Ethnography is coming to be much discussed in education. A definition of ethnography is, however, an elusive and complicated question. Anthropologists do not themselves have a unified conception of ethnography, especially of ethnography in relation to the study of institutions of our own society, such as education. One difficulty with the notion…

Posits the need for a study of language, equivalent to linguistic ethnography, addressed to institutions in our own society, such as education. Discusses the problems and implications of this type of language study in relation to our own cultural views on language and the role of language in education. (Author/GC)

The term "educational ethnology" suggests an anthropological approach to schools. This research approach would be cumulative with regard to individual schools, would compare similarities and differences among schools, would entail the mutual participation of anthropologists and members of the schools studied, and could remedy limitations of much…