Critical Ethnography and Education: Theory, Methodology, and Ethics

ISBN-13: 9781138631960 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 185 str.

Katie Fitzpatrick; Stephen May

Opis

The important contribution of this international methodological and practical guide to doing critical ethnographic work in education settings is its original approach to addressing the theory/method interface in relation to current concerns of social justice and (in)equality in education, along with their ethical implications. It takes a broad view of education as including both educational institutions as well as community education and the learning that goes on in public spaces, families and other out-of-school contexts. Drawing throughout on existing critical ethnographic work as exemplars and including vignettes of the intersection of theory, method and educational practice(s), the book accomplishes two key aims: it provides an overarching thematic and historical overview of critical ethnography in education, and at the same time addresses contemporary issues of power and inequality, and their often complex intersectionality in education. The central premise is that connecting a theory-of-method and a method of theorizing that effectively interweaves social theory with and throughout the research process is essential to address the hard questions and challenges associated with key issues of social justice in education.

Recenzje

"This book is timely, inclusive and inviting to read. Essential reading for postgraduate research students who are interested in ethnography and critical research."

--Patti Lather, Emeritus Professor, The Ohio State University, USA

"Fitzpatrick and May have crafted a volume that cultivates courage, theorizing, and provocation; a volume designed to accompany novice and experienced researchers, with joy and tears, insight and incite; a volume that documents and theorizes struggles on the ground, in the classroom, entrenched in community life, and held in bodies. They encourage us to reflect on why we are asking THESE questions, and then to chronicle the wounds and also the rich, sensual forms of resistance, imagination, the going on living that young people engage in the midst.

"This volume is a sensual invitation to critical ethnography where theory is sutured to methodology; where interrogation of power is the project; an antidote to neoliberal speed up research, and a seductive call to slow - deep - critical inquiry, rooted in relationships, stitched in theory and designed to reveal and provoke the radical imagination for what else is possible."

-- Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Critical Psychology, Gender/Women's Studies and Urban Education, The Graduate Center, CUNY, USA, and Visiting Professor at the University of South Africa

Spis treści

1. Reimagining Critical Ethnography 2. Critical Ethnography as Methodological Guide: Some Key Tenets 3. Working the Theory (and Context) in Critical Ethnography 4. Considering Ethical Practices in Critical Ethnographic research 5. Being and Doing Critical Ethnography: Ethnographic Writing and Field/Work 6. Language, Race/ism, and In/Equity in Education: Critical Ethnographic Approaches 7. Gender, sexuality and (critical) education ethnography 8. Getting lost