Performing Research : Tensions, tiumphs and trade-offs with Ethnodrama

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ISBN: 9781858564463 | 1858564468
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Copyright: 9/30/2010

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Ethnographic performance has been enthusiastically embraced by qualitative researchers as a pungent way to bring a research report to life - literally - especially in the fields of education, health and community studies, where it is increasingly being employed in research and post-graduate training.

Acknowledgements	p. x
Contributors	p. xiii
Preface	p. xvii

The Human Contexts	p. 1
Who performs research and why?	p. 1
Purposes	p. 5
Respondents and witnesses	p. 12
The points of view and requirements of the audience	p. 14
But how much fun is it?	p. 15
Charting the Territory	p. 19
Ethnodrama and its close relations	p. 19
The transience of labels	p. 19
Terms and their implications for practice	p. 21
The family tree	p. 23
Responsibilities	p. 27
Social responsibilityà and social action	p. 29
Ethics	p. 32
Ownership and Power	p. 39
Notions of authority, faithfulness and adaptation	p. 39
Lack of participant homogeneity	p. 40
Position and the selection of dialogue	p. 44
Verbatim and characters	p. 45
Beyond verbatim	p. 47
Adaptation theory	p. 48
Performance as reality or fiction	p. 50
The gatekeepers and power	p. 51
Other influences of power	p. 55
Relationships between researcher and participant	p. 55
Researcher's voice	p. 56
Aesthetic and other Tensions	p. 59
The elements of aesthetic form: dialogue and fiction	p. 61
Elements of aesthetic form: mise-en-scène	p. 62
Fictionalisation and authenticity	p. 64
Other dramatic elements	p. 64
Stylisation	p. 65
Reader's Theatre	p. 66
Dramatic structure	p. 69
Characters and acting	p. 71
The commentator or 'researcher'	p. 75
The paradox of ethnodrama	p. 77
Conclusion	p. 79

Alice Hoy is not a Building - Women in Academia	p. 81
Introduction	p. 81
Questions and themes	p. 83
The performance text	p. 84
Generating data	p. 86
Deep space	p. 86
Performance-based data analysis	p. 87
Workshop 1: Experimenting with data analysis	p. 88
The performance text	p. 91
Performing the play: Part One	p. 92
As researchers we are also performing	p. 93
Performing the play: Part Two	p. 96
Aesthetic decisions	p. 97
Performing the play: Part Three	p. 98
Performing the play: Part Four	p. 99
Performing the play: Part Five	p. 100
Representing the researchers in performance	p. 101
Performing the play: Part Six	p. 102
The audience	p. 102
Encounters in Child Care	p. 105
Reducing complexity	p. 109
Creation of characters	p. 110
Discussion	p. 114
A Day in December	p. 123
Introduction	p. 123
The inciting event	p. 124
The research project	p. 125
Prior learning and the lure of the three act structure	p. 127
Remembering Glenbrook - the structure	p. 128
Remembering Glenbrook - the content	p. 130
The Signals-the problematic chapter three	p. 132
Finding the final turning point	p. 134
A confrontation	p. 135
The NIDA Short Course Program	p. 137
The development of a rehearsal draft: Remembering a Day in December	p. 138
A discovery	p. 141
Verbatim theatre and the playwright's challenge	p. 141
Conclusion-learning from the experience	p. 143
Scrap Pickers and other Local Hong Kong Projects	p. 145
Fast tracking ethnodrama: A two-week assignment in Hong Kong
Introducing the case study	p. 145
Section 1: The projects	p. 146
The context of choice	p. 147
Section 2: The Scrap Pickers project	p. 155
A) Aims - personal and social	p. 155
B) The project plan	p. 156
Pre-performance	p. 156
Prologue	p. 157
Scene 1	p. 157
Scene 2	p. 157
Scene 3	p. 157
Scene 4	p. 158
Scene 5	p. 158
Scene 6	p. 158
Scene 7	p. 158
Epilogue	p. 159
Post-performance	p. 159
C) Participants' critical reflections	p. 159
Kate	p. 160
Will	p. 164
The relationship between education and research	p. 164
The relationship between drama and research	p. 165
The relationship between drama and educational purpose	p. 166
Performing Histories: Voices of Black Rural Community	p. 169
From oral history to ethnodrama: the journey of the spoken word
Introduction	p. 169
Stories and marginalised communities	p. 170
The context of the initial research data and the project leaders	p. 172
Authenticity and risks of reductionism	p. 174
Artistic choices and tensions	p. 176
Script development	p. 178
Stakeholder interests	p. 182
Closing reflections	p. 183
Investigating Masculinities in School	p. 187
It's a play for us: ethnographic performance as part of an educational ethnography
Back story	p. 187
Setting the scene	p. 188
Dramatis personae	p. 188
The production team - a collaborative approach	p. 189
Ethical considerations	p. 190
Prologue to the drama	p. 191
A script is not the only way to tell a story	p. 193
Limitations of the data	p. 193
Sharing the emerging text - entering into the dialogic	p. 194
A matter of style and form	p. 198
Negotiating the performance	p. 199
The usefulness of ethnographic performance in a school setting	p. 201
References	p. 203
Index	p. 209
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