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As qualitative methods have gained acceptance, ethnography has become rather overshadowed by interviewing, narrative, focus groups, life history, and autobiography. These volumes focus only on ethnography.
Ethnography has been recognized as an important research method in educational research for over 40 years, but has a longer history than that which is often ignored. This collection demonstrates the long and fascinating history of the use of ethnographic research methods to study educational settings and issues; maps the strengths and weaknesses of ethnography in contemporary educational research; and explores the major controversies surrounding educational ethnography. The theoretical roots of and key figures in ethnographic research done by anthropologists, sociologists and others, are central to the volumes, which brings together often isolated and disparate research traditions so that readers ...
Editor's Introduction: Ethnographic Methods in Education
This introduction explores what is meant by ‘traditional’ ethnography by clarifying the terms, fieldwork and participant observation in relation to ethnography. It explains what the ethnography of education is; sets out the central tenets of the familiarity problem and proposes some strategies to avoid it; provides an overview of key features of the sociological and the anthropological traditions in the ethnography of education; and lastly, introduces the four volumes.
The term ‘traditional’ ethnography is broadly similar to Adler and Adler's (2008) ‘classical and mainstream’; what Fine (2003) termed ‘peopled’ and what Katz (2001 and 2002) sees as producing ‘luminous description’. There are three closely related terms: ethnography, fieldwork, participant observation: all part of a wider category, qualitative research. The majority ...
Table of Contents
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Volume I: Contexts and Theories
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I.1 Historical Context
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1. Our Educational Emphases in Primitive Perspective
Margaret Mead
1943
American Journal of Sociology
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Theodore Brameld | Edward Sullivan
1961
Review of Educational Research
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3. Anthropological Approaches to the Study of Education
Peter Sindell
1969
Review of Educational Research
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4. The Two Traditions in Educational Ethnography: Sociology and Anthropology Compared
Sara Delamont | Paul Atkinson
1980
British Journal of Sociology of Education
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Douglas Foley
1991
Comparative Education Review
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Martyn Hammersley
1980
Educational Analysis
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I.2 Theoretical Contexts
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7. On the Analog between Culture Acquisition and Ethnographic Method
Jacquetta Burnett
1974
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
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8. Where we are and where we might Go: Steps toward a General Theory of Cultural Transmission
Fred Gearing
1973
Anthropology & Education Quarterly (Formerly Council on Anthropology and Education Newsletter)
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9. An Anthropological Framework for Studying Education
Thomas La Belle
1972
Teachers College Record
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I.3 Methodological Diversity
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10. The Use of Ethnographic Techniques in Educational Research
Stephen Wilson
1977
Review of Educational Research
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11. Ethnographic Techniques and the Study of an Urban School
Ray Rist
1975
Urban Education
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12. Criteria for an Ethnographic Approach to Research in Schools
Harry Wolcott
1975
Human Organization
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13. CCCS Gas! Politics and Science in the Work of the Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies
Andy Hargreaves | Martyn Hammersley
1982
Oxford Review of Education
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14. Ethnographic and Qualitative Research Design and why it doesn't Work
Kathryn Borman | Margaret LeCompte | Judith Goetz
1986
American Behavioral Scientist
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I.4 The Familiarity Problem
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Blanche Geer
1964
Sociologists at Work
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16. Confessions of a “Trained” Observer
Harry Wolcott
1981
The Study of Schooling
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17. All Too Familiar? a Decade of Classroom Research
Sara Delamont
1981
Educational Analysis
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18. Roger Harker and Schönhausen: From Familiar to Strange and Back Again
George Spindler | Louise Spindler
1982
Doing Ethnography of Schooling
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19. Making the Familiar Strange: The Anthropological Dialogue of George and Louise Spindler (1998)
Susan Parman
2000
Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education, 1950–2000: A Spindler Anthology
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20. Reflecting on the Reflections: Where did we Come from? where are we Going?
John Singleton
1999
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
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21. Difficult Collective Deliberations: Anthropological Notes toward a Theory of Education
Hervé Varenne
2007
Teachers College Record
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Volume II: Educational Settings
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22. Social Control and Schooling: Power and Process in Two Kindergarten Settings
Kathryn Borman
1978
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
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23. Ceremony, Rites, and Economy in the Student System of an American High School
Jacquetta Burnett
1969
Human Organization
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24. Backward Countryside, Troubled City: French Teachers’ Images of Rural and Working-class Families
Deborah Reed-Danahay | Kathryn Anderson-Levitt
1991
American Ethnologist
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25. ‘Burned Like a Tattoo’ High School Social Categories and ‘American Culture’
Sherry Ortner
2002
Ethnography
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26. Understanding Inequality in Schools: The Contribution of Interpretive Studies
Hugh Mehan
1992
Sociology of Education
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27. Accessing, Waiting, Plunging in, Wondering, and Writing: Retrospective Sense-making of Fieldwork
Peter Magolda
2000
Field Methods
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28. Constructing Ethnographic Relationships: Reflections on Key Issues and Struggles in the Field
Tom Cavanagh
2005
Waikato Journal of Education
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29. Teachers, Teaching and Educational Exclusion: Pupil Referral Units and Pedagogic Practice
Analía Meo | Andrew Parker
2004
International Journal of Inclusive Education
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30. Teaching Lies: The Innu Experience of Schooling
Colin Samson
2000
London Journal of Canadian Studies
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31. “The Teachers, They All Had Their Pets”: Concepts of Gender, Knowledge, and Power
Wendy Luttrell
1993
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society
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32. In Cold Blood: Bedside Teaching in a Medical School
Paul Atkinson
1975
Frontiers of Classroom Research
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33. Learning through the Breach: Language Socialization among African American Cosmetologists
Lanita Jacobs
2007
Ethnography
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Matthew Desmond
2006
Ethnography
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35. “You Have to Get Hit a Couple of Times”: The Role of Conflict in Learning How to “Be” a Skateboarder
Robert Petrone
2010
Teaching and Teacher Education
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36. The Military Academy as an Assimilating Institution
Sanford Dornbusch
1955
Social Forces
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Volume III: Educational Contents – Knowledge and Power
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37. ‘Creative Solutions’ and ‘Fibbing Results': Enculturation in Field Ecology
Wolff-Michael Roth
2001
Social Studies of Science
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38. Social Class and School Knowledge
Jean Anyon
1981
Curriculum Inquiry
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George Riseborough
1988
British Journal of Sociology of Education
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40. In the Beginning Was the Bunsen: The Foundations of Secondary School Science
Sara Delamont | John Beynon | Paul Atkinson
1988
International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education
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41. Culture, Schooling, and the Politics of Class Identity in an Andalusian Town
Richard Maddox
1994
Comparative Education Review
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42. The “Hidden Curriculum” of a West African Girls’ Boarding School
Vandra Masemann
1974
Revue Canadienne des études africaines/Canadian Journal of African Studies
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43. Speaking of Sound: Language and the Professionalization of Sound-recording Engineers
Thomas Porcello
2004
Social Studies of Science
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44. Preparing the Next Generation of Scientists: The Social Process of Managing Students
Robert Campbell
2003
Social Studies of Science
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45. Teaching ‘Race’ at Medical School: Social Scientists on the Margin
Warwick Anderson
2008
Social Studies of Science
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46. Men in the Kitchen: Notes from a Cookery Class
Tony Coxon
1983
Significance of Food
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47. Occupational Aesthetics: How Trade School Students Learn to Cook
Gary Fine
1985
Journal of Contemporary Ethnography (Formerly Urban Life)
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48. The Madam as Teacher: The Training of House Prostitutes
Barbara Heyl
1977
Social Problems
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49. The Art of Memory: Islamic Education and Its Social Reproduction
Dale Eickelman
1978
Comparative Studies in Society and History
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50. The Making of Warriors: Men, Identity and Military Culture
Katerina Agostino
1998
Journal of Interdisciplinary Gender Studies
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51. Deconstructing Masculinity in the English Classroom: A Site for Reconstituting Gendered Subjectivity
Wayne Martino
1995
Gender and Education
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52. The Ninjas, the X-Men, and the Ladies: Playing with Power and Identity in an Urban Primary School
Anne Dyson
1994
Teachers College Record
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53. ‘I'm Your Teacher, I'm Brazilian!’ Authenticity and Authority in European Capoeira
Claudio de Campos Rosario | Neil Stephens | Sara Delamont
2010
Sport, Education and Society
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Volume IV: Participants in Education – Pupils, Students, Teachers, Lecturers
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Ray Rist
2000
Harvard Educational Review
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55. Interaction and Adaptation in Two Negro Kindergartens
Carol Talbert
1970
Human Organization
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56. Gender Differences and Anti-school Boys
John Abraham
1989
The Sociological Review
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57. Hempies and Squeaks, Truckers and Cruisers – a Participant Observer Study in a City High School
Stuart Palonsky
1975
Educational Administration Quarterly
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58. Black Students' School Success: “Coping with the Burden of ‘Acting White’”
Signithia Fordham | John Ogbu
1986
The Urban Review
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59. “I Didn't Do Nothin”: The Discursive Construction of School Suspension
Frances Vavrus | KimMarie Cole
2002
The Urban Review
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60. In the Eye of the Chicken: Hierarchy and Marginality among Beijing's Migrant Schoolchildren
T. Woronov
2004
Ethnography
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61. Expulsion in Context: A School as a System in Action
Audrey Lambart
1982
Custom and Conflict in British Society
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62. The Career of the Chicago Public School Teacher
Howard Becker
1952
American Journal of Sociology
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63. Control and Consciousness in the Colleges
Michael Walker
1983
British Educational Research Journal
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64. Student Teaching as Initiation into the Teaching Profession
Fay Head
1992
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
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65. The ‘Hidden Pedagogy’ and Its Implications for Teacher Training
Martyn Denscombe
1982
British Journal of Sociology of Education
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66. Teacher, Teach Thyself: Teacher Research as Ethnographic Practice
Mark Dressman
2006
Ethnography
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67. Degrees of Distance between Teachers and Parents in Urban France
Kathryn Anderson-Levitt
1989
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
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68. Using Gender to Preserve Tracking's Status Hierarchy: The Defensive Strategy of Entrenched Teachers
Amanda Datnow
1997
Anthropology & Education Quarterly
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