'We Need Both': Combining Video-Cued Multivocal Ethnographic Methods and Traditional Fieldwork in Samoan Head Start Policy Research

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Preschool Teachers; Ethnography; Video Technology; Foreign Countries; Teaching Methods; Curriculum Development; Cross Cultural Studies; Preschool Curriculum; Disadvantaged Youth; Teacher Attitudes; Cues; Federal Government

Samoa; United States

10.1111/aeq.12298

0161-7761

This article describes how, in our research with Head Start teachers in American Samoa, we combined video-cued multivocal ethnographic method (VCE) with traditional ethnographic approaches to understand our interlocutors' perspectives on curriculum and pedagogy, and the contrast between them and mainland US teachers using the same federally endorsed curriculum. We provide illustrative examples of how the inclusion of VCE allowed for meaningful dialogue among informants and researchers, revealing Samoan teachers' cultural sustainable approaches to curriculum.

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2019

EJ1223882