Critical Ethnography of Education

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Examines the nature of ethnography as a standard tool of investigation in describing, understanding, and explaining the behavior of individuals. Uses ethnography as a tool to examine and explore public school classrooms and teaching practice from a critical pedagogy perspective. Students will understand the complexity of human learning by making familiar the activities of “other” people and thus, make “strange” our own familiar teaching/learning practices when placed against the “eyes” of other people.