should be great, but holy fracking child of christ? $280? no fracking way.
"Institutional ethnography" (IE) is an approach to empirical inquiry associated with the prominent Canadian social theorist Dorothy E. Smith. Combining theory and method, IE emphasizes connections among the sites and situations of everyday life, professional practice, and policy making. Such connections are accomplished primarily through what Smith has labeled "textually-mediated social organization"-- a form of social coordination that has been under-theorized even as it has become more and more pervasively significant.
Could something like this be used to generate documentation of interactions in a F2F class for realtime or post-hoc analysis?