Observing ethnographically educational processes

Journal title EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY
Author/s Zoran Lapov
Publishing Year 2025 Issue 2025/1
Language Italian Pages 15 P. 343-357 File size 0 KB
DOI 10.3280/ess1-2025oa19753
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Conducting research in education requires methodological-operational instrumentation that allows close and continuous observation of socio-pedagogical facts: in this respect, the method of ethnographic observation proves to be a survey tool capable of effectively contributing to the realisation of such a research purpose. Considering the fact that ethnographic observation in education not always clearly emerges as an autonomous methodology, while being interconnected with other methodological lines, the present reflection proposes to delve into and relaunch the use of observation method, as a methodological device running between empirical (participatory, fieldwork) and qualitative research in an intercultural and interdisciplinary perspective.

Keywords: ; pedagogical research; ethnographic observation; empirical-ethnographic method; educational processes; socio-pedagogical facts; intercultural perspective

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Zoran Lapov, Osservare etnograficamente i processi formativi in "EDUCATION SCIENCES AND SOCIETY" 1/2025, pp 343-357, DOI: 10.3280/ess1-2025oa19753