Global Educational Ethnographies

Catalog description

In this course, we will read a diversity of classic and contemporary ethnographies in order to evaluate the relationship between ethnographic methods, data analysis, and theory building. The first part of the course theorizes the method itself, analyzing the history or "genealogy" of ethnographic methods. The rest of the course examines several classic educational ethnographies that directly shaped the field as well as contemporary ethnographies engaging in critical debates about pertinent social, cultural, and political theories.