SSSP 2025 Annual Meeting

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Date: Saturday, August 9

Time: 8:30 AM - 10:10 AM

Session 035: CRITICAL DIALOGUE: Teaching Social Problems through Institutional Ethnography
Room: Chicago Room

Sponsors: Institutional Ethnography
Teaching Social Problems

Organizers: Elizabeth L. Brule, Queen's University
Morena Tartari, Northumbria University

Presider/Discussant: Laura Parson, North Dakota State University

Description: 

This session focuses on using Institutional Ethnography (IE) to explore social problems and social change with academic and non-academic audiences. Institutional Ethnographers who are teaching/imparting what they have learned from their IE research to academic and non-academic audiences are invited to submit their contributions to this session.
Presentations can focus on how to guide, through IE, academic and non-academic audience in understanding how everyday experiences are shaped by institutional and social forces, in discussing the impact of IE research, and in highlighting the potential of IE to uncover hidden power dynamics, policies, and organizational practices. This aim is to discuss how to help these audiences and communities critically examine institutions while engaging with the possibilities of impact that IE offers.

Papers:

“‘I Swear I Was Playing it Right in Practice’: Student Health and the Discourse of ‘Preparation’ in Post-secondary Music Education,” Jeffrey Sabo and Christine Guptill, University of Ottawa

“A Comprehensive Literature Review of an Institutional Ethnography of Graduate Student Enrollment and Retention,” Doriane E. Paso, Fredricka R. Saunders, Isaac Mensah, Laura Parson, Emily C. Schubert, Abby Griffin and Francisca Nyarko, North Dakota State University

“Navigating Academia and Motherhood: An Institutional Ethnography of International Graduate Student Mothers,” Fredricka R. Saunders, North Dakota State University

“Queering Institutional Ethnography: Designing a Conceptual Framework for Equity,” Kelley A. Larson, North Dakota State University

“Teaching Institutional Ethnography through Autoethnography,” Laura Parson, North Dakota State University