Multivoiced research with children: Exploring methodological issues in children's documentation of school projects

in Kress, Tricia M.; Curry Stephenson, Malott; Porfilio, Brad J. (Eds.) Challenging Status Quo Retrenchment: New Directions in Critical Research (2013)

In educational sciences, the gathering of video diaries as a form of "student standpoint research" has become increasingly important, and critical developments in educational ethnography support ... [more ▼]

In educational sciences, the gathering of video diaries as a form of "student standpoint research" has become increasingly important, and critical developments in educational ethnography support participatory frameworks of ethnographic research projects. Legitimizing research subjects' voices through their own data collection corresponds to ethical demands of democratic, dialogical, multivoiced research. In this chapter, we combine perspectives from two different research projects in primary schools in Luxembourg to shed light on the methodological and practical underpinnings of collectively gathered audio-visual ethnographic data. Drawing on video data collected by children in schools, we consider ways in which children’s documentation of their school experiences allows for dynamic approaches to space, context, time, reality and identity. As we analyze the coherence between this kind of multiperspectival data and the demands of ethnographic research we seek to demonstrate the extents to which such methods allow for an interpretation of institutionally embedded, highly performative and individualised data authored by the children themselves. [less ▲]

Discourses of border crossers: Peruvian domestic workers in Lima as promoters of integration in Peru?

in Discourse Studies (2011), 13(2), 189-209

This article is based on narrative, autobiographic interviews with domestic workers in Peru focusing on their migration and work experiences. The interviewees evoke a border discourse that divides and ... [more ▼]

This article is based on narrative, autobiographic interviews with domestic workers in Peru focusing on their migration and work experiences. The interviewees evoke a border discourse that divides and hierarchizes Peruvian society and stigmatizes migrants, especially migrant domestic workers. As domestic service leads to intense social interactions at this ‘border’, the interviewees are constantly forced to ‘translate’ (Bhabha, 1996) when constructing their identity. The discourse-analytical bottom–up perspective focusing on membership categorization devices evaluates the performativity of the discourses of those considered as ‘oppressed’; it analyses processes of subjection and subjectification: whereas some of the interviewees internalize the discursively attributed inferior ‘Me’, others use the constructed borders as an opportunity to develop hybrid discourse strategies that cross and even deconstruct social categorizations. By focusing on the agency of ‘border-crossers’, the article aims at scientifically ‘rethinking the social with cultural difference as a constitutive feature’ (Papastergiadis, 2000: 18). [less ▲]

Encuentros con Voces Marginadas Wir sind nicht unsichtbar. Peruanische Hausangestellte in Lima erzählen

Book published by Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag (2011)

Discursos de oprimidas. Análisis de los discursos de trabajadoras del hogar peruanas en Lima

in Papeles de Poblacion (2010), 16(63), 187-218

Discourses by the oppressed: critical analysis of the discourses of Peruvian maids in Lima This article is based on 32 interviews, in the capital of Peru, Lima, with domestic workers (all women) who ... [more ▼]

Discourses by the oppressed: critical analysis of the discourses of Peruvian maids in Lima This article is based on 32 interviews, in the capital of Peru, Lima, with domestic workers (all women) who migrated from other regions of the country. It analyzes their migration experiences taking into account their current situation, social and professional, as a social problem with a semiotic aspect. It investigates the language-power relationship from a critical discourse-analytical bottom up-perspective, focusing on how domestic workers construct their identity and social reality, relating to basic ideological structures which defi ne them as ‘oppressed’, and choosing different strategies in view of them. With a combination of the methods of conversation and discourse analysis while focusing on membership categorization processes, it shows how domestic workers transform ideologies in this process, contributing to social change and thus exercising infl uence and power in discourse. [less ▲]

Book review: LAURA KAJETZKE. Wissen im Diskurs: Ein Theorienvergleich von Bourdieu und Foucault

in Discourse Studies (2009), 11(4), 505-506

Language and Literacy Learning and the Hidden Curriculum in Multilingual Learning Settings

in Intercultural Education: Paideia, Polity, Demoi (2009)

Littératies plurilingues: diversité et avenirs socio-culturels des enfants.

Article for general public (2008)