Understanding Linguistic Fieldwork offers a diverse and practical introduction to research methods used in field linguistics. Designed to teach students how to collect quality linguistic data in an ...ethical and responsible manner, the key features include: A focus on fieldwork in countries and continents that have undergone colonial expansion, including Australia, the United States of America, Canada, South America and Africa; A description of specialist methods used to conduct research on phonological, grammatical and lexical description, but also including methods for research on gesture and sign, language acquisition, language contact and the verbal arts; Examples of resources that have resulted from collaborations with language communities and which both advance linguistic understanding and support language revitalisation work; Annotated guidance on sources for further reading. This book is essential reading for students studying modules relating to linguistic fieldwork or those looking to embark upon field research.
International fieldwork is a significant element of the internationalization of the social work profession. This paper describes the expectations and experiences of social work students engaged in ...international field education. There are different models practised by universities for international exchanges and fieldwork. This paper focuses on the reciprocal agreements between universities to facilitate student fieldwork. The qualitative study presented here recruited participants from Australia, USA and India, who travelled internationally for their fieldwork. The findings highlight the expectations and experiences the students had during each phase of the international fieldwork and the learning, specifically with issues of cross-cultural practices, social work service delivery systems, setting specific requirements, adaptations and challenges found across the three themes of preparation and planning; undertaking placement; concluding and re-presenting fieldwork. The paper concludes by considering the implications of the findings and how these relate to international fieldwork pedagogy, supervision and models of international placements.
Being There Borneman, John; Hammoudi, Abdellah
01/2009
eBook
Challenges to ethnographic authority and to the ethics of representation have led many contemporary anthropologists to abandon fieldwork in favor of strategies of theoretical puppeteering, textual ...analysis, and surrogate ethnography. InBeing There,John Borneman and Abdellah Hammoudi argue that ethnographies based on these strategies elide important insights. To demonstrate the power and knowledge attained through the fieldwork experience, they have gathered essays by anthropologists working in Morocco, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Tanzania, the Canadian Arctic, India, Germany, and Russia that shift attention back to the subtle dynamics of the ethnographic encounter. From an Inuit village to the foothills of Kilimanjaro, each account illustrates how, despite its challenges, fieldwork yields important insights outside the reach of textual analysis.
PATTERNS OF LIFE MacNeill, Richard
Mediterranean archaeology,
01/2023, Letnik:
36
Journal Article
Recenzirano
The article uses themes of domination, isolation, and continuity to interpret successive patterns of change in historical settlement on the island of Kythera. Localities surveyed in the course of the ...Australian Paliochora-Kythera Archaeological Survey (APKAS) are grouped by topographic qualities consistent with these themes, and the presence of cultural material across a spectrum of historical periods is compared. Variations in settlement between themes across a span of historical periods, indicated by the presence of corresponding cultural material, are interpreted to discuss underlying dynamics and contributing processes.
At Home and in the Field Finney, Suzanne S; Mostafanezhad, Mary; Pigliasco, Guido Carlo ...
2015
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Crossing disciplinary boundaries, At Home and in the Field is an anthology of twenty-first century ethnographic research and writing about the global worlds of home and disjuncture in Asia and the ...Pacific Islands. These stories reveal novel insights into the serendipitous nature of fieldwork. Unique in its inclusion of “homework”—ethnography that directly engages with issues and identities in which the ethnographer finds political solidarity and belonging in fields at home—the anthology contributes to growing trends that complicate the distinction between “ insiders” and “outsiders.” The obligations that fieldwork engenders among researchers and local communities are exemplified by contributors who are often socially engaged with the peoples and places they work. In its focus on Asia and the Pacific Islands, the collection offers ethnographic updates on topics that range from ritual money burning in China to the militarization of Hawai‘i to the social role of text messages in identifying marriage partners in Vanuatu to the cultural power of robots in Japan. Thought provoking, sometimes humorous, these cultural encounters resonate with readers and provide valuable talking points for exploring the human diversity that makes the study of ourselves and each other simultaneously rewarding and challenging.
Fieldwork education is a vital component of occupational therapy education. Academic fieldwork coordinators face a shortage of qualified occupational therapists who are prepared to be fieldwork ...educators. This pilot study aimed to evaluate the effects of an online learning module developed to prepare occupational therapists to become fieldwork educators. A pre- and post-survey were used to measure changes in perceived preparedness following completion of an online learning module. A 39-item electronic survey measured perceived preparedness of the following fieldwork educator competencies: education, supervision, evaluation, and administration. Sixteen participants completed all three components of the study: pre-survey, the learning module, and post-survey. Significant findings indicate completion of the online learning module led to participants feeling more prepared to: (a) implement a professional development plan; (b) use a variety of instructional strategies; (c) use current supervision models and theories; (d) initiate interaction to resolve conflict; (e) communicate and collaborate with academic programs to integrate the academic curriculum; (f) complete and provide the academic program with required paperwork; (g) use fieldwork evaluation tools to accurately measure student performance and provide feedback; (h) design and implement a fieldwork program in collaboration with the academic fieldwork coordinator in accordance with Accreditation Council for Occupational Therapy Education (ACOTE) Standards; (i) document an organized, systematic, fieldwork program; (j) identify the legal and health care policies that directly influence fieldwork; and (k) complete an orientation for the student. Implementing an online fieldwork educator learning module had a positive impact on occupational therapists preparing for the role of Level II fieldwork educator.
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