Notes on a Country School Tradition: Recitation as an Individual Strategy. Ethnographic Study.

According to this characteristic of the paper "Here I investigate ethnographically the residual form of the recitation in a modern one-teacher school in rural Nebraska."

What characteristics of ethnography does it refer to?

• Description

• Shared patterns of behavior, beliefs, and language

• Cultural theme

• Context or setting

Taking into account that "The present study was undertaken to look at the practices of some of the remaining one-teacher schools, what might be learned from them,..." & "The ethnographer ..., lives with or frequently visits the people being studied, and slowly learns the cultural ways in which the group behaves or thinks."

This refers to:

• description, themes and interpretation

• fieldwork

• culture-sharing group

• researcher reflectivity

In the paper, the ... is clearly represented when the Bughand school location and population is described in an extensive and detailed way, so the reader is figuratively placed in the setting, the reader is transported to the real scene.

In this statement there is a keyword to find which characteristic it refers to:

• scene

• Bughand school

• figuratively

• described

What characteristic of ethnography does this statement refer to: "Bighand School is located in the rolling prairie of eastern Nebraska, where corn, soybeans, and winter wheat cover the landscape during the growing season"

• cultural theme

• fieldwork

• researcher flexibility

• context or setting

The author shows his concern for the site and the people, as well as he consciously share his reflections and insights.

It can see reflected the characteristic of:

• cultural theme

• fieldwork

• researcher reflexivity

• context or setting

This paper explains how the organization of the curriculum works so that it includes twelve children of different grade levels, and explains the use of books to make sense of the information that is being presented.

This can be connected to:

• themes

• fieldwork

• description

• interpretation

Considering the following ethnography characteristic "Culture-sharing group"

After reading Swindler's (2000) and identifying the context and where the research was carried out:

The ethnographer identify a single site (a modern one-teacher school in rural Nebraska) and located a group within it (recitation group)

• True

• False