The Value and Potential of Multisited Ethnography for Science Education Research: A Review of Jrene Rahm's "Science in the Making at the Margin"

Autor/in	Beeman-Cadwallader, Nicole
Titel	The Value and Potential of Multisited Ethnography for Science Education Research: A Review of Jrene Rahm's "Science in the Making at the Margin"
Quelle	In: Cultural Studies of Science Education, 7 (2012) 1, S.245-254 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1871-1502
DOI	10.1007/s11422-011-9373-z
Schlagwörter	Research Methodology; Ethnography; Scientific Literacy; Science Education; Educational Research; After School Programs; Self Concept; Sociocultural Patterns; Book Reviews; Youth; Data Analysis + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Research method; Forschungsmethode; Ethnografie; Naturwissenschaftliche Bildung; Bildungsforschung; Pädagogische Forschung; After school education; After-school programs; Program; Programs; Programme; Außerschulische Jugendbildung; Programm; Selbstkonzept; Soziokulturelle Theorie; Book reviewing; Book review; Rezension; Jugend; Jugendlicher; Jugendalter; Auswertung
Abstract	Rahm sought to illuminate how children and youth make meaning of science in three out-of-school time programs, and the identity work that is done through the trajectory of their youth toward their young adulthood. Through using multisited ethnography, she asserts that we can learn more about what the youth say about their science learning and science literacy development in these programs. She has revealed through her rich data the potential value of multisited ethnography for science education research. A similar theme of insider/outsider status to science emerged in each of the three sites. The nature of the data collected in Rahm's multisited ethnography allowed for the unveiling of the similarities in this theme, but also made evident the nuanced ways that this theme presented itself differently across the three sites. The additional potential came through in the varied data Rahm could have delved into and did not. A unique characteristic of ethnographic research, that is not necessarily present in other research methods, is that a wide array of varied data is collected. An analysis of documents, images, and observational field notes, which go beyond interview data, may provide deeper understandings previously untouched in science education. (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10