Summary
Contents
This Fourth Edition of Thomas A. Schwandt’s one-of-a-kind guide to the terms and phrases that help shape the origins, purpose, logic, meaning, and methods of the practices known as qualitative inquiry features 20 additional terms as well as a restructured Reader’s Guide. Key references have been updated and select terms and phrases from previous editions have been reorganized and greatly expanded. Together, the dictionary entries provide a guide to the methodological and epistemological concepts and theoretical orientations of qualitative inquiry. This unique resource is ideal for readers who are navigating various perspectives on qualitative inquiry, working on a qualitative dissertation, or are launching their own investigations into the issues covered.
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Educational Ethnography
This is one of the areas in which and means by which qualitative studies are undertaken. Educational ethnography encompasses participation observation research and field studies in and on educational institutions and settings. The roots of this work lie largely in the tradition of cultural anthropology in the U.S. and fieldwork sociology in Britain.
Key References
Delamont, S., & Atkinson, P. Fighting Familiarity: Essays on Education and Ethnography. Cresskill, NJ: Hampton Press, 1995.
Gordon, T, Holland, J., & Lahelma, E. “Ethnographic Research in Educational Settings,” in P. Atkinson, A. Coffey, S. Delamont, J. Lofland, & L. Lofland, eds., Handbook of Ethnography. London: Sage, 2001.
Hammersley, M. Classroom Ethnography: Empirical and Methodological Essays. Milton Keynes, UK: Open University Press, 1990.
Spindler, G., ed. Doing the Ethnography of Schooling: Educational Anthropology ...