Fieldwork assignment
The students were given the following assignment in the first week of snow in Alta:
A lot of tourists that come to Alta has seldom or never experienced snow. In summertime there is no or at least little snow. Tourists might ask you how life is in Alta wintertime and how you experience snow. When storytelling in tourism, the best way to succeed is to refer to Your own experiences. What would be Your answer to this question. Do a small Research Project With fieldwork today.
Research question
How do you experience snow?
Theory
Ruane, J. M. (2016). Introducing Social Research Methods: Essentials for Getting the Edge. Chapter 10. Field Research: Welcome to My World. West Sussex: Wiley Blackwell.
Crouch, D., & Desforges, L. (2003). The sensuous in the tourist encounter: Introduction: The power of the body in tourist studies. Tourist studies, 3(1), 5-22.
Granås, B. (2018). Destinizing Finnmark: Place making through dogsledding. Annals of Tourism Research, 72, 48-57.
Heimtun, B. (2015). Tourists’ Affective Perceptions of a Cold Destination: Feelings Towards Northern Norway in the Winter. Northern Review, (40), 9-33.
Methodology
Performative autoethnography, phenomenology
Methods
Embodied sensuos research where data is written down as fieldnotes, you can draw, do soundtakes, make videos and/or take pictures. You should also talk to others in an open-ended interview to find out how other’s experience snow. May be you need to take someone with you outside and experience the snow in situ.
Analysis
Relate to the theory in the Curriculum and be inspired. How is your experience of snow and how is it compared to others?
Outcome
Write a Five Paragraph Essay with pictures, sounds, videos etc and post it on our edu-blog.