Negotiating Power Relations and Ethnicity in a Sociolinguistic Ethnography in Madrid

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12762829
AutoresAdriana Patiño-Santos (0000-0003-1950-3954, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, autor correspondente)
Ano2011
Volume10
Fascículo3
Páginas145-163
Data de publicação2011-07-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Language Identity & Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1532-7701 • E-ISSN: 1534-8458
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/15348458.2011.585305
OpenAlexW1981466386
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas5
Referências citadas22

One of the major dilemmas when practising critical sociolinguistic ethnography within the field of education is the ethnographer's degree of implication within the studied site (Goldstein, 2003 Goldstein, T. 2003. Teaching and learning in a multilingual school: Choices, risks and dilemmas, Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. [Crossref] , [Google Scholar]; Martín Rojo, 2003 Martín Rojo, L. 2003. “Escuela y diversidad lingüística”. In ¿Asimilar o integrar? Dilemas ante el multilingüismo en las aulas, Edited by: Martín Rojo, L. 19–68. Madrid, Spain: CIDE. [Google Scholar]; Unamuno, 2004 Unamuno, V. 2004. Dilemas metodológicos, preguntas de investigación [Methodological dilemmas, research questions]. Estudios de Sociolingüística, 5(2): 219–230. [Sociolinguistic Studies] [Google Scholar]). How far should the researcher intervene within the daily practices he/she is observing? This exercise of methodological reflexivity implies, amongst other things, bringing to the fore the ways ethnographers negotiate their positions and identities when carrying out the fieldwork, a contingent complex process influenced by multiple factors that demands a continual renegotiation of such identities and positions. The main purpose of this article is to reflect upon the major dilemmas I faced, as a female researcher of Latin American origin, in negotiating power relations within conflictive classrooms in a high school located in the centre of Madrid. The conditions under which relations are negotiated give rise to consequences for the entire research (i.e., data collection and analysis, amongst other things)

Ethnic group · Ethnography · Linguistics · Negotiation · Power (physics · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · Language, Discourse, Communication Strategies · Linguistic Variation and Morphology · Multilingual Education and Policy · Philosophy