"From High Skill to High School": Illustrating the Process of Deskilling Immigrants through Reader's Theatre and Institutional Ethnography

Autor/in	Slade, Bonnie
Titel	"From High Skill to High School": Illustrating the Process of Deskilling Immigrants through Reader's Theatre and Institutional Ethnography
Quelle	In: Qualitative Inquiry, 18 (2012) 5, S.401-413 (13 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1077-8004
DOI	10.1177/1077800412439526
Schlagwörter	Employment Programs; Ethnography; Social Organizations; Work Experience; Immigrants; High Schools; Mixed Methods Research; Adult Education; Teachers; Foreign Countries; Interviews; Canada + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Employment program; Employment programme; Employment programmes; Beschäftigungsprogramm; Ethnografie; Employment experience; Job experience; Occupational experience; Berufserfahrung; Immigrant; Immigrantin; Immigranten; High school; Oberschule; Adult; Adults; Education; Adult basic education; Adult training; Erwachsenenbildung; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Ausland; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik; Kanada
Abstract	"From High Skill to High School" details the experiences of immigrant professionals in an adult education employment program. This research reveals that immigrants with graduate degrees and years of international work experience are put through curriculum designed for adolescents with limited work experience, and collectively perform more than 1.92 million hours of unpaid work annually in both community-based organizations and for-profit companies. In this mixed-method research project combining institutional ethnography with Reader's Theatre, the Reader's Theatre serves as a powerful medium to detail the process of deskilling. While Reader's Theatre complements the institutional ethnographic analysis by vividly bringing the data to life, representational issues emerge in combining the two approaches. For the playwright, the Reader's Theatre may seem overly detailed and less aesthetically pleasing. These details, however, are necessary to the analysis as they are vital clues to the social organization of power for the institutional ethnographer. (As Provided).
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Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10