Discusses narratives and the possible narrative structure of the process leading up to the completed article. Discusses two approaches to categorization and the most commonly referred to criteria for identifying narratives as well as the problems principally involved in punctuation of sequences and thus in deciding which narrative we are dealing…

Discusses how one college professor incorporated the voices of marginalized students into her course, "Race, Culture, and Class." Ex-gang member students were invited to participate in an ethnographic research project in which they interviewed gang members from their communities and shared findings with their more privileged classmates.…

Finds that the relationship established between a high school content-area teacher and her students motivated them to engage in literacy activities and that students responded positively to the strategies she taught, although they did not transfer strategies to other content classes. Notes that this teacher-student relationship illustrates how…

Proposes ethnomethodology as a theoretical approach for resolving the structure-agency binary and for treating the activities of writers in organizations as simultaneously embedded in and constitutive of organizational context. Illustrates the value of ethnomethodology with data from a study examining the social practices that surrounded the…

Explores the successes and failures of the author's "Searching for Osun," a performance ethnography which charted a subjective and selective meditation on Nigeria. Explains important concepts of performance ethnography, such as: an idea of question which constitutes the context; the accountability of the ethnographer; subjectivity;…

Reports on ethnographic research that explores the range of ways in which Spanish-English bilingual immigrant youth interpret English language texts for their families. Focuses on interpretations of written text for close family members, done at home, and charts the domains of these multiple literacies. Argues that bilingual youth's experiences as…

Discusses the uses for soft systems methodology (SSM) in English language training (ELT) projects. It is suggested that ethnographic techniques may help in achieving the understanding needed to start an ELT project while SSM may provide a useful means for structuring ethnographic findings. (Author/VWL)

Discusses the interaction of culture and creative drama. Examines agricultural societies under three conditions: historically, from neolithic times; contemporary American Southwest Indian and Polynesian; and modern farming subcultures of European industrial societies. Asks how far agricultural life influences creative drama in agrarian societies.…

Argues that framing the issue of standards in terms of quantitative-qualitative debate is misguided. Discusses the possibility that the problem of standards is best framed in terms of the "logics in use" associated with various research methodologies. Presents five standards that can apply to all educational research. (JS)

Reviews the ethnographic criticism literature and considers its potential applications for the teaching of ethnographic writing. Discusses three major areas: (1) textbook organization; (2) use of first-person and other forms of narrative voice; and (3) teaching political awareness of choices of language and literary forms. (MW)

Discusses types of culture, levels of acculturation, and ethnic identity among various Indian groups in the Southeast. Argues that these groups have perpetuated their distinctiveness and strengthened their political identities as Indians through processes of modernization, and that the recent acquisition of modern political and business acumen has…

Provides a transcript of a dialogue between two researchers concerning their experiences as collaborative ethnographers. Describes some of the positive and negative benefits of collaborative work. (HB)

Discusses factors which lead to attrition from adult distance learning courses. Learning barriers included situational, institutional, dispositional, and epistemological factors. Comparisons between persisters and withdrawals are presented, and the study's impact on future distance learning programs is discussed. (Contains 26 references.) (SLW)

Uses ethnographic materials of the past 150 years to examine the visionary traditions of Native Americans of the Great Plains. Presents a Native American worldview in which dreams and visions represent contacts with primordial sources of empowerment and knowledge and play a creative role in the formation and maintenance of cultural values. (SV)

The pessimistic conclusions of studies of vocational education/training conducted within a framework of reproduction theory contrast with the policy literature's faith in the promise of a high trust/high skill society. The transformation of society and social relations is unlikely to occur in a capitalist system. (SK)