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Pedagogical Peep Show

The Challenges of Ethnographic Fieldwork in a Post-Socialist Context

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After completing my fieldwork in July of 2014, I was only able to open my field notebooks in December of that year. The emotional and psychological hardships I experienced during my year-long ethnographic research in the Russian Federation made the task of returning to my carefully kept narrative accounts a painful and dreadful chore. In my study, I traced connections and ruptures in how different groups in higher education responded to educational change.

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  1. Elena Aydarova
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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Arizona State University, USA

    Iveta Silova

  2. Loyola University Chicago, USA

    Noah W. Sobe

  3. School for International Training Graduate Institute, World Learning, USA

    Alla Korzh

  4. University of Toronto, Canada

    Serhiy Kovalchuk

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Aydarova, E. (2017). Pedagogical Peep Show. In: Silova, I., Sobe, N.W., Korzh, A., Kovalchuk, S. (eds) Reimagining Utopias. Bold Visions in Educational Research. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6351-011-0_5

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