Ethnography and educational policy : a view across the Americas / edited by Bradley A.U. Levinson ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Levinson, Bradley A., 1963-

Conference Name:

Interamerican Symposium on Ethnographic Educational Research (8th : 1999 : Bloomington, Ind.)

Series:

Sociocultural studies in educational policy formation and appropriation ; v. 3.

Sociocultural studies in educational policy formation and appropriation, 1530-5473 ; v. 3

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Educational anthropology--America--Congresses.

Educational anthropology.

Educational anthropology--Cross-cultural studies--Congresses.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024

Place of Publication:

Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Third in the series Sociocultural Studies of Educational Policy Formation and Appropriation, this volume brings together scholars from North America, South America, and Europe to examine the relationship between ethnographic research and educational policy. The product of papers and discussions originally taking place at the Interamerican Symposium on Ethnographic Educational Research, the book presents both original empirical research reports and theoretical-methodological proposals for using ethnography to study and influence educational policy. After an introduction and opening chapter that highlight the different ways of conceptualizing education, education policy, and diversity across American borders, five full chapters address the relationship between ethnography and educational policy through sustained empirical attention to specific research sites and projects.The next section of the book presents shorter position statements that relate specific research or policymaking experiences and reflect on the ways that ethnography can be involved in a project of formulating or revising policy. In this section, edited transcriptions of workshop discussions give the reader a vibrant sense of the challenging issues facing educational ethnographers attempting to address policy. The book closes with a commentary by a veteran educational ethnographer. Of interest to educators, researchers, and policymakers across the Americas, this volume contributes to an ongoing dialogue about how ethnographic research can intersect advantageously with the policymaking enterprise.

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction Ethnography and Education Policy Across the Americas Bradley A. U. Levinson and Sandra L. Cade""; ""Part I Looking Across Borders""; ""Chapter 1 Constructing Diversity and Civility in the United States and Latin America: Implications for Ethnographic Educational Research Elsie Rockwell""; ""Part II Research Projects and Interpretation""; ""Chapter 2 When Policy Moves Fast, How Long Can Ethnography Take? Geoffrey Walford""

""Chapter 6 Alternative Educational Projects: Technical Developments and Political Debate in the Everyday Workings of “Nongraded� Schools in Argentina Ana Padawer""""Part III Position Statements and Discussions""; ""Chapter 7 The Role of Ethnographic Research in Education Policy: A Trail to Blaze Etelvina Sandoval Flores""; ""Chapter 8 Education Policy and Ethnography: Problems, Prospects, and New Directions Patricia Medina Melgarejo""; ""Chapter 9 Perspective- Taking in the Practice-Research Gap: Using Ethnography to Help Schools See Themselves Peter Demerath""

""Chapter 10 Workshop Discussion: Ethnography and Policy� The State of the Art Participants in the Eighth Interamerican Symposium""""Chapter 11 A Teacher in Transition: Coming to Terms with Prior Beliefs Barbara Greybeck""; ""Chapter 12 Teaching the Ethnographic Vision as a Way into Policy? A Brazilian Perspective on Ethnography as a Social Control Practice Isabela Cabral Fe� lix de Sousa""; ""Ethnography and Education Policy: A Commentary Frederick Erickson""; ""Index""; ""About the Contributors""

Notes:

Papers from the Eighth Interamerican Symposium on Ethnographic Educational Research, held Oct. 1999 in Bloomington, Ind.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9798400647918

9786610315185

9781280315183

1280315180

9780313011917

0313011915

OCLC:

55498194