Innovations in Educational Ethnography: Theories, Methods, and Results

by Spindler; George

• ISBN13: 9780805845303
• ISBN10: 0805845305
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-03-08
• Publisher: Psychology Pres

Summary

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 the process 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.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
I THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS IN ETHNOGRAPHY
1 Reconstructing Culture in Educational Research	3	(30)
Ray McDermott and Hervé Varenne
2 Inside-Out and Outside-In: Participant Observation in Taiko Drumming	33	(32)
Kimberly Powell
3 Living and Writing Ethnography: An Exploration in Self-Adaptation and Its Consequences	65	(18)
George Spindler
4 Race Wrestling: Struggling Strategically With Race in Educational Practice and Research	83	(44)
Mica Pollock
5 Finding Safety in Dangerous Places	127	(42)
Jason Duque Raley
6 Lived Landscapes of the Fillmore	169	(66)
Ingrid Seyer-Ochi
II STUDYING "SIDE BY SIDE": ETHNOGRAPHIC APPLICATIONS TO EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS
7 Studying Side by Side: Collaborative Action Ethnography in Educational Research	235	(24)
Frederick Erickson
8 Toward Teacher Education That Takes the Study of Culture as Foundational: Building Bridges Between Teacher Knowledge Research and Educational Ethnography	259	(28)
Jerry Rosiek
9 Digging Deeper: Using Reflective Dialogue to Illuminate the Cultural Processes Inherent in Science Education	287	(34)
Lorie Hammond
10 Narratives of Location: Epistemology and Place in Higher Education	321	(24)
Carol Brandt
11 Community-Based Science Education Research: Narratives From a Filipino Barangay	345	(34)
Sharon Nichols, Deborah Tippins, Lourdes Morano, Purita Bilbao, and Tessie Barcenal
Author Index	379	(8)
Subject Index	387