'We Will Call You Madamii': A Researcher's Journey from Being Viewed as a Madame to a "Madamii" by Children in a Rural Village in India

Autor/in	Batra, Namrita
Titel	'We Will Call You Madamii': A Researcher's Journey from Being Viewed as a Madame to a "Madamii" by Children in a Rural Village in India
Quelle	In: Ethnography and Education, 18 (2023) 3, S.323-338 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Batra, Namrita)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1745 -7823
DOI	10.1080/17457823.2023.2233650
Schlagwörter	Researchers; Rural Areas; Indians; Foreign Countries; Social Distance; Interpersonal Relationship; Ethnography; Teacher Student Relationship; Females; Teacher Role; Educational Policy; Literacy; Family Environment; Educational Environment; Home Visits + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Researcher; Forscher; Rural area; Ländlicher Raum; Inder; Ausland; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Ethnografie; Teacher student relationships; Lehrer-Schüler-Beziehung; Weibliches Geschlecht; Lehrerrolle; Politics of education; Bildungspolitik; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Familienmilieu; Lernumgebung; Pädagogische Umwelt; Schulumwelt; Hausbesuch
Abstract	Researchers who wish to become insiders to children's cultural worlds need to genuinely engage with the difference in social power between them and their participants. Most published accounts of adult positionality have been provided by those who have explored children's school practices. The ethnography discussed in this paper focused on the home and school literacy practices of children in a rural village in India. Cognisant of the unequal teacher-student relationships in this part of the world, I positioned myself as a least-teacher which, I argue, presents a cultural approximant for the least-adult role extensively discussed in literature. The role enabled the children to view me differently from their teachers -- as a "madamii." In this paper, I discuss its various facets with the twin focus of examining the efficacy of the role for future research and its affordances for the vision of a teacher provided by Indian policy documents. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01