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Ethnography in Higher Education: An Introduction

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Ethnographic research in higher education is gaining momentum. In the last 10 years, we saw a great increase in publications, and more and more researchers endorse ethnography because of its distinctive qualities and its productivity for research in higher education: Ethnography is commended for its unique approach to social practices through continuous and immediate experience in field work, and its unfragmented methodical attention to situations, interactions, and experiences. This attention is realised through an field-specific opportunism that is unique to the educational ethnography, a methodology that enables the selection of conclusive data subsequent to an initially unstructured data collection.

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  2. Department of Education, University of Graz, Graz, Austria

    Angela Pilch Ortega

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Wieser, C., Pilch Ortega, A. (2020). Ethnography in Higher Education: An Introduction. In: Wieser, C., Pilch Ortega, A. (eds) Ethnography in Higher Education. Doing Higher Education. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-30381-5_1

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