Week 5

Welcome to Week 5 of EDUC 643. It was good to see you tonight. I hope our face-to-face class was helpful. Thank you for sending your blog urls, so I could post them to our Class Blog Roll. From now on you can post your Reading Responses (RRs) on your blog. Even post a url if you create a google doc or a website tool.


Before we meet next time, please do the following:
1. "Add a Gadget" under "Design" to link back to our class blog url. This will make it possible to click on your blog link and then easily click back to our Class Blog.


2. Reading Response 16 & 17: Read and explore the Photo Essays, Documentaries and Acting Arts-Based Inquiry Methodologies, Examples and Resources on our Cougar Course. Create two of the following:
a. Lesson plan using the art methodology in your classroom
b. Plan for using the art-based methodology in your research
c. Art displaying your research data

You chose if you want the two items to be from Photo Essays, Documentaries or Acting.

3. Reading Response 18: READ Laurel Richardson's (2000). Evaluating Ethnography, Qualitative Inquiry, 6(2), pp. 253-255. 

In your blog write, How will this article inform your research?

4. If you have not provided your first feedback to your writing partner, please do so before we meet again and bring a copy of the writing and feedback to our class Session 7. 

5. Write a revision to your Choice Assignment based on the feedback and prepare to share it with your partner Week 8.

Welcome to EDUC 643: Critical Ethnography in Education

Welcome to CSUSM's EDUC 643: Critical Ethnography in Education. 
 This is a hybrid course, where part of the sessions will be face-to-face (F2F) and some will be online. For the sessions online, you will be able to explore course content asynchronized, at the same time as your classmates. You will not be required to do online activities during class hours (synchronized), Wednesday 5:30-8:15 pm, but you will be required to do the set activities prior to our next F2F class session. This course is designed to fit maximize your learning and fit your busy schedule.

There are three main assignments:

Reading Responses (30 total = 30 points)
The Reading Responses are intended to guide your reading and help you master the content. Use your skimming skills to find the key part of the reading and respond.

Ethnographic Research (20 points)
The Ethnographic Research Assignment is to help you practice ethnography with a small team. We will go over the assignment in class to prepare for the data collection. Then we will bring the data to class for the analysis, interpretation and representation.

Choice Assignment (50 points)
The Choice Assignment, is just that, your choice. You will have the opportunity to chose an activity that you can incorporate ethnography and arts-based inquiry. Chose something that you are already doing this semester, double dip. Apply the ethnographic/arts-based inquiry to your thesis/project, a curriculum you are creating, or an assignment for another class.


To share your assignments, start a blog.
Go to BLOGGER, create an account and start your own blog.
Use this blog to post your reading reflections and share links to your Ethnographic Research or Choice Assignment. I suggest that you use Google Docs for your work. This will enable you to share it with classmates and have your peer writer edit your Choice Assignment Drafts. If you need assistance go to the PLN Tools Tab.