This course provides students with the required methodological and practical tools to do fieldwork research in Latin America. Research techniques such as observation, interviewing and life sotry are taught. Attention will also be given to practical problems that students might face in the field. Each student will formulate a research proposal, wich final version should be delivered by the end of the course.
Rooster
Onderwijsvorm
Workgroup activities
Leerdoelen
Organising and implementing an academic research project in a different socio-cultural setting; learning how to use research methods and how to interpret results; reporting academic research.
Literatuur
Bourdieau, P y P. Wacquant (1992). An invitation to Reflexive Sociology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Galindo Cáceres, Jesús (1998). Etnografía: el oficio de la mirada y el sentido en Jesús Galindo Cáceres (comp.), Técnicas de investigación en sociedad, cultura y comunicación. México: Pearson ddison Wesley, pp. 347-383.
Thompson, Paul (1978). The voice of the past. Oral history. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Toetsing
Participation in workgroups; written paper (research proposal).
Informatie
Dr. J.C.G. Aguiar, phone +31 (0)71 527 2189, e-mail: j.c.g.aguiar@let.leidenuniv.nl
Blackboard/webpagina
Information published through Blackboard aims to facilitate the writing process of the research proposal.
Overzicht
This course consists of workgroups in which techniques for writing a research proposal and for doing fieldwork in Latin America are taught.