The Poetics and Pleasures of Video Ethnography of Education

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The central argument of this chapter is that in thinking about the uses of video in educational research, we should break free of educational videos’ roots in instructional films and observational analysis, and add to the goals of documenting and informing the goals of provoking self-reflection, challenging assumptions, creating things of beauty, entertaining, and giving pleasure. When we enter into video making with this expanded set of goals in mind, we end up with very different sorts of videos than if we begin with only the first set. And these more aesthetically pleasing, entertaining, compelling videos are not just pleasing and entertaining-they also make for more effective social science.

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Video Research in the Learning Sciences

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