This volume focuses on and exemplifies how ethnography--a research
tool devoted to looking at human interaction as a cultural process
rather than individual psychology--can shed light on educational
processes framed by the complex, internationalized societies in
which we live today. Part I offers theoretical chapters about
ethnography and examples of innovative ethnography from particular
perspectives. In Part II, the emphasis is on the application of
ethnographic approaches to educational settings.
Each contribution not only takes the reader on a thoughtful and
enlightening journey, but raises issues that are important to both
educators and ethnographers, including the relationship of
researcher to subject, the meaning of "participant" in participant
observation, and ways to give voice to disenfranchised players, and
on the complex ways in which all parties experience identities such
as "race" in the modern world.
"Innovations in Educational Ethnography: Theory, Methods, and
Results" is a product of both continuity and change. It presents
current writings from mentors in the field of ethnography and
education, as well of the work of their students, and of educators
engaged in cultural studies of their work. In many ways it provides
fresh, new vistas on the old questions that have always guided
ethnographic research, and can be used as a survey both of what
ethnography has been and what it is becoming.
This book is the work of many hands, and provides excellent
examples of trends in both basic and applied ethnography of
education. These two kinds of work augment and reinforce each
other, and also represent important current research
directions--in-depth reflection on theprocess of ethnography
itself, and an application of its insights to teaching and learning
in schools, universities, and communities. No one philosophy guides
the contributions to this volume, nor were they chosen as exemplary
of a particular approach, yet foundational understandings and
principles of ethnography shine through the work, in both
predictable and unexpected ways.
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