Network Activities

Two conferences that link to the EERA ethnography network were organized in 2024:

• The 11th Rethinking Ethnography and Education Conference: “Rethinking Critical Ethnography: Interconnections between doing ethnography and transformation in educational contexts”, organised by network convenors Begoña Vigo and Carl Bagley, took place at the University of Zaragoza, Spain, from 6-7 June 2024.
• The 8th International Ethnography Conference: “Re-Writing (against) Culture: Ethnographic writing in educational research: practices, approaches, innovations and positionings”, co-organised by link convenor Gisela Unterweger and Anja Sieber, took place at the University of Education Zürich, Switzerland, from 27-29 June 2024.

The network holds close ties to the journal Ethnography and Education. All participants who presented their research in the ethnography network are warmly invited to submit a full paper of their presentation to the journal. Further publications include:

• An edited volume with contributions from the 7th International Conference on Educational Ethnography that took place in 2022 at Flensburg University, Germany: Budde, J., Wischmann, A., Meier, M., & Rissler, G. (2024). Novelty, Innovation and Transformation in Educational Ethnographic Research—European Perspectives. London: Routledge.
• A special issue with contributions from the 10th Rethinking Educational Ethnography Conference that took place in 2023 at Freiburg University, Germany, will be published within our journal Ethnography and Education, in 2025. The special issue sets its focus on “Ethnography and Emotions”.

ECER Network 19 provides a space for all researchers interested in educational ethnography, at all career stages.

To provide further opportunities for interaction, the network’s convenor group is organising a new series of online events: Ethnography zoom sessions.

Ethnography zoom sessions aim at facilitating dialogue, particularly with respect to methodological developments and innovation, ethnographic research ethics, and new ethnographic insights into different fields of education. In doing so, the ethnography zoom sessions enable exchange across Europe in between educational ethnography conferences and foster ongoing dialogue on ethnographic methods and practice. Our zoom sessions create a space for dialogue on ethnographic methods and practice. Participating in a zoom session, you will meet an acclaimed or emerging educational ethnographer presenting their current work. You will also have an opportunity to discuss with fellow ethnographers after the presentation, as well as get into dialogue with the presenter. Sessions are curated and chaired by a convenor of the ethnography network. We warmly invite you to get in touch with us with ideas for research that should be featured: Gisela Unterweger (gisela.unterweger(at)phzh.ch) and Clemens Wieser (wie(at)edu.au.dk)