The Wiley Handbook of Ethnography of Education (eBook)

DENNIS BEACH, PhD, is Professor of Education at the Faculty of Education and Special Education at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden and at the Faculty of Librarianship, Information, Education and IT at the University of Borå, Sweden. CARL BAGLEY, PhD, is Professor of Educational Sociology and Head of the School of Social Sciences, Education and Social Work at Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland. SOFIA MARQUES DA SILVA, PhD, is a lecturer at the Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences of the University of Porto and researcher at CIIE - Educational Research and Intervention Centre in Portugal.

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