Based on the teaching activities of participatory communication in the First Culture and Art Festival for and by Migrant Workers from October 2008 to June 2009, this paper aims to analysis the reason, goal, process and result of the ethnography as a teaching method, and explores the adoption of the theory and the method from the critical pedagogy. In addition, the paper also focuses on the challenge and the respond of using ethnography as a teaching method. The results of this study indicates that the major advantage of using ethnography as a teaching method including encouragement of students' discussion on thinking patterns and research method, especially from the perspective of an insider to understand the migrant workers' action as well as the motivation behind the behaviors. Furthermore, based on the results and discussion, the applicability of the theory hopefully will be assessed as well.

Critical pedagogy Insider's perspective Ethnography teaching

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