Interactional Ethnography: Methodology or Epystemology?
This article presents transformation of social research practice in the change of methodological approach and traditions. The researcher faces a dilemma whether ethnography should be considered as methodology, research method or epistemology. It has been claimed that contemporary ethnography is collated with dialogues between cultures and interpreting them as a part of creative process of producing a narrative or a construct in conducting scientific research and carrying out an experiment that are not restrained by any disciplines. Thus, a retrospective insight into the background of ethnography and its characteristics intrinsic to ethnography in or of education unfolds interactional ethnography as an epistemology or a way of knowing and research philosophy that is distinguished by recursive, iterative and abductive logic, not a predefined set of steps or fieldwork methods.
