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Understanding Ethnography
Prof. Nina Sabnani · IIT Bombay
About
The purpose of this course is to introduce learners from different disciplines and backgrounds to the fundamental concepts, process and practice of ethnography. The course will offer an introduction to various tools and methods that form ethnographic practice. This is underpinned by an introduction to the concepts, theories and debates that form the theoretical basis of ethnographic research. While the course will be structured in the forms of video lectures, readings and exercises, we hope to design each of these to give the learner as much practice based learning as possible. This also makes the course relevant to practitioners.In this way, we hope, the course will aid the learner in honing their existing knowledge of the subject with a view to improve their practice and application of it. Alternately, it will offer an opportunity for new learners to enter into practice supported by an expansive understanding of the subject.
Intended audience: Open to All
Lectures
Week 1
- Lecture 1: Introduction
- Lecture 2: Situating Ethnography
- Lecture 3: Engaging with the Other
- Lecture 4: Equality and Empathy
- Lecture 5: Notions of Reality
- Lecture 6: Objectivity and Subjectivity
- Lecture 7: Conclusion
Week 2
- Lecture 1. Introduction
- Lecture 2. The Ethnographic Process
- Lecture 3. Ethnography: Process or Product
- Lecture 4. Fundamental Concepts
- Lecture 5. Fundamental Concepts (cotd.)
- Lecture 6. Conclusion
Week 3
- Lecture 1. Introduction
- Lecture 2. The Research Question
- Lecture 3. Is Ethnography the Method?
- Lecture 4. Accessing Existing Knowledge
- Lecture 5. Designing Fieldwork
- Lecture 6. Case Studies: Research Question & Applying Ethnography
- Lecture 7. Case Studies: The Value of Existing Knowledge
- Lecture 8. Case Studies: Identifying Participants, Places, Activities
- Lecture 9. Case Studies: Access & Impact
- Lecture 10. Conclusion
Week 4
- Lecture 1. Access: Not Just Consent
- Lecture 2. Challenges of Access
- Lecture 3. Building Rapport
- Lecture 4. Gaining Trust
- Lecture 5. Limits to Access
- Lecture 6. Immersion
- Lecture 7. The Ethics of Engaging
- Lecture 8. Conclusion: Covert and Overt Research
Week 5
- Lecture 1. Introduction
- Lecture 2. Types of Observation
- (ALM) LxT 1. Observing Imponderabilia
- Lecture 3. What to Observe
- Lecture 4. Participant Observation
- Lecture 5. Degrees of Participation
- Lecture 6. Ethnographic Records
- Lecture 7. Conclusion: Types of Ethnographic Records
Week 6
- Lecture 1. Introduction
- Lecture 2. Forms of Interviews
- (ALM) LxT 1. Oral History and Ethnography
- Lecture 3. Characteristics of Interviews
- Lecture 4. Listening and Speaking
- Lecture 5. Reflexivity in Interviewing
- Lecture 6. Designing the Interview
- Lecture 7. Designing the Core Discussion I
- Lecture 8. Designing the Core Discussion II
- Lecture 9. Doing the Interview I
- Lecture 10. Doing the Interview II
- Lecture 11. Conclusion
Week 7
- Lecture 1. Introduction
- Lecture 2. Researching THE Visual I
- Lecture 3. Researching THE Visual II
- Lecture 4. Researching WITH the Visual
- Lecture 5. Choosing the Visual Medium
- Lecture 6. Representation through Visuals
- (ALM) LxT 1. Part I: Presentation by Anjali Monteiro and KP Jayasankar
- Lecture 7. Reflexivity in Visual Ethnography I
- Lecture 8. Reflexivity in Visual Ethnography II
- Lecture 9. Conclusion
Week 8
- Lecture 1. Introduction
- Lecture 2. Designing Information for HIV-AIDS Affected Persons Prof. Anirudha Joshi
- Lecture 3. A New Approach to Urban Housing Prof. Uday Athavankar
- Lecture 4. Cognitive Ethnography Prof. Sahana Murthy
- Lecture 5. Participative Design for Language Learning Prof. Alka Hingorani
- Lecture 6. Conclusion
Syllabus and materials
At NPTEL, as the course publishes them.
Credits and licence
- Institution
- IIT Bombay
- Department
- Engineering Design
- Teacher
- Prof. Nina Sabnani
- Level
- Undergraduate
- Language
- English
- Subjects
- Engineering, Art, architecture and design
- Source
- NPTEL
- Licence
- CC BY-NC-SA, as NPTEL states it. Non-commercial use only. NPTEL's terms
- Attribution
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