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Ethnography: Linking Theory and Practices



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Abid

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DOI:10.17265/2159-5313/2017.11.003

Ethnography has become popular in educational research. Its basic notion of exploring people’s shared culture has inspired educational researchers to draw on it when, for example, exploring teachers’ belief of a particular educational system of a certain country. In order to understand how this methodology is employed as one of multiple research methodologies in social sciences and education, this article will first lay out its dimensions, which includes definition and characteristics. Following this, it will present the ontological and epistemological aspect of ethnography as well as its research strategies. The article concludes with an understanding that unlike positivist, the cohort of ethnography methodology postulates the ethnographers must study the world in its natural context. The task of an ethnographer is looking for something that lies beyond himself, something that he/she has to uncover by understanding multiple realities that each individual in the world may perceive. 

ethnography, ontology, epistemology, research strategies