Doing long-term fieldwork since 1981 involving compulsory, upper-secondary and higher education, I will elaborate what “being out there” means in relation to the observed field, actors and innovative projects. Firstly, examples will be elaborated in relation to shifting period of times, where I had the teacher team, the student group and the big educational group in shifting focus (Borgnakke 2018). The shifting parties in focus demands quite different positions of me, the fieldworker, though I need to be the same person referring to the same research project. Secondly, examples will be related to full-scale educational projects: IT-upper-secondary schools and online learning (Nursing education). Here the examples and the role of the fieldworker will be closely related to organizational learning and a series of meetings with the teacher team, leaders etc. (Borgnakke 2015).

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