1st Edition
Interpretive Ethnography of Education at Home and Abroad
520 Pages
by
Psychology Press
520 Pages
by
Psychology Press
528 Pages
by
Psychology Press
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This ambitious and unique volume sets a standard of excellence for research in educational ethnography. The interpretive studies brought together in this volume are outstanding discipline-based analyses of education both in the United States and in complex societies abroad.
1: Issues and Applications in Ethnographic Methods; 1: The Method of Natural History and Educational Research *; 2: Teaching and Learning How to Do the Ethnography of Education; 3: On Ethnographic Intent; 4: Figure and Section: Ethnography and Education in the Multicultural State *; 5: Ethnographic Educational Evaluation; 6: Language and Schooling; 2: Comparative and Cross-Cultural; 7: Schönhausen Revisited and the Rediscovery of Culture; 8: Cultural Knowledge for Teaching First Grade: An Example from France; 9: A Case of Mistaken Identity: Interethnic Images in Multicultural England; 10: Chinese Education in a Village Setting; 3: At Home in the USA; Multiculturalism, Immigrants, and Minorities; 11: Variability in Minority Responses to Schooling: Nonimmigrants vs. Immigrants; 12: Punjabi Immigrants in American High School; 13: The Influence of the Ethnic Community on the Adjustment of Vietnamese Refugees; 14: Traditions and Transitions in the Learning Process of Mexican Children: An Ethnographic View; 15: The Hidden Curriculum of Papago Teachers: American Indian Strategies for Mitigating Cultural Discontinuity in Early Schooling; Mainstream; 16: A Comparative Analysis of American Suburban Middle Class, Middle School, and High School Teenage Cliques *; 17: Small Group Culture and the Emergence of Sexist Behavior: A Comparative Study of Four Children's Groups; 18: Lower-Track Classes at a College-Preparatory High School: A Caricature of Educational Encounters; 19: Computer Literacy in Practice: Curricula, Contradictions, and Context
Biography
Louise Spindler, Louise Spindler