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Jipson, Janice; And Others – 1995
This book describes several projects addressing experiences as women educators in defining the positional perspectives related to the understanding and reconceptualization of teaching and curriculum. Each project faces the dilemma of imposition in the authors' work with student teachers, teenage mothers, children of color, community members, and…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Females, Feminism, Interaction
Reynolds, David, Ed.; And Others – 1994
This book offers an analysis and summary of school effectiveness research. The book reviews the history and "state of the art" knowledge in the field, with a look at the international research base; reviews those research practices in terms of design, data collection, and data analysis; and outlines some creative new directions for the…
Descriptors: Classroom Observation Techniques, Educational Research, Effective Schools Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Fishman, Andrea – 1988
Using a descriptive personal narrative that marks ethnographic research, this book looks at literacy education in the Amish culture and considers the implications that this perspective reveals for mainstream education. Divided into 12 chapters, the book chronicles the life of an Amish family, the Fishers, focusing specifically on the attitudes…
Descriptors: Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context, Ethnic Groups, Ethnography
Jackson, Philip W.; And Others – 1993
This book offers a generalized way of examining the moral significance of what occurs in classrooms, with a focus on analyzing classroom interactions from a symbolic/expressive point of view. The book's ideas were derived from the Moral Life of Schools Project, a 2-year study that investigated the ways in which moral considerations permeate the…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Observation Techniques, Classroom Techniques
Markham, Annette N. – 1998
This book focuses on what it feels like and what it means to spend substantial portions of one's everyday life in the chat rooms, support groups, and virtual communities of cyberspace. Interviewing heavy users online, and becoming one herself, the author creates and ethnographic site for inquiring into the meanings of life online, a place where…
Descriptors: Communication (Thought Transfer), Computer Mediated Communication, Ethnography, Evaluation Methods
Download full textCarlsen, G. Robert; Sherrill, Anne – 1988
Drawing on thousands of "reading autobiographies," in which generations of students wrote about their experiences with reading, this book investigates what makes young people want to read. Chapters include: (1) Growing with Books; (2) Learning To Read; (3) Literature and the Human Voice; (4) Reading Habits and Attitudes: When, Where, and…
Descriptors: Autobiographies, Elementary Secondary Education, Family Influence, Librarians
