Conducting online ethnography during COVID-19: Methodological reflections from a kindergarten classroom

Abstract

In this reflection, I contextualize my own experiences conducting educational ethnography in a synchronous online kindergarten classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic. I highlight how conducting research in online classrooms transforms ethnographic research methodologies and concepts such as the field site. I offer four suggestions, derived from my experiences and guided by an un-sited approach to this hybrid online field site, to conceptualize a more fluid approach for studying online schooling in general.