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Ramsey, Caroline
(2007).
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13596740701559845
Abstract
This article introduces a practice-centred inquiry method called an 'ethno-experiment'. The method is built on a social constructionist understanding of practice as a social performance rather than as an individual's act. Additionally, it draws on Garfinkel's early ethnomethodological work and Marshall's self-reflective inquiry to construct a method of inquiry that centres on practice development rather than knowledge output. Having described the conceptual forbears of ethno-experiments and discussed the significant aspects of the practice, the article then examines ethno-experiments using an account of a particular series of these experiments used in work with a major engineering company. Finally, issues of quality in practice and assessment are discussed before it is argued that ethno-experiments provide three benefits to practitioner-inquirers: an enriched dialogue between theory and practice; the robust testing and evaluation of emergent practice; and the development of a scholarship of practice.
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- Item ORO ID
- 9407
- Item Type
- Journal Item
- ISSN
- 1359-6748
- Extra Information
- Special Issue: Work-based Learning and the Worker Researcher
- Academic Unit or School
- Faculty of Business and Law (FBL)
- Depositing User
- Jackie Fry