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Welcome to FieldWorking Online, a virtual community for researchers, students, teachers, writers, readers, and archivists. Here we’re interested in preserving and recording the local traditions and histories of the places we live – and we also want to share our discoveries with others doing the same thing. Here, with our various ongoing projects, we engage in what folklorists call “the conservation of culture.”

Our work is akin to ethnographic fieldwork: the detailed study of behaviors, traditions, language, arts, and practical histories that allows us to observe, read about, record, document and interpret the unique ways people live their daily lives. More than education, this activity gives us revelations. As anthropologist will tell you, studying another helps researchers better understand themselves.
           
We encourage you to tour our metaphorical community in FieldWorking Online in hopes you will share in our researching enthusiasm and contribute to what we hope will become its heritage: “the conservation of culture.”

 

Visit fieldworking.com as it’s a small town. Poke around. Be a tourist, but also take up residence anywhere, anytime by submitting to us your own ideas and projects.

At the Town Square, you can hang around, discover more about us and why we settled this community, and exchange ideas with other researchers in the Diner, Kiosk, or the Community Bulletin Board. Send us your projects and ideas through the Post Office. Consult the Neighborhood Map to locate real, ongoing research projects that will interest you.

At the Schoolhouse, discover ways to integrate Fieldworking concepts into your school curriculum, regardless of the grades or the subjects you teach. We encourage professional borrowing. We have standards, but no tests. Here you’ll find ways to conduct community-based research with:
field exercises
course syllabi and reading lists
research portfolios from finished projects
classroom materials and related websites  

The Library will direct you to resources for conducting fieldwork. In it, you’ll find:
Field URLs:  links to online resources
FieldWords:  a glossary of ethnographic terms
FieldReadings:  a bibliography of useful print references
Field Arts:  poems, sculptures, prints and drawings
FieldContributions:  a place to add your favorite resources

Our Hall of Fame is part historical society, part museum.  It is our archive of model projects that we’ve displayed for you – and we encourage you to send us your projects, too.

At the Bank you can find appropriate funding sources, including grants, to support the work you do.

Our Police Station holds ethics statements across academic disciplines and will link you to sample “Human Subjects” information.

At the Movie Theater, we offer lists of audio and video documentaries that represent the best of thorough, appropriate fieldwork presented in a multimedia form.

 

 

     

 

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