Venturing into the unknown of ethnography: reflexive questions to love and cautionary ethics to live by

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This paper summarizes the discovery of an ethnographic self, the use of reflexive tales as methodology, and the development of four cautionary ethics for novice ethnographers. Ethnographic ethics to live by include: demonstrating care and concern, accepting risk and uncertainty, suspending judgment, and exercising the art of listening, selection and representing. Each ethic was lived in the field, developed through reflexive questioning, and further constructed, articulated and re-envisioned through research literature. The discussion of these four ethics is contextualized within an inquiry that focused on the use of text-to-speech technology in a Grade 5 classroom. Within these ethics, students were valued as collaborators in the process, offering suggestions to the inquiry when relevant. In the end, they felt comfortable viewing and discussing the value of text-to-speech technology as an intrusion to their reading process, a choice to make, or a life tool.View full textDownload full textKeywordsethnography, reflexivity, ethics, qualitative researchRelated var addthis_config = { ui_cobrand: "Taylor & Francis Online", services_compact: "citeulike,netvibes,twitter,technorati,delicious,linkedin,facebook,stumbleupon,digg,google,more", pubid: "ra-4dff56cd6bb1830b" }; Add to shortlist Link Permalink http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14623943.2011.609247