Argues that the traditional basis for selection of objects for ethnographic study is unsystematic and largely intuitive. The solution is to ground the selection aspect of ethnographic practice in either universal pragmatics or conversational structure. (Contains 70 references) (JP)

Examines ways business and cultural frames of reference affect decision making in multicultural groups. Finds students' reactions to two class activities shows how "groupthink" arose in both exercises; cultural interference paralyzed group decision making in one group; and cultural interference demonstrated the importance of a cultural…

Considers how many students walk into the class with an array of technical communicating perspectives that open the door for practical experiences. Believes that a technical communicator employs the ethnographic process for the purpose of creating technical documents. Presents an ethnographic framed assignment that requires a collaboratively…

A counselor educator interviews a well-known traditional African healer in a village in Burkina Faso, West Africa, to learn how he chose his profession, the content and duration of his preparation, how he relates to his clients, and how he diagnoses their problems and intervenes on their behalf. (Author/GCP)

Notes the "Children as Peacemakers" study, a video ethnography of peacemaking efforts in an elementary school. Includes excerpts from interviews and discussions with a grade 2 child, her mother, and her teacher concerning their experiences with "Peacemakers" approach. Notes that the "Peacemakers" approach offers…

Suggests that an examination of rhetorical practices at the local bar is instructive: (1) the barroom is predictably different from the university writing classroom; and (2) the barroom is surprisingly similar to the university writing classroom. Shows that the rhetoric that is valued most highly in today's writing classroom operates differently…

Explores the experiences of a university lecturer with a group of primary teachers working together on a joint classroom-based ethnographic research project on problem solving. (Author/CCM)

Proposes coteaching as a viable model for teacher preparation and the professional development of urban science teachers. Includes an ethnography describing the experiences of a new teacher assigned to an urban high school in which a curriculum culturally relevant to African American students was enacted. (Author/MM)

This article focuses on the construction of gender identities among young boys and girls in a black primary school. Against the backdrop of food insecurity, young boys' and girls' vulnerability to violence and to using violence as a means of getting food is increased. Violence is a clear manifestation of gender inequalities. Drawing on data…

This article describes ethnographic decision tree modeling (EDTM; C. H. Gladwin, 1989) as a mixed method design appropriate for counseling psychology research. EDTM is introduced and located within a postpositivist research paradigm. Decision theory that informs EDTM is reviewed, and the 2 phases of EDTM are highlighted. The 1st phase, model…

Gender plays a significant role in the experiences of workers within organizations. This is particularly true for women in non-traditional roles as they constantly struggle with gender barriers that are so ensconced in certain organizations and in society as to be accepted without question. Using an autoethnographical account, I explore the…

This is an ethnographic study of the literacy practices of a group of rural Northeastern Thai women participating in a community-based literacy programme. Field research for the study examined the women's literacy practices and domains of literacy use in daily life, and the strategies they used to negotiate day-to-day life tasks in the context of…

Ethnography can be practiced anywhere by anyone without the slightest knowledge that it is being practiced. The students of three elementary schools are being examined to find the ways in which they have engaged in ethnographic writing.

This review of literature outlines the ways that identity has been theorized in recent years in two educational sub-disciplines concerned with language and education: second language acquisition (SLA) and literacy studies. The article explores how selective appropriations from the work of Bourdieu and Foucault have informed ethnographic and case…

Anger has become a major focus of clinical and consultation services in school settings. This phenomenon, like all phenomena, can only be properly assessed and conceptualized in context. Colonization, disempowerment, cultural oppression, and the processes of political and psychological decolonization have been highly relevant contexts in Hawai'i…