Studying Schools, Studying Ourselves: Ethnographic Perspectives on Educational Reform.

Emihovich, Catherine

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ERIC Number: EJ598489

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Publication Date: 1999

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Studying Schools, Studying Ourselves: Ethnographic Perspectives on Educational Reform.

Emihovich, Catherine

Anthropology & Education Quarterly, v30 n4 p477-83 Dec 1999

The three books reviewed continue the time-honored tradition of observing life in schools. Each book offers a different perspective on this topic and provides stimulating ideas about how collaboration between school personnel and academic researchers can be accomplished. Each also raises questions about the meaning of doing ethnographic research. (SLD)

Descriptors: College School Cooperation, Educational Anthropology, Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography, Higher Education, Research Methodology

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Language: English

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Note: Reviews three books: (1) "Reform and Resistance in Schools and Classrooms: An Ethnographic View of the Coalition of Essential Schools" by Donna E. Muncey and Patrick J. McQuillan; (2) "How It Works: Inside a School-College Collaboration" by Sidney Trubowitz and Paul Longo; and (3) "Studying Your Own School: An Educator's Guide to Qualitative Practitioner Research" by Gary L. Anderson, Kathryn Herr, and Ann Sigrid Nihlen.