Critical Ethnography and Education

Katie Fitzpatrick is an Associate Professor and Head of School in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research and teaching are focused on health education, physical education, and sexuality education, as well as critical ethnographic and poetic research methods. Stephen May is Professor of Education in Te Puna Wānanga (School of Māori and Indigenous Education) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an international authority on language rights, language policy, bilingual education, and critical multiculturalism, as well as having a longstanding interest in critical ethnography.

• 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

"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