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Ethnography has become a major method of researching educational settings. Its key strength is its emphasis on understanding the perceptions and cultures of the people and organizations under scrutiny. This volume addresses the task of undertaking a doctorate in educational ethnography.
List of contents
Introduction - the doctoral experience, G. Walford; on the doctoral endeavour, G. Bhatti; close encounters of the third kind - researching children's sexual cultures in the primary school, E. Renold; learning on the job - micropolitics and identity work in teacher/doctoral student research, S. Benjamin; jet-setting postgrad - ethnographic research in two countries, F. Vogt; it's a white knuckle ride - reflections from the PhD experience, L. Pugsley; Method in the messiness - experiencing the ethnographic PhD process, G. Troman; pressures, problems and the PhD process - tales from the "training ground", A. Parker; the novice researcher - expectation meets reality, K. Johannesen Brock; alone in a crowd or going native? a doctoral student's experience, G. O'Toole; the influences of personal biography on the doctoral research process, C. Hudson; researching the ineffable - that which cannot be expressed in words, J. Lilly.
Summary
Ethnography has become a major method of researching educational settings. Its key strength is its emphasis on understanding the perceptions and cultures of the people and organizations under scrutiny. This volume addresses the task of undertaking a doctorate in educational ethnography.
