Ethnography and Schools

Enrique T. Trueba is the author of Latinos Unidos and editor of Immigrant Voices. He has published a number of books and articles on cultural and linguistic diversity, immigrant children, and resiliency. Dr. Trueba is the RubZn E. Hinojosa Regents' Professor Emeritus in Education, University of Texas, Austin. He was recently elected to the National Academy of Education. Yali Zou is professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Cultural Studies and director of the Asian American Studies Center at the University of Houston. She has published a number of articles and books on ethnic identity, immigration and multicultural issues.

• Chapter 1 The Collusion of Illusion and How to Get People to Tell You What They Don't KnowChapter 2 Ethnography? Or Educational Travel Writing?Chapter 3 The Destructive Desire for a Depoliticized Ethnographic Methodology: Response to Harry F. WolcottChapter 4 The Hidden History of Praxis Theory within Critical Ethnography and the Criticalism/Postmodernism ProblematicChapter 5 Rethinking Critical Theory and Qualitative ResearchChapter 6 Critical Ethnography in the Postcritical MomentChapter 7 The Challenge of Urban EthnographyChapter 8 Methodological Challenges of Critical Ethnography: Insights from Collaborations on an Idigenous Counter NarrativeChapter 9 Adaptive Strategies of a Chinese ImmigrantChapter 10 Stories and Structures of Persistence: Ethnographic Learning Through Research and Practice in Asian American StudiesChapter 11 The Class Clown: A School LiminarChapter 12 Critical Ethnography and Community Change

Provide readers with an overview of the research trajectory followed by particular researchers and the intersection of theory, method, advocacy, and the role of self and other in critical ethnography.