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Analyzing the data
Published in Paul M.W. Hackett, Christopher M. Hayre, Handbook of Ethnography in Healthcare Research, 2020
In critical psychology, the analysis of social practice is called a “conditions-, meanings-, and reasonings analysis”. It suggests how an understanding of people’s situations can be obtained by analyzing the connections between life conditions, their meaning for the individual, and the individual’s reasons for action grounded hereon. Thus, the purpose of the analysis is to gain insight in connections, not in detached “factors” or “variables”.
A social–cultural analysis of the individual education plan practice in special education schools in China
Published in International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2020
Wangqian Fu, Sha Lu, Fei Xiao, Mian Wang
Since the 21st century, the notion of IEP has become one of the most influential in special education in China which many people consider to be the core and makes special education special (Deng and Pan 2003; Xiao 2005a). In order to describe the practice of IEP in China and figure out what are the contextual factors forming it, we interviewed administrators and special education teachers in three special schools. According to sociocultural theory, social practice can be understood as a process in which individuals are continually negotiating ways of participating in collective activities (Nicolini et al.2003). Practices in a specific situation will have strong local determinants also, which can include policies and the philosophy and disposition of a student’s individualized educational program team (Jackson et al.2008). Thus, we examined the perceptions of teachers and the context factors of IEPs.
Exploring neoliberalism in care for people with intellectual disabilities: A practice theory approach
Published in Journal of Occupational Science, 2019
To understand the social and why people are doing what they are doing, practice theorists use social practices as an analytical concept. They understand social life as a “practice-arrangement mesh” (Schatzki, 2002, p. 150), which shape each other. The person who does the occupation is just one part of the arrangement. Arrangements are a set of material entities and can be divided into human beings, artifacts, organisms, and natural objects (Schatzki, 2010). Not individuals, social structures nor infrastructures are at the center of knowledge production, but the practices themselves (Schäfer, 2013). Individuals, society and structures are interwoven with these practices, and consequently can be analyzed via a focus on the practices. Practices are dependent on the specific context—the site—in which they happen. Consequently, practices must be analyzed in consideration of the specific surrounding and context (Schmidt, 2012).