| Description |
vi, 224 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Counterpoints ; v. 44 |
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Counterpoints (New York, N.Y.) ; vol. 44
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| Contents |
Pt. 1. Thinking about Ethnography and Education. Ch. 1. The Prospects of an Applied Ethnography for Education: A Sociology of Knowledge Interpretation. Ch. 2. The Holistic Injunction: An Ideal and a Moral Imperative for Qualitative Research. Ch. 3. Evaluation Designs as Political Strategies. Ch. 4. Action Research as an Agent for Developing Teachers' Communicative Competence. Ch. 5. Meta-Ethnography: Synthesizing Qualitative Studies -- Pt. 2. Ethnographies of Education and Race. Ch. 6. Cultural Degradation and Minority Student Adaptations: The School Experience and Minority Adjustment Contingencies. Ch. 7. Cui Bono? White students in a Desegregating High School. Ch. 8. Patience and Prudence in a Southern High School: Managing The Political Economy of Desegregated Education. Ch. 9. Cultural Ignorance and School Desegregation: Reconstructing a Silenced Narrative. Ch. 10. Power and Caring |
| Summary |
Ethnography is much more than a collection of research techniques. The paradigm wars in educational research have pushed qualitative methods to become increasingly focused on technique and theory. The essays in this volume speak against these trends by examining ethnography as a way of understanding particularities. Examining the ethnographic enterprise itself. Particularities demonstrates the power of ethnography through discrete studies of education and race |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Educational anthropology -- United States.
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Educational sociology -- United States.
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| LC no. |
97017054 |
| ISBN |
0820436747 |
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