This book engages readers via the international contributions from home field sites around the world and international authors. Importantly, the various chapters address a wide spectrum of educational contexts ranging from higher education, to K-12 public and private schools, to prison schools. The realistic accounts portrayed in each of the chapters address how local collaborations are instantiated through the research process, from access and data collection to the write-up phases. The major themes that emerge across the chapters highlight 1) positionality and negotiation of multiple roles, i.e., researcher, educator, colleague, friend, community member; 2) reconciling multiple, hybrid, and intersectional identities with varying insider/outsider statuses vis-à-vis research participants; 3) resulting power dynamics in connection to relational identities sometimes conflicting, consolidating, equalizing, and/or elevating; 4) innovative methodological responses to these dilemmas; and 5) integrated research designs and research ethics, offering possibilities for participation and insights on the social impact of research findings. The books chapters thus individually and collectively treat and resolve local ways of doing home (field) work and highlight the creation and sharing of knowledge among researchers and research participants.

Loukia K. Sarroub is professor of literacy studies and education& linguistics and chair of graduate programs in the Department of Teaching, Learning& Teacher Education at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, where she also has a courtesy professor appointment in the Department of Anthropology.

Claire Nicholas is assistant professor of textiles and material culture in the Department of Textiles, Merchandising& Fashion Design at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln.

Introduction: In the Field at Home

Loukia K. Sarroub and Claire Nicholas

Chapter 1: Fieldworking at Home: Exploring the Experiences and Strategies of Student Nurses and Veterinary Students

Vibeke Røn Noer and Camilla Kirketerp Nielsen

Chapter 2: Identity, Positionality, and Discovery: Researching Race in Local Context

Phillip Ryan and Mary Anne Poe

Chapter 3: Can Basque be Protected in Multi-ethnic Environments? Methodological Dilemmas in Basque School Ethnography

Elizabeth Pérez-Izaguirre

Chapter 4: Navigating Insiderness in a Study of Newcomers Construction of Citizen Identities

Tricia Gray

Chapter 5: You Pulled the Chair from Right Under Me? How a Black Young Man Disappears from a High School Reading Class

Loukia K. Sarroub

Chapter 6: Gaining Access to Students Informal Conversations with Peers: An Explorative Approach on Educational Research and Staging of Recording Devices

Charlotta Rönn

Chapter 7: Home and Away: Crafting an Engaged Ethnography of Textile and Entrepreneurship Training

Claire Nicholas and Surin Kim

Chapter 8: Collaborative Intersectionality in Researcher-Participant Relations at a Hispanic Serving Institution

Jen Stacy

Chapter 9: Being a Researcher-Teacher in an Action-Oriented School Research Project on Welding: Perspectives, Positions, and Ethical Dilemmas

Stig-Börje Asplund, Nina Kilbrink, and Jan Axelsson

Chapter 10: Teachers as Ethnographers in Schools: Research Dynamics at a Waldorf School in the Philippines

Thijs Jan van Schie

Chapter 11: The Familiar and the Foreign: The Schooling of System-Involved Youth

Sarah Staples-Farmer

Onward

Loukia K. Sarroub

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