A model of ethnographic discourse analysis for an interdisciplinary team

The purpose of this article is to present a methodological model for analyzing the ethnographic discourse of an interdisciplinary team, which I have developed during research that examined such discourse in a special education school. This methodological model includes a processing tool for mapping and organizing data, as well as an applied methodological tool for analyzing discourse results in the form of a scheme of key-words. The analysis of discourse results is conducted along two axes of comparison: the meaning of the key word for the professional who uses it, and the meaning of the same key word for his/her interlocutors, that is, professionals from other fields. In addition, the article addresses the specific issues of collection, mapping, and analysis of data in this combined method.