1st Edition

Interpretive Ethnography of Education at Home and Abroad

Edited By Louise Spindler, Louise Spindler Copyright 1987
    520 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    520 Pages
    by Psychology Press

    This ambitious and unique volume sets a standard of excellence for research in educational ethnography. The interpretive studies brought together in this volume are outstanding discipline-based analyses of education both in the United States and in complex societies abroad.

    1: Issues and Applications in Ethnographic Methods; 1: The Method of Natural History and Educational Research *; 2: Teaching and Learning How to Do the Ethnography of Education; 3: On Ethnographic Intent; 4: Figure and Section: Ethnography and Education in the Multicultural State *; 5: Ethnographic Educational Evaluation; 6: Language and Schooling; 2: Comparative and Cross-Cultural; 7: Schönhausen Revisited and the Rediscovery of Culture; 8: Cultural Knowledge for Teaching First Grade: An Example from France; 9: A Case of Mistaken Identity: Interethnic Images in Multicultural England; 10: Chinese Education in a Village Setting; 3: At Home in the USA; Multiculturalism, Immigrants, and Minorities; 11: Variability in Minority Responses to Schooling: Nonimmigrants vs. Immigrants; 12: Punjabi Immigrants in American High School; 13: The Influence of the Ethnic Community on the Adjustment of Vietnamese Refugees; 14: Traditions and Transitions in the Learning Process of Mexican Children: An Ethnographic View; 15: The Hidden Curriculum of Papago Teachers: American Indian Strategies for Mitigating Cultural Discontinuity in Early Schooling; Mainstream; 16: A Comparative Analysis of American Suburban Middle Class, Middle School, and High School Teenage Cliques *; 17: Small Group Culture and the Emergence of Sexist Behavior: A Comparative Study of Four Children's Groups; 18: Lower-Track Classes at a College-Preparatory High School: A Caricature of Educational Encounters; 19: Computer Literacy in Practice: Curricula, Contradictions, and Context

    Biography

    Louise Spindler, Louise Spindler