Research Approach
This study brings together methods borrowed from educational ethnography, critical policy analysis, and educational action research. This study works from the proposition that the school is a key site of reform (Hayes et al. 2017), and for translation and enactment of policy.
The study will examine schools as sites for building culturally responsive approaches to curriculum and pedagogy. The project will be researching five schools using ethnographic methods, such as interviews, classroom observations, meeting observations, analysis of classroom artefacts, and various texts, including policies. This study will strategically research five well-chosen cases that will provide explanatory power capable of informing international knowledge production, policy and practice.
The study will investigate four schools and hence is designed as a multi-sited school ethnography (Smyth,2003). This has benefits for theory building, as multi-sited studies enable a continual checking out, critiquing and revising of provisional findings from multiple sites.
The research will have two inter-connected dimensions: Firstly, a two year, action research phase. Second, a whole of school professional learning phase that builds from the action research.
The study will examine schools as sites for building culturally responsive approaches to curriculum and pedagogy. The project will be researching five schools using ethnographic methods, such as interviews, classroom observations, meeting observations, analysis of classroom artefacts, and various texts, including policies. This study will strategically research five well-chosen cases that will provide explanatory power capable of informing international knowledge production, policy and practice.
The study will investigate four schools and hence is designed as a multi-sited school ethnography (Smyth,2003). This has benefits for theory building, as multi-sited studies enable a continual checking out, critiquing and revising of provisional findings from multiple sites.
The research will have two inter-connected dimensions: Firstly, a two year, action research phase. Second, a whole of school professional learning phase that builds from the action research.