A Selected Bibliography of Writing on Performed Ethnography and Research-Informed Theatre by Tara Goldstein
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Abstract
Performed ethnography which is also known as performance ethnography and ethnodrama, involves turning the findings of ethnographic research into a play script that can be read aloud by a group of participants or performed before audiences.As a researcher who has been trained as an educational ethnographer within anthropological traditions, I locate performed ethnography within the literary turn of American anthropology in the mid-1980s-early 1990s as an example of Beharian anthropology.It can also be seen as an example of postmodern/postfoundational qualitative research within the literature of contemporary qualitative research methods.My own work with performed ethnography began in the late 1990s with an ethnographic play I wrote from my ethnographic research project on multilingualism and schooling called Hong Kong, Canada "performed ethnography".Two years later, I wrote a second ethnographic play script, Snakes and Ladders, from an ethnographic research project on homophobia and schooling.Readers and spectators of my performed ethnographies have included school administrators, teachers, and students, community educators and the general public.In 2004, I enrolled in a MFA playwriting program at Spalding University to develop my skills as a playwright.After completing the degree in 2006, I began to write other kinds of research-informed play scripts working with research that did not come from own ethnographic projects and/or did not use ethnographic research methods.For example, my play Lost Daughter is based on interviews and written documentation undertaken by other social science researchers and my play Zero Tolerance is a dramatic adaptation of an investigative report on school safety.I use the term research-informed theatre to describe these projects, which can still be read aloud or performed, and are still usually followed up by discussion.RESEARCH-INFORMED PLAY SCRIPTS (Some scripts available on www.gaileyroad.comand on T-Space: https://tspace.library.utoronto.ca)Goldstein, T. (2012) Ana's Shadow (transnational adoption in a same-sex/queer family) Goldstein, T. (2010) Speaking is a Political Act (an adaptation of an academic essay) Goldstein, T. (2010) Harriet's House (transnational adoption in a same-sex/queer family) Goldstein, T. (2008).Zero Tolerance (an adaptation of a report on school safety) Goldstein, T. (2008).Lost Daughter (Canadian anti-Semitism in the 1930s) Goldstein, T. (2007).Pound Predators (women, fat bodies and weight loss) Goldstein, T. (2004) Alliance (30-minute adaptation of Snakes and Ladders) Goldstein, T. (2004) The Card (10-minute adaptation of Snakes and Ladders) Goldstein, T. (2004/2010) Snakes and Ladders (homophobia and activism at school) Goldstein, T. (2003) Satellite Kids (immigration, language issues at school)
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.011 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.010 | 0.013 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.005 | 0.005 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.006 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.003 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.017 | 0.006 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".