Our workshop ran on 4 November 2015, with speakers and delegates from the University of Southampton and a number of other institutions. The day went very well with valuable contributions, discussions, and suggestions for the future of ethnography, language learning and the residence abroad.
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This is the course outline for the module LANG2005: Ethnography for Language Learners, run by Dr Heidi Armbruster at the University of Southampton.
WEEK 1- Introduction: What is an ethnographic approach?
You will be introduced to some of the fundamental principles of ethnography: ethnography as cultural learning, data as always interpreted in context, the notions of ‘making strange’ and reflexivity.
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Before the students went abroad we ran the following training sessions for students. Click on the links below to find more detailed information about each session.
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Where did you go and what was your YARP topic?
I spent my year abroad in a small town called Épône in zone 5 of the Paris region, 40 km west of Paris and 50min away by train.
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This blog post is taken from Principles of Professional Responsibility by the American Anthropological Association (AAA). It covers a range of guidelines the association put together to address the particular issues related to anthropological study. The list of key guidelines is below.
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I was in Frankfurt am Main for my year abroad, where I studied at the Goethe University. My YARP was about the teaching of World War 2 in German schools and whether the topic is taught appropriately or not.
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