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Ethnographic research is interpretive research in a double sense. One role of ethnographers is to understand the participants’ perspectives: How do they interpret the world? At the same time, ethnographers themselves do interpretive work. These essays address both issues.
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Gobbo, F., Anderson-Levitt, K. (2015). Introduction. In: Smeyers, P., Bridges, D., Burbules, N., Griffiths, M. (eds) International Handbook of Interpretation in Educational Research. Springer International Handbooks of Education. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9282-0_23
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