1st Edition

Critical Ethnography in Educational Research A Theoretical and Practical Guide

By Francis Phil Carspecken Copyright 1996

    Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. Critical Ethnography in Educational Research provides both a technical, theoretical guide to advanced ethnography--focusing on such concepts as primary data collection and system relationships--and a very practical guide for researchers interested in conducting actual studies.

    Chapter 1 What is Critical Qualitative Research?; Chapter 2 Ontological Models and Research Design; Chapter 3 Stage One: Building a Primary Record; Chapter 4 Validity Claims and Three Ontologicol Realms; Chapter 5 Validity Requirements for Constructing the Primary Record; Chapter 6 Stage Two: Preliminary Reconstructive Analysis; Chapter 7 More on Reconstructive Analysis: Embodied Meaning, Power; and Secondary Concepts of Interaction; Chapter 8 Volidity Requirements for Stage Two; Chapter 9 Coding Procedures Congruent with Reconstructive Analysis; Chapter 10 Stage Three: Dialogical Data Generation through Interviews, Group Discussions, and IPR; Chapter 11 Validity Requirements for Stage Three; Chapter 12 Conceptualizing the Social System; Chapter 13 Stages Four and Five: Conducting Systems Analysis;

    Biography

    Carspecken, Francis Phil