Ethnography and Educational Policy Across the Americas

BRADLEY A.U. LEVINSON is Associate Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University.SANDRA L. CADE is Assistant Professor of Education, Olivet College, Michigan.ANA PADAWER is an instructor and researcher with the Program of Anthropology and Education, School of Philosophy and Letters, University of Buenos Aires. She is also as a researcher in the Ministry of Education of the city of Buenos Aires.ANA PATRICIA ELVIR is a doctoral candidate at Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

• Introduction by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Sandra L. Cade Looking Across Borders Constructing Diversity and Civility in the United States and Latin America by Elsie Rockwell Research Projects and Interpretation When Policy Moves Fast, How Long Can Ethnography Take? by Geoffrey Walford Contradictory Logics in the Social Construction of Teaching in Argentina: An Ethnography of the Notebook of Professional Performance by Gracia Batallan Spatiotemporal Fluidity and Culturaly Relevant Pedagogy in the Latino Diaspora by Stanton Wortham and Margaret Contreras The Role of Institutional Education Projects in the Reconstruction of the School Labyrinth by Rafael Avila Penagos and Marina Camargo Abello Alternative Educational Projects: Technical Developments and Political Debate in the Everyday Workings of "Nongraded" Schools in Argentina by Ana Padawer Position Statements and Discussions The Role of Ethnographic Research in Education Policy: A Trail to Blaze by Etelvina Sandoval Flores Education Policy and Ethnography: Problems, Prospects, Directions by Patricia Medina Melgarejo Perspective-Taking in the Practice-Research Gap: Using Ethnography to Help Schools See Themselves by Peter Demerath Workshop Discussion: Ethnography and Policy: The State of the Art by Participants in the 8th Interamerican Symposium A Teacher in Transition: Coming to Terms with Prior Beliefs by Barbara Greyback Teaching the Ethnographic Vision as a Way into Policy?: A Brazilian Perspective on Ethnography as a Social Control Practice by Isabela Cabral Felix de Sousa Commentary by Frederick Erickson