Interpretive Ethnography of Education at Home and Abroad / Edition 1

by Louise Spindler

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780898599244
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/01/1987
Pages:	520
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)
Lexile:	1330L (what's this?)

About the Author

Louise Spindler, Louise Spindler

Table of Contents

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