Diverse Applications of the Multivocal, Multi-Sited Video-Cued Ethnographic Method

Session Type: Professional Development Course

Abstract

This course will focus on the methodology of video-cued ethnography (VCE) as a means to reveal the cultural and political nature of everyday practices and policies and to compare those views across contexts and communities. Video-cued ethnography, also referred to as multivocal, multi-sited video-cued ethnography, refers to comparative work that utilizes video to prompt discussion, reflection, explanation and analysis by insider participants as a mechanism towards understanding shared patterns of understanding as well as divergence within and across communities. This course is meant to offer intermediate and advanced researchers a deeper understanding of video-cued ethnography through a range of examples from diverse scholars around the world. The course will include thematic short-form presentations and videos with small group discussions between experienced VCE researchers and early career researchers and graduate students. Basic knowledge or reading of video-cued ethnographic work is a requirement. This is not a beginner “how-to-do” VCE research course. Instead this course will focus on the ways in which VCE is being applied to diverse communities and contexts.

Sub Unit

• Professional Development and Training Committee

Directors

• Jennifer Keys Adair, The University of Texas at Austin

• Julie L. Kaomea, University of Hawaii - Manoa

Instructors

• Joseph J. Tobin, University of Georgia

• Patrick Graham, Rochester Institute of Technology

• Kiyomi Sánchez-Suzuki Colegrove, Texas State University

• Akiko Hayashi, Keio University

• Alejandra Barraza, Highscope Educational Research Foundation

• Bing Xiao, Austin Peay State University