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Erickson, Frederick – 1973
Ethnography as an inquiry process guided by a point of view rather than as a reporting process guided by a standard technique or set of techniques is the main point of this essay which suggests the application of Malinowski's theories and methods to an ethnology of the school, indicates reasons why traditional ethnography is inadequate to the…
Descriptors: Educational Anthropology, Ethnology, Field Studies, Institutions
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Feer, Michael – Human Organization, 1975
In the context of an anthropology curriculum, public high school students performed as informant-ethnographers of their own social milieu. Using the film and fieldwork techniques, students demonstrated that with training and sensitivity such studies could be more than simple academic exercises. (AUTHOR/NQ)
Descriptors: Educational Environment, Ethnology, High School Students, Research Methodology
Gilmore, Perry, Ed.; Glatthorn, Allan A., Ed. – 1982
The following articles on ethnography and education are presented: (1) "A Retrospective Discussion of the State of the Art in Ethnography in Education," by P. Gilmore and D. M. Smith; (2) "Ethnography in Education: Defining the Essentials," by S. B. Heath; (3) "The Structure of Classroom Events and Their Consequences for Student Performance," by…
Descriptors: Children, Classroom Research, Cultural Context, Educational Anthropology
Osmond, Marie W. – J Marriage Fam, 1969
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Ethnology, Family (Sociological Unit)
Schroder, Sherrie Brownstein – 1986
The twentieth century has been an era of rapid, world-wide industrialization. Very little is known about the psychological impact of this process, and traditional assessment methods which universalize Western values are largely inappropriate. A prime example of universalizing Western characteristics is Inkeles' and Smith's popular Modernity Scales…
Descriptors: Biographies, Change, Cross Cultural Studies, Cultural Context
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Anderson, James A.; And Others – 1979
Television's role within the familial setting is the subject of a research program being conducted at the Universities of Hartford, Texas, and Utah, proceeding on the premise that television functions within a variety of environmental influences, all of which act in varying combinations to produce a wide range of effects within viewers. The…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Communication Research, Cultural Context, Ethnography
Berlin, Brent – 1969
Criticism has been directed at a growing body of literature broadly referred to as ethnoscience, ethnosemantics, folk science, ethnographic semantics, and cognitive anthropology. Criticisms concern methodological and analytic aspects of ethnoscientific procedure, and the directions of ethnosemantic research from a theoretical point of view. The…
Descriptors: African Languages, Anthropology, Classification, Color
Valentine, Charles A. – 1970
The research in this paper explores the nature and operation of intergroup inequality, as well as means of its eventual elimination, by initiating an ethnography of a representative low-income urban Afro-American community through the method of in-resident participant-observation. Two primary hypotheses are tested. The first, which was predicted…
Descriptors: Biculturalism, Black Community, Black Culture, Blacks
Valentine, Charles A. – 1969
This study deals with selected ethnographic and other methods used in research on Afro-American communities in the United States. After a review of the conclusions of psychologists on Afro-American culture, it is contended that the best method of enquiry is that of ethnography, and that, even though the ethnographic method has been hitherto used,…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Biculturalism, Black Community, Black Culture
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Chilcott, John H. – Educational Researcher, 1992
Reviews nine titles in the subdiscipline of anthropology and education, which include collections of essays and ethnographic analyses. The works deal with anthropological perspectives on education; the methodology of ethnography; the ethnology of education; anthropological perspectives for educating minority populations; and perspectives on school…
Descriptors: Book Reviews, Cultural Context, Culture Conflict, Dropouts
Gilfillan, David P. – 1972
A large-scale study of the relationship between ethnocentrism and cultural relativism was made to evaluate the effects of an anthropology curriculum on students' levels of ethnocentrism. Its hypothesis is that ethnocentrism is modified by studying anthropology and, to a lesser extent, other social sciences. The design, execution, and analysis of…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Attitude Change, Cultural Context, Educational Research
Crane, Julia G.; Angrosino, Michael V. – 1974
This manual is an introduction to field techniques for undergraduate anthropology students. It describes 14 projects, each devoted to a traditional area of anthropological inquiry. A "method" or "data collecting tool" is suggested by which each topic may be investigated profitably. Project 1 describes a suitable beginning field assignment.…
Descriptors: Anthropology, Culture Contact, Educational Anthropology, Educational Media