An Ethnographic Study of Education: Employing a researcher's mastery in management while observing and working within a French distance learning institution

Olivier Marty (1) , Ray J Amirault (2)

1 CIRNEF - Centre interdisciplinaire de recherche normand en éducation et formation
2 Illinois State University

Order of Today’s Presentation
• Presentation of the fieldwork: distance education in France
• Conditions of the inquiry
• Ethnographical field data
• On commodification
• About monetization
• Controversies about the value(s) of education
• Results
• The Distance Analysis model
• Management sciences as an “indigenous language”
• Conclusion: tips for future research.

Mots clés: Anthropology of education; Ethnography of organizations; Distance learning

Domaines: Histoire, Philosophie et Sociologie des sciences; Education; Anthropologie sociale et ethnologie; Sociologie

Olivier Marty, Ray J Amirault. An Ethnographic Study of Education: Employing a researcher's mastery in management while observing and working within a French distance learning institution. Oxford Ethnography and Education Conference (OEEC), Sep 2019, Oxford, United Kingdom. ⟨halshs-02486592⟩