Title: Task 4: Ethnographic fieldnotes
Course: EDPS0009: Researching Education and Society: Qualitative Methods 2020/2021 > Section: 4. Observations

Choose a space or place that you can currently access that is frequented by a number of people (library, café, gym, public spaces). Spend 20-30 minutes observing the place and people’s behaviour there. Take notes while you are there, and type these up on the same day or as soon as possible thereafter so that someone else can understand what is happening. Make sure to cover the points below:

- Describe the physical location
- Describe people’s behaviour
- Break down common interpretations/understandings through thick description “e.g. not “buys a coffee” – “exchanges round metal disks and receives container of hot liquid in return”

You need to submit your ethnographical fieldnotes to this forum by Friday 30^th October 12 noon UK time.