Ethnography and Schools

Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Education

Contributions by Phil Francis Carspecken, Douglas Foley, Perry Gilmore, Peter N. Kiang, Joe L. Kincheloe, Peter McLaren Emeritus Professor, the University of California, Los Angeles, James Joseph Scheurich, David Smith, George D. Spindler, Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, Henry T. Trueba, Harry F. Wolcott Edited by Yali Zou, Enrique T. Trueba

Publication date:

25 June 2002

Length of book:

328 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780742517363

The ethnographic experience is an indelible venture that continuously redefines one's life. Bringing together important cross-currents in the national debate on education, this book introduces the student or practitioner to the challenges, resources, and skills informing ethnographic research today. From the first chapter describing the cultural foundations of ethnographic research, by George Spindler, the book traces both traditional and new approaches to the study of schools and their communities. Emphasis on discourse, critical pedagogy, and ethnicity are among the many aspects of methodology and educational change emphasized by the contributors.

Chapter 1 The Collusion of Illusion and How to Get People to Tell You What They Don't Know
Chapter 2 Ethnography? Or Educational Travel Writing?
Chapter 3 The Destructive Desire for a Depoliticized Ethnographic Methodology: Response to Harry F. Wolcott
Chapter 4 The Hidden History of Praxis Theory within Critical Ethnography and the Criticalism/Postmodernism Problematic
Chapter 5 Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative Research
Chapter 6 Critical Ethnography in the Postcritical Moment
Chapter 7 The Challenge of Urban Ethnography
Chapter 8 Methodological Challenges of Critical Ethnography: Insights from Collaborations on an Idigenous Counter Narrative
Chapter 9 Adaptive Strategies of a Chinese Immigrant
Chapter 10 Stories and Structures of Persistence: Ethnographic Learning Through Research and Practice in Asian American Studies
Chapter 11 The Class Clown: A School Liminar
Chapter 12 Critical Ethnography and Community Change

Provide readers with an overview of the research trajectory followed by particular researchers and the intersection of theory, method, advocacy, and the role of self and other in critical ethnography.