Ethnographic participation research

Teaching research project in the Master's program in Education and Social Work

In two three-semester research seminars, students used participant observation to investigate how participation is produced. The first seminar analyzed how access to social practices of civic engagement is created. It became clear how very specific social practices enable or hinder "new" access.
In the second seminar, those participation practices that remain hidden from the participants' explicit explanations will be explored.

Publications

Munsch Chantal; Müller, Falko (2021): Beyond intention. Thinking ambivalences, disturbances and inequality together with participation. In: Falko Müller & Chantal Munsch (eds.): Beyond intention. Ethnographic insights into practices of participation. Weinheim/Basel: Beltz/Juventa. S. 10-36.
Munsch Chantal; Müller, Falko (2021): Discovering participation in its contexts. Questioning directions for ethnographic observations. In: Falko Müller & Chantal Munsch (eds.): Beyond intention. Ethnographic insights into practices of participation. Weinheim/Basel: Beltz/Juventa. S. 37-50.
Munsch, Chantal (2021): Nobody says anything. How the practice of the friendly question hides barriers to participation. In: Falko Müller & Chantal Munsch (eds.): Beyond the intention. Ethnographic insights into practices of participation. Weinheim/Basel: Beltz/Juventa. S. 200-211.
Munsch, Chantal; Kröckel, Sophie; Linke, Astrid; Marinello, Silvia; Reinhardt, Jennifer; Sasserath, Katrin; Yilmaz-Pfeifer, Yeliz (2016): Successful and unsuccessful access processes to civic engagement - an ethnographic attempt to link the analysis of social practices and affects. In: Stephan Lessenich (ed.): Closed Societies. Proceedings of the 38th Congress of the German Sociological Association in Bamberg 2016. http://publikationen.soziologie.de/index.php/kongressband_2016

Lectures

"Access processes to civic engagement - an ethnographic perspective", 38th DGS Congress, Bamberg, 30.09.2016
"Jenseits der Intention - praxeologische Perspektiven auf Partizipation", annual conference of the DGfE - Kommission Sozialpädagogik "Teilhabe durch*in*trotz Sozialpädagogik", Vechta, 19.05.2017