Educational Ethnography; Case Study of Noor School in Kenya

Ethnography is one of the methods of qualitative research that has gained popularity over the past years. This article has been used in various fields of human research because of the extensive information it provides about its study environment. The impact has been so considerable that some scholars have cited ethnography as a measure of the qualitative approach of research. This type of research is based on being in the real environment of the research and communicating very closely with the research environment. In this study, ethnography studies one of the primary schools in a Kenyan village called Uriri, and refers to the ethnography of classes, teachers and students of the school. The results of this study indicate that Kenya's elementary schools are formed based on the close relationship between teacher and student and in traditional classrooms without modern media tools. In the meantime, the school and its ruling culture are strongly influenced by the social conditions and culture of the community and have their own influence either, and there is a profound twist between the school culture and the culture of the surrounding community; in such a way that the amount of wealth, poverty, problems, delinquency, crime, demand or lack of demand for schooling in the community and families influences the school and culture of students' learning and their relationship with teachers while also affects it.