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A state-of-the-art reference on educational ethnography edited by leading journal editors This book brings an international group of writers together to offer an authoritative state-of-the-art review of, and critical reflection on, educational ethnography as it is being theorized and practiced todayfrom rural and remote settings to virtual and visual posts. It provides a definitive reference point and academic resource for those wishing to learn more about ethnographic research in education and the ways in which it might inform their research as well as their practice. Engaging in equal measure with the history of ethnography, its current state-of play as well as its prospects, The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education covers a range of traditional and contemporary subjectsfoundational aims and principles; what constitutes good' ethnographic practice; the role of theory; global and multi-sited ethnographic methods in education research; ethnography's many forms (visual, virtual

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors ix

Introduction 1
Dennis Beach, Carl Bagley, and Sofia Marques da Silva

Part One 15

1 Recognizable Continuity: A Defense of Multiple Methods 17
Geoffrey Walford

2 Lived Forms of Schooling: Bringing the Elementary Forms of Ethnography to the Science of Education 31
Mats Trondman, Paul Willis, and Anna Lund

3 Tales of Working Without/Against a Compass: Rethinking Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Ethnography 51
Barbara Dennis

4 Communities of Practice and Pedagogy 71
Sara Delamont and Paul Atkinson

5 Critical Bifocality 91
Lois Weis and Michelle Fine

6 Ethnographic Writing 113
Bob Jeffrey

7 What Can Be Learnt?: Educational Ethnography, the Sociology of Knowledge, and Ethnomethodology 135
Christoph Maeder

Part Two 151

8 Changing Conceptions of Culture and Ethnography in Anthropology of Education in the United States 153
Margaret Eisenhart

9 Ethnography of Schooling in England: A History and Assessment of Its Early Development 173
Martyn Hammersley

10 Latin American Educational Ethnography 195
Diana Milstein and Angeles Clemente

11 Curriculum, Ethnography, and the Context of Practice in the Field of Curriculum Policies in Brazil 215
Alice Casimiro Lopes and Maria de Lourdes Rangel Tura

12 Ethnographic Research in Schools: Historical Roots and Developments with a Focus on Germany and Switzerland 233
Anja Sieber Egger and Gisela Unterweger

13 Ethnography and Education in an African Context 257
Maropeng Modiba and Sandra Stewart

Part Three 323

14 Visual Ethnography in Education 325
Gunilla Holm

15 Lost in Performance? Rethinking and Reworking the Methodology of Educational Ethnography: Artistic and Performance Perspectives 355
Jim Mienczakowski

16 Staging Resistance: Theatres of the Oppressed 375
Norman K. Denzin

17 Agential Realism and Educational Ethnography: Guidance for Application from Karen Barad’s New Materialism and Charles Sanders Peirce’s Material Semiotics 403
Jerry Lee Rosiek

18 Multi]sited Global Ethnography and Elite Schools: A Methodological Entrée 423
Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey, Debbie Epstein, Aaron Koh, Cameron McCarthy, and Fazal Rizvi

19 Educational Ethnography In and For a Mobile Modernity 443
Martin Forsey

20 On Network(ed) Ethnography in the Global Education Policyscape 455
Carolina Junemann, Stephen J. Ball, and Diego Santori

21 Autoethnography Comes of Age: Consequences, Comforts, and Concerns 479
Andrew C. Sparkes

22 Positionality and Standpoint: Situated Ethnographers Acting in On- and Offline Contexts 501
Sofia Marques da Silva and Joan Parker Webster

Part Four 513

23 Ethnography of Education: Thinking Forward, Looking Back 515
Dennis Beach, Carl Bagley, and Sofia Marques da Silva

Notes 533

Index 549

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      Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
      Publication Date: 18/04/2018
      ISBN13: 9781118933701, 978-1118933701
      ISBN10: 1118933702

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      A state-of-the-art reference on educational ethnography edited by leading journal editors This book brings an international group of writers together to offer an authoritative state-of-the-art review of, and critical reflection on, educational ethnography as it is being theorized and practiced todayfrom rural and remote settings to virtual and visual posts. It provides a definitive reference point and academic resource for those wishing to learn more about ethnographic research in education and the ways in which it might inform their research as well as their practice. Engaging in equal measure with the history of ethnography, its current state-of play as well as its prospects, The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education covers a range of traditional and contemporary subjectsfoundational aims and principles; what constitutes good' ethnographic practice; the role of theory; global and multi-sited ethnographic methods in education research; ethnography's many forms (visual, virtual

      Table of Contents

      Notes on Contributors ix

      Introduction 1
      Dennis Beach, Carl Bagley, and Sofia Marques da Silva

      Part One 15

      1 Recognizable Continuity: A Defense of Multiple Methods 17
      Geoffrey Walford

      2 Lived Forms of Schooling: Bringing the Elementary Forms of Ethnography to the Science of Education 31
      Mats Trondman, Paul Willis, and Anna Lund

      3 Tales of Working Without/Against a Compass: Rethinking Ethical Dilemmas in Educational Ethnography 51
      Barbara Dennis

      4 Communities of Practice and Pedagogy 71
      Sara Delamont and Paul Atkinson

      5 Critical Bifocality 91
      Lois Weis and Michelle Fine

      6 Ethnographic Writing 113
      Bob Jeffrey

      7 What Can Be Learnt?: Educational Ethnography, the Sociology of Knowledge, and Ethnomethodology 135
      Christoph Maeder

      Part Two 151

      8 Changing Conceptions of Culture and Ethnography in Anthropology of Education in the United States 153
      Margaret Eisenhart

      9 Ethnography of Schooling in England: A History and Assessment of Its Early Development 173
      Martyn Hammersley

      10 Latin American Educational Ethnography 195
      Diana Milstein and Angeles Clemente

      11 Curriculum, Ethnography, and the Context of Practice in the Field of Curriculum Policies in Brazil 215
      Alice Casimiro Lopes and Maria de Lourdes Rangel Tura

      12 Ethnographic Research in Schools: Historical Roots and Developments with a Focus on Germany and Switzerland 233
      Anja Sieber Egger and Gisela Unterweger

      13 Ethnography and Education in an African Context 257
      Maropeng Modiba and Sandra Stewart

      Part Three 323

      14 Visual Ethnography in Education 325
      Gunilla Holm

      15 Lost in Performance? Rethinking and Reworking the Methodology of Educational Ethnography: Artistic and Performance Perspectives 355
      Jim Mienczakowski

      16 Staging Resistance: Theatres of the Oppressed 375
      Norman K. Denzin

      17 Agential Realism and Educational Ethnography: Guidance for Application from Karen Barad’s New Materialism and Charles Sanders Peirce’s Material Semiotics 403
      Jerry Lee Rosiek

      18 Multi]sited Global Ethnography and Elite Schools: A Methodological Entrée 423
      Jane Kenway, Johannah Fahey, Debbie Epstein, Aaron Koh, Cameron McCarthy, and Fazal Rizvi

      19 Educational Ethnography In and For a Mobile Modernity 443
      Martin Forsey

      20 On Network(ed) Ethnography in the Global Education Policyscape 455
      Carolina Junemann, Stephen J. Ball, and Diego Santori

      21 Autoethnography Comes of Age: Consequences, Comforts, and Concerns 479
      Andrew C. Sparkes

      22 Positionality and Standpoint: Situated Ethnographers Acting in On- and Offline Contexts 501
      Sofia Marques da Silva and Joan Parker Webster

      Part Four 513

      23 Ethnography of Education: Thinking Forward, Looking Back 515
      Dennis Beach, Carl Bagley, and Sofia Marques da Silva

      Notes 533

      Index 549

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