Ethnographic Methods in Education

Dr Sara Delamont, DSc Econ, AcSS. read Social Anthropology at Girton College Cambridge, did her PhD at Edinburgh, and lectured at Leicester before moving to Cardiff in 1976. She was the first woman to be President of BERA (the British Education Research Association) and the first woman Dean of Social Sciences at Cardiff. She has done ethnographies in schools, and other settings where teaching and learning take place such as operatic master classes and martial arts studios. With Paul Atkinson she is the Founding Editor of Qualitative Research, and is the author of fourteen books.

• VOLUME ONEPART ONE: HISTORICAL CONTEXTOur Educational Emphases in Primitive Perspective - Margaret MeadAnthropology and Education - Theodore Brameld and Edward SullivanAnthropological Approaches to the Study of Education - Peter SindellThe Two Traditions in Educational Ethnography - Sara Delamont and Paul AtkinsonSociology and Anthropology ComparedRethinking School Ethnographies of Colonial Settings - Douglas FoleyA Performance Perspective of Reproduction and ResistanceClassroom Ethnography - Martyn HammersleyPART TWO: THEORETICAL CONTEXTS On the Analogy between Culture Acquisition and the Ethnographic Method - Jacquetta Hill BurnettWhere We Are and Where We Might Go - Fred GearingSteps toward a General Theory of Cultural TransmissionsAn Anthropological Framework for Studying Education - Thomas LaBellePART THREE: METHODOLOGICAL DIVERSITYThe Use of Ethnographic Techniques in Educational Research - Stephen WilsonEthnographic Techniques and the Study of an Urban School - Ray RistCriteria for an Ethnographic Approach to Research in Schools - Harry WolcottCCCS Gas! - Andy Hargreaves and Martyn HammersleyPolitics and Science in the Work of the Centre of Contemporary Cultural StudiesEthnographic and Qualitative Research Design and Why It Doesn′t Work - Kathryn Borman, Margaret LeCompte and Judith GoetzPART FOUR: THE FAMILIARITY PROBLEMFirst Days in the Field - Blanche GeerConfessions of a ′Trained′ Observer - Harry WolcottAll too Familiar? A Decade of Classroom Research - Sara DelamontRoger Harker and Schönhausen - George Spindler and Louise SpindlerFrom Familiar to Strange and Back againMaking the Familiar Strange - Susan ParmanThe Anthropological Dialogue of George and Louise SpindlerReflecting on the Reflections - John SingletonWhere Did We Come from? Where Are We Going?Difficult Collective Deliberations - Hervé VarenneAnthropological Notes toward a Theory of EducationVOLUME TWOPART ONE: EDUCATIONAL SETTINGSSocial Control and Schooling - Kathryn BormanPower and Process in Two Kindergarten SettingsCeremony, Rites and Economy in the Student System of an American High School - Jacquetta Hill Burnett Backward Countryside, Troubled City - Deborah Reed-Danahay and Kathryn Anderson-Levitt′Burned Like a Tattoo′ - Sherry OrtnerHigh School Social Categories and ′American Culture′Understanding Inequality in Schools - Hugh MehanThe Contribution of Interpretive StudiesAccessing, Waiting, Plunging in, Wondering and Writing - Peter MagoldaRetrospective Sense-Making of FieldworkConstructing Ethnographic Relationships - Tom Cavanagh Reflections on Key Issues and Struggles in the FieldTeachers, Teaching and Educational Exclusion - Analía Meo and Andrew ParkerPupil Referral Units and Pedagogic PracticeTeaching Lies - Colin SamsonThe Innu Experience of Schooling LondonThe Teachers They All Had Their Pets - Wendy Luttrell Concepts of Gender, Knowledge and PowerIn Cold Blood - Paul AtkinsonBedside Teaching in a Medical SchoolLearning through the Breach - Lanita Jacobs-HueyLanguage Socialization among African American CosmetologistsBecoming a Firefighter - Matthew DesmondYou Have to Get Hit a Couple of Times - Robert PetroneThe Role of Conflict in Learning How to ′Be′ a SkateboarderThe Military Academy as an Assimilating Institution - Sanford DornbuschVOLUME THREEPART ONE: EDUCATIONAL CONTENT′Creative Solutions′ and ′Fibbing Results′ - Wolff-Michael Roth and G Michael BowenEnculturation in Field EcologySocial Class and School Knowledge - Jean AnyonPupils, Recipe Knowledge, Curriculum and the Cultural Production of Class, Ethnicity and Patriarchy - George RiseboroughA Critique of One Teacher′s PracticesIn the Beginning Was the Bunsen - Sara Delamont, John Beynon and Paul AtkinsonCulture, Schooling and the Politics of Class Identity in an Andalucian Town - Richard MaddoxThe ′Hidden Curriculum′ of a West African Boarding School - Vandra MasemannSpeaking of Sound - Thomas Porcello Language and the Professionalization of Sound-Recording Engineers Preparing the Next Generation of Scientists - Robert CampbellThe Social Process of Managing StudentsTeaching ′Race′ at Medical School - Warwick AndersonSocial Scientists on the MarginMen in the Kitchen - Tony CoxonNotes from a Cookery ClassOccupational Aesthetics - Gary FineHow Trade School Students Learn to CookThe Madam as Teacher - Barbara HeylThe Training of House ProstitutesThe Art of Memory - Dale EickelmanIslamic Education and Its Social ReproductionThe Making of Warriors - Katerina AgostinoMen, Identity and Military Culture Deconstructing Masculinity in the English Classroom - Wayne MartinoA Site for Reconstituting Gendered SubjectivityThe Ninjas, the X-Men and the Ladies - Anne Haas Dyson Playing with Power and Identity in an Urban Primary School′I′m Your Teacher, I′m Brazilian!′ - Claudio de Campos Rosario, Neil Stephens and Sara Delamont Authenticity and Authority in European Capoeira VOLUME FOURPART ONE: EDUCATIONAL PARTICIPANTSStudent Social Class and Teachers′ Expectations - Ray RistThe Self-Fulfilling Prophecy in Ghetto EducationInteraction and Adaption in Two Negro Kindergartens - Carol TalbertGender Differences and Anti-School Boys - John AbrahamHempies and Squeaks, Truckers and Cruisers - Stuart PalonskyA Participant Observer Study in a City High SchoolBlack Students′ School Success - Signithia Fordham and John Ogbu′Coping with the Burden of Acting White′′I Didn′t Do Nothin′′ - Frances Vavrus and Kim-Marie ColeThe Discursive Construction of School SuspensionIn the Eye of the Chicken - T E WoronovHierarchy and Marginality among Beijing′s Migrant School ChildrenExpulsion in Context - Audrey LambartA School as a System in ActionThe Career of the Chicago Public Schoolteacher - Howard BeckerControl and Consciousness in the College - Michael WalkerStudent Teaching as Initiation into the Teaching Profession - Fay HeadThe ′Hidden Pedagogy′ and Its Implications for Teacher Training - Martyn DenscombeTeacher, Teach Thyself - Mark DressmanTeacher Research as Ethnographic PracticeDegrees of Distance between Teachers and Parents in Urban France - Kathryn Anderson-LevittUsing Gender to Preserve Tracking′s Status Hierarchy - Amanda DatnowThe Defensive Strategy of Entrenched Teachers