Nov 17 2008
Ethnography of Manchester MA experience to date
Each year, onsite, participants on the onsite Manchester MA TESOL and MA EdTech & TESOL programmes, we run an intercultural simulation intended to make them reflect on the ‘culture’ of the programme and how they are adjusting to this new academic culture. As a follow-up activity, we ask them to undertake an ethnography of the programme as a means of surfacing the characteristics (values and behaviours) of the programme. Here is the rubric for this task:
Based on your experience of the intercultural simulation we did in the Academic Forum session, as well as your subsequent reflections on your experience of ‘becoming’ a participant on the onsite MA course, please add some comments about: 1) what has happened, 2) how you have felt, 3) getting used to the rules (marked or unmarked) associated with being a student on the course, or 4) anything else that fits this broad remit.
We invite participants to add their micro-ethnographic accounts here.