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application of EM/CA methodologies and the engagement of researchers from beyond
 
themoretraditional fields of sociology and linguistics. EM/CA methodologies are being
 
used to both understand the orderliness of social interaction and also to address specific
 
institutional issues, in this instance in higher education settings. This paper explores the
 
challenges inherent in using these approaches to researching institutional relationships,
 
particularly when a primary aim of the research is to inform practitioners of practices
 
used within institutional settings. We argue the need to draw on a variety of analytical
 
tools to understand in situ practices alongside other lenses to translate these un-
 
derstandings of institutional practice to practitioners. Drawing on data from a study of
 
audio-recorded conversations between supervisory and preservice teachers during the
 
school-based professional experience component of initial teacher education, our anal-
 
ysis illustrates how the tools of conversation analysis and membership categorization
 
analysis reveal the intricacies of how supervising and preservice teachers negotiate is-
 
sues of asymmetry and position themselves through references to specific institutional
 
documents. We then use the work of Dorothy Smith to support the translatability of
 
descriptive findings to support interventions in the field. We use this example to
 
demonstrate the affordances of using various analytic tools in complementary ways to
 
overcome methodological challenges and provide new insights into institutional re-
 
lationships and inform future practice.
 
 
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Harris-etal2019
BibType ARTICLE
Key Harris-etal2019
Author(s) Jess Harris, Maryanne Theobald, Jayne Keogh
Title Combining analytical tools to inform practice in school-based professional experience
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Tag(s) EMCA, Qualitative research methodologies, Conversation analysis, Membership categorisation analysis, Dorothy smith, School-based professional experience, Education
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Year 2019
Language English
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Journal Journal of Pragmatics
Volume 143
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Pages 255–266
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DOI 10.1016/j.pragma.2018.04.002
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Abstract

While always an interdisciplinary endeavour, rapid growth in the fields of Ethnomethodology (hereafter EM) and Conversation Analysis (hereafter CA) has led to the broader application of EM/CA methodologies and the engagement of researchers from beyond the more traditional fields of sociology and linguistics. EM/CA methodologies are being used to both understand the orderliness of social interaction and also to address specific institutional issues, in this instance in higher education settings. This paper explores the challenges inherent in using these approaches to researching institutional relationships, particularly when a primary aim of the research is to inform practitioners of practices used within institutional settings. We argue the need to draw on a variety of analytical tools to understand in situ practices alongside other lenses to translate these understandings of institutional practice to practitioners. Drawing on data from a study of audio-recorded conversations between supervisory and preservice teachers during the school-based professional experience component of initial teacher education, our analysis illustrates how the tools of conversation analysis and membership categorization analysis reveal the intricacies of how supervising and preservice teachers negotiate issues of asymmetry and position themselves through references to specific institutional documents. We then use the work of Dorothy Smith to support the translatability of descriptive findings to support interventions in the field. We use this example to demonstrate the affordances of using various analytic tools in complementary ways to overcome methodological challenges and provide new insights into institutional relationships and inform future practice.

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