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Contains articles that exemplify the conflicts, the coping strategies and resolutions adopted by those at the policy implementation interface. Examination of these processes using ethnographic methods identifies and characterises these tensions and provides research findings that can be used to construct solutions.
List of contents
Preface. Introduction. The Case for Partisan Research: Erving Goffman and Researching Social Inequalities. Should Ethnographers be Against Inequality? On Becker, Value Neutrality, and Researcher Partisanship. Ict and Educational (Dis)Advantage: Cultural Resources and the Digital Divide. Writing Inequalities: Literacy and Social Class in Three Primary Schools. Addressing Inequities: Lessons in Syncretism from Mexican American and Puerto Rican Children at Home and at School. 'I Don't Think She Knew I Couldn't Do It': Bangladeshi Pupils and Achievement in the Early Years of Schooling. Making It: Caribbean Children Transgressing Barriers and Inequality to Achieve Success. Naming and Dealing with Inequality: Immigrant Students Perspective of Unequal Spaces in the Classroom. Identity Formation of Female Students in a Predominantly Female, Multiethnic High School. The Risk Zone: Intersections of Identity and Literacy in a Multiage, Multilingual Classroom. Reducing Inequalities in Field Relations: Who Gets The Power? About the Authors.
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Contains articles that exemplify the conflicts, the coping strategies and resolutions adopted by those at the policy implementation interface. Examination of these processes using ethnographic methods identifies and characterises these tensions and provides research findings that can be used to construct solutions.
