The Reflective Fieldwork

The modern relective fieldworkTakes place in both foreing and well known culturesIs about wanting to understand the strange on its own premises ( an break with your own prejudice reflectivness)Not a single method but several methodesDynamic methode and changeable methodeWishes to show patterns in peoples actions and to show paradox in what people say and doTo make visible the taken for granted and to articulate the unspoken knowledge

FFARM scientific theory about fieldworkBefore - Decitions, design and preaparingsUnder- Notes, pictures and artifactsAfter- Analyse, workshop, theory and article3 phases.Before you go into the field,- fielddesignWhile you are in the field,- fieldworkAfter you have been in the field,- fieldanalyse

Design = FFARM model + timesplanEmpiri: Fieldnotes and artifactsAnalyse

FFARM scientific theory about fieldworkA DYNAMIC MODELThe Model is like the SMTTE-model a dynamic and non chronological. This means that you can start anywhere in the model and fulfill the cornors in the order you like. This allso means that if you change one corner, some of the others might allso change. This underlines that a field design is a dynamic phenomenon witch all the time can and will change throughout the fieldwork processFFARM MODELFocusField Reflection AcessesMethodes

Fieldesign1. Focus in fieldwork, - definition of analytic object (extended problem formulation)

Goal in the studyWho which group is studiedInterrest in the studyWhich social situations and events are impotanteEarlier studies in this field , why is my study important A profession subject as reason for the studie (How can it qualify you as a cuming up pedagogue?)

Fielddesign2. FieldKonstruction of field,- Definition of field is not necessarily geographical. Culture is not geographical. It is the investigator that defines the field, it is not defined in it self in the analytic object.

Where are the interest, and where isnt it. Which cotexts are interesting for the focus,- Which are not.Which informants er interesting, Which are not.

FFARM scientific theory about fieldworkField populationscompaniesprofessionsbuildingsritualsSituationsStreetsTimesnatureWhere are the interestWhich context are interesting for the focusWhich informants er interesting

Fielddesign3. Access to the field.

Find gatekeepers, seek access.- describe the project, how many times, and for how long time will you be there, and eventually implications for the informants. Afterwards you have to negotiate..Be prepared for refusal, or big changes. Allready here is it natural to change the fielddesign.

FFARM scientific theory about fieldworkAccessGetekeepers, Who to ask? What to ask about? How to ask? Be prepared for negotiation. How can your presence be legitimated?

Fielddesign4. ReflectionReflect over your own position and role in the field, -The personal intervention can not be overcomed, - Things will never be objective . It is inportant to reflect over the intervention, as a condition for the study.Break your own prejudices. Who are you,- and what does that mean for what you see, and fore the ones you are looking at... Kategories as : sex, age, education, history of the past,- allso in your looking at the analytic object. How much experience do i have about this area. How alien or familiar am i with the field)See the powerpositions between you and the informants. What does this mean for your fieldworkBe aware of your desitions implications on the focus and argue for the choices. If not you migt make limited choices because of your anti- and sympathies. You will thereby confirm prejudices and will not be able to see the field on its own paragraphs

FFARM scientific theory about fieldwork ReflectionReflect your own position, and role in the field.Be aware of prejudices, preconceptions and the position of power. How can you under these circumstances make desitions, so that you in the field has a role, that can give you good data that breaks with your preconseptions.

Fielddesign5. Methodes in fieldwork.

Strukture. Which structure do you construct the fieldwork after. How much has to be prepared before you go into field. Describe your choices.Methodolodical thecniques: At least 3 for triangulation. Argue for your choices ,- Why do you do it this way. Participant observation, interview, questionaries, soundfiles, moviefiles and so on.Methodolodical strategies: Fieldroles: How to do the fieldwork? As observer or/and as participating. To be near and keep the distance at the same time. To participate without going native. Etical considerations.

FFARM scientific theory about fieldworkMethodParticipant observation: To be thereconversation: to come closer togetherInterview: to ask peopleQuestionarres: so seek answer in the quantityLifehistory: to draw linesBiografies: To caracterise a personDokuments: to read textsPictures: to interpres visual expressionsNetwork: tracking relationsMaterialety: to think through thingsMetodic strukture when do you do what?Which methodes do you chose?Metodic strategies. Fieldroles. closeness and distanceEtical considerationsHow to maintain data

While you are in the field: The fieldwork.To participateTo be a strangerTo take a new professional roleTo make a field report, -write observations down (as close as possible to objektive observations)Diary,- own subjektive reflectionsStart analysing . New methodes taken in use, new focus appears, new roles. Wonder over it, why does the specific changes happen.

FFARM scientific theory about fieldworkLook after repitiotions/routines/traditiones.Look after the silent. To antropologes silence is noice and a fantastic analytic object. And paradoxes if the said word and the silent knowlege and action conflicts.Wonder all the time.Write down changes in methode and fielddesign as it happens in the process. And write down why it happens.

Fieldwork is hard work, and some antropologes describes allmost the process as having finger spitz gefull or a specific talent of banacing through roles and through the subjective and the objective