{"id":1344,"date":"2015-08-11T09:32:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T09:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ethnographicencounters\/?page_id=1344"},"modified":"2015-11-11T14:48:16","modified_gmt":"2015-11-11T14:48:16","slug":"about-the-ethnographic-encounters-project","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ethnographicencounters\/about-the-ethnographic-encounters-project\/","title":{"rendered":"About the Ethnographic Encounters Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"padding: 12px;background-color: #979e45;line-height: 1.4;width: 29%;text-align: center;float: left;margin: 4px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ethnographicencounters\/who-we-are\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">People<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px;background-color: #979e45;line-height: 1.4;width: 29%;text-align: center;float: left;margin: 4px\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ethnographicencounters\/history-and-trajectory\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">History and Trajectory<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px;background-color: #979e45;line-height: 1.4;width: 29%;text-align: center;float: left;margin: 4px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ethnographicencounters\/1463-2\/\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ffffff\">Ethnography and the YA<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8220;Ethnography provides the means, and the mind-set, to develop those dimensions of intercultural interaction which have\u00a0hitherto been ignored&#8230;which are crucial to being a successful intercultural speaker, not merely an unsuccessful imitator\u00a0of a native speaker&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">&#8211; Language Learners as Ethnographers, p240.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">The Ethnographic Encounters project, which ran from February 2014-September 2015, has developed materials and support for students carrying out ethnographic research during their Residence Abroad, encouraging reflective intercultural learning and developing research skills. It was\u00a0funded by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.international.heacademy.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Higher Education Academy<\/a> and is based at the University of Southampton.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Find out more about what was achieved during the project <a href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/ethnographicencounters\/2015\/08\/04\/what-is-the-ethnographic-encounters-project\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h3 style=\"text-align: justify\">Why Ethnography?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Through the ethnographic project, <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00\">students gain experience of designing, managing and ultimately disseminating their own research project and findings<\/span><\/strong>, both to their own fellow students and to wider communities.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Ethnography facilitates <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00\">the development of intercultural knowledge<\/span><\/strong>, which is an integral part of the year abroad and of language learning.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">Ethnography requires\u00a0students to <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00\">engage<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0with their host societies.<\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\">The reflexivity involved in ethnographic research allows students to <strong><span style=\"color: #99cc00\">transform their cultural encounters<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0into meaningful learning experiences.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People History and Trajectory Ethnography and the YA &nbsp; &#8220;Ethnography provides the means, and the mind-set, to develop those dimensions of intercultural interaction which have\u00a0hitherto been ignored&#8230;which are crucial to being a successful intercultural speaker, not merely an unsuccessful imitator\u00a0of a native speaker&#8221; &#8211; Language Learners as Ethnographers, p240. 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