography is critical to identifying good community partners
• Principles of partnership research for social and transformational change
• Forming a research partnership
• Partnership characteristics and structures, and operating principles
• What maintains and sustains ethnographic research/ action parternships
• Advantages and challenges of research partnerships
• Summary
• Developing local theory: participatory modeling and intervention designs. Introduction
• Creating participatory theories of action or change
• Mental models: ecological models, root cause models, ecomaps
• Participatory scripts for constructing linear models- Further research to enhance models
• System dynamics modeling
• Ways of identifying intervention approaches from a model
• Summary
• Linking local and social science theories. Introduction. Defining "external" or "etic" theory in ethnography in action: revisiting theoretical paradigms
• Midrange multi-level practical theories that guide ethnography in action interventions
• Linking theoretical levels
• Summary
• Designing and developing intervention approaches. Introduction
• Deciding on an approach
• Core cultural concepts
• Identifying intervention levels
• Policy/structural-level interventions
• Sustainability
• Summary
• Designing evaluations of actions/interventions. Introduction
• Deciding on an evaluation standpoint
• Approaches to evaluation
• Tools of evaluation
• Types of evaluation designs for assessing outcomes
• Summary
• Sharing research results and multiple publics. Introduction
• Taking research results to the public: purposes, audiences, messengers, and formats
• Taking research and results to policy makers and inciting action
• Dissemination research: adapting and retesting or comparing and scaling up interventions
• Summary
• Participatory Action Research in community settings. Introduction
• Definitions
• Brief history of Participatory Action Research (PAR)
• Participatory Action Research theory and methods
• PAR instructional techniques and facilitation skills
• PAR methods
• Continuing the action research cycle
• Developing and sustaining PAR facilitators
• Ethical issues in PAR
• Summary
• Institutional infrastructure for teaching participatory action research in higher education settings. Introduction
• Opportunities and challenges in building infrastructure for teaching participatory action research in higher education settings
• Case examples: establishing infrastructure for PAR/CBPR in community settings
• Other university structures that foster PAR/CBPR work
• Resourcing community-based participatory action research efforts
• Summary
• Teaching community-based applied ethnography in higher education. Introduction
• Initial forays into community settings: service learning
• Designing and organizing coursework in participatory and applied ethnography
• Honors theses, culminating projects, Master's theses, and capstone projects
• Dissertations
• Training faculty and postdocs for CBR
• Summary
• References
• Index
• About the authors.

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Author/Creator:

Schensul, Jean J.

Contributors:

LeCompte, Margaret Diane

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Ethnography in action: a mixed methods approach [by Schensul, J.J.]

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Ethnography in action [by Schensul, J.J.] (Lanham : Altamira Press, a division of Rowman & Littlefield, 2016 — ISBN 9780759122116; LCCN 2015037201; OCLC Number 930068046)

Related Series:

Ethnographer's toolkit (2010); [volume] 7

Subjects:

Ethnology — Methodology

Ethnology — Research

Ethnology

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Brief History of Participatory Action Research (PAR).
Description based on: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost, viewed January 16, 2018).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xxviii, 485 pages) : illustrations.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

GN345 .S36194 2016eb

ISBNs:

9780759122123
0759122121
9780759122116 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]
0759122113 (pbk., alk. paper) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

961452727