An ethnographic approach to researching students’ experiences of silence in university classes

Resumen

This paper gives an account of a collaborative research project conducted in the context of the class Arts-Based Research, which is part of the core curriculum of the Fine Arts degree at the University of Barcelona. The research takes form when students decide to learn to investigate... by doing research together. The group decides to focus their investigation on examining how they give meaning to the experiences of silence in university classes. This question opens a process of inquiry where stories, pictures, readings and discussions in the virtual campus converge, generating a set of evidences that the authors research ethnographically, exploring not only the meaning of question that drives the research, but the ways in which the process of inquiry was narrated.