Advancing the Value of Ethnography

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The Climate Crisis as Learning Space

The Climate Crisis as Learning Space

It is becoming widely accepted that the climate crisis is a multiscale breakdown of interrelated ecological systems, caused by behavioural patterns that are unsustainable. As behaviours are largely informed by ideologies and as the latter are passed on by education, we submit that the climate...

#GoingEthno in the Indian Bureaucracy

#GoingEthno in the Indian Bureaucracy

Case Study—Based on experience of working in the Department of School Education, Government of Haryana on a Management Information System being built to reduce administrative workload on teachers and bureaucrats, this case study describes how ethnography was used to understand and address the...

Can Cheaters Prosper In Cambodia?

Can Cheaters Prosper In Cambodia?

PechaKucha Presentation This PechaKucha explores the ways in which the author navigated cheating culture, community norms, and her own biases to think through sustainable education solutions in Cambodia. Students in Cambodia's countryside are structurally disadvantaged and attempt to redress...