Presents findings from a recent field study in which ethnographic methods and social network theory were used to investigate the flow of human services information (HSI) among nurses, the elderly and other attendees at foot clinics. Discusses four categories of contextual factors in terms of their impact on participants' information behavior and…

Concerns current transformation in the relationship between political and linguistic ideologies of la francophonie based on a sociolinguistic ethnographic study in a French-language minority school in Canada. (Author/VWL)

This study explores the gendered discourse of social-based computer-mediated contexts. Specifically, the critical ethnography explicates the patterns of discourse of male-based and female-based Internet chatrooms and discusses the findings of participant observation. (Contains 36 references.) (Author/LRW)

A case study of a high school girl's experience in home, school, and community in Yemen and as an immigrant to the United States highlights the duality of living between two cultures and the influences of Yemeni and U.S. cultures on each other and on the development of identity. (Contains 29 references.) (SK)

Explores two forms of workplace literacies that served as instruments of management in a community mental health boarding home established for middle-aged women, and summarizes key issues that emerged from analysis of textual ethnography. Examines the record of textual mediation of workers and residents in an extensive, anecdotal workplace text…

Maintains that the primary contribution of Wolfberg's book is its integration of various research literatures and its rich case studies, though its noncritical stance toward prevailing diagnostic paradigms for autism might be a shortcoming. Suggests that the book's reference to developmental stages is remarkably traditional for a text that…

Reports interim results of five separate studies of preservice teacher-research issues. Discusses eight cross-cutting themes that deserve further examination, including: expectations of teacher educators are crucial; teacher research and student teaching are integrated; those who instruct in teacher research should model it in their practice; and…

The concept of risk, and its centrality to social life, is theoretically much discussed within late modernity. This paper examines young people's drug use and their drug transitions within a framework of risk drawing on findings from a longitudinal ethnographic study of drug use among young people in a Dublin inner-city community. Fifty-seven…

The emphasis placed on prolonged engagement, fieldwork, and participant observation has prevented wide-scale use of ethnography in counseling psychology. This article provides a discussion of ethnography in terms of definition, process, and potential ethical dilemmas. The authors propose that ethnographically informed methods can enhance…

It can be difficult to think of teaching critically as a social responsibility within settings that do not appear closely related to larger social values, practices, and problems. The author uses an interpretive ethnographic method to study criticality in the classroom within a job reeducation program designed to prepare laid-off factory workers…

This composite autoethnographic account results from the author's experiences as a member of an ethnic minority group pursuing a graduate degree at a predominantly White university. As a consequence, the narrative provides insights into the utility of autoethnography as a means of social science inquiry and into the lived experiences of people of…

After completing a longitudinal study of co-principal shared leadership initiatives in Aotearoa/New Zealand, the author discusses some of the issues raised by her research design and methods. First, she explains the storying techniques she used to construct case narratives of each initiative. While these accounts drew largely on the participants'…

The data in this article come from an ethnographic exploration into the construction of masculinities in three junior schools in the UK between 1998 and 1999. The author argues that the construction and performance of masculinity is inextricably linked to the acquisition of status within the school peer group, and he delineates the specific series…

The recognition of children's social agency and active participation in research has significantly changed children's position within the human and social sciences and led to a weakening of taken-for-granted assumptions found in more conventional approaches to child research. In order to hear the voices of children in the representation of their…

Over the last century, much was researched in the field of Education, be its educational policies or more effective learning strategies. It is only recently that studies have begun to focus on the teachers. This article describes an investigation about how the knowledge of teachers working in the field of Environmental Education is formed,…