New Directions in Educational Ethnography : Shifts, Problems, and Reconstruction.

Front Cover -- New Directions in Educational Ethnography: Shifts, Problems, and Reconstruction -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction: New Directions in Educational Ethnography: Shifts, Problems, and Reconstruction -- Building on the Critical and Counterhemonic Vision of Ethnography in Education -- Building on the Spatial Turn in Educational Ethnography -- Layout of the Book Volume -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Against All Odds: The Ethnography of Hope among Haitian Youth in Difficult Circumstances -- Introduction -- Background: Perspectives on Aspirations of Youth in Difficult Circumstances -- Perspectives on Youth in Haiti -- The Ethnography of Hope among Disadvantaged Youth in Haiti -- Mobility -- Becoming Someone: Hopes for Personhood -- Identity beyond the Personal: Collective Aspirations and the Nation -- Conclusion: The Ethnography of Youth Figuring the Future -- Notes -- References -- Using Queer Theory to Read the Hushing of Boys' Reading: "A thought of a Method" of Queer Educational Ethnography -- Introduction -- Exploring Interpretive Approaches to Educational Narratives -- Ethnographic Traditions in Classrooms and in Child Development -- Queer and Transgender Approaches to Gender -- Using Queer Theory as a Framework for Seeing Gender and for Reading/Researching in Classrooms -- The Stories of David and José -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Where Machines Rant, Recite Poems, and Take Outrageous Selfies: An Ethnography of a Teachers' Facebook Group -- Introduction -- The Study -- The Facebook as a Research Site -- Conceptualizing Teachers Agency in Education Reform -- The Heavy Burden of K-12 Reform -- TFG Was Originally Meant for File Sharing -- Toiling at the Underbelly of Philippine Society -- Teacher Factor for Life! -- Teacher Are Nannies.

Low Regard because of Low IQ and Low English Proficiency -- Lamentations about Performance-Based Bonus -- We Are Not a Robot Nor a Carabao! -- Facebook Politics -- Discussion -- Teacher Derision -- Teachers' Hard Labor -- Business Model Education Reform -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Relying on Local Contexts to Foster and Thwart Black Student Academic Success: An Ethnographic Account of Teachers Fosterin... -- Literature Review -- Theoretical Framework -- Methods -- Data Collection -- Research Sites -- Participants and Selection Criteria -- Data Analysis -- Trustworthiness -- Findings: Teachers Relying on Local Contexts to Foster Academic Success -- A Systematic Exclusion of Blacks -- Working toward Equity -- Access Is Enough -- Conclusion and Implications -- Notes -- References -- The Emergence of Critical Presence Ethnography: Capturing the Ripples of Self in Educational Contexts -- Introduction -- Ethnography -- A Brief History -- Ethnography's Eurocentric and Colonizing Origins -- Critical Ethnography -- The Ethnographer, the Self, and Positionality -- The Emergence of Critical Presence Ethnography -- Critical Presence Ethnography in Educational Contexts -- Ayana's Critical Presence Reflection -- Stephen's Critical Presence Reflection -- A New Direction through Critical Presence -- References -- (Critical) Educational Ethnography: Methodological Premise and Pedagogical Objectives -- Educational Ethnography -- Critical Ethnography -- (Critical) Educational Ethnography: Premise and Essential Elements -- Essential and Defining Elements -- Articulation of a Critical Context -- Understanding and Defining Culture -- Relationship and Embeddedness -- Multiple Ways of Knowing -- Pedagogical Objectives, Opportunities, and Challenges -- Objective 1: Articulate Critical Context -- Objective 2: Understand and Define Culture.

Objective 3: Understand Relationship and Embeddedness -- Objective 4: Identify Multiple and Contextual Ways of Knowing -- Conclusion -- References -- A Critical Ethnographic Approach to Transforming Norms of Whiteness in Marginalized Parents' Engagement and Activism in Schools -- Race Consciousness in Parent Engagement: Leveraging CRT and CWS -- The Parent Mentor Program in Rivertown -- Redefining Parent Engagement, Involvement, and Activism -- Researcher Positionality -- Denise -- Marguerite -- Race-Conscious Positionality in a Multiracial Research Team -- Critical Ethnographic Methods -- "Getting Your Foot in the Door": Reinscribing Whiteness through Assimilation -- The Critical Juncture of Scholarship and Activism: Resisting Whiteness -- The Beginnings of Undoing Whiteness -- Discussion -- Notes -- References -- Ethnography as Subject, Ethnography as Object: Experimenting with Research in a College Writing Classroom -- Ethnography as Subject -- Literacy and Identity -- Action Research -- Ethnography in the College Classroom -- Failing to Succeed? An Ethnographic Experiment -- Ethnography as Object -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- Teaching through Discussion: A Mixed Qualitative Methods Study of Educator Facilitation Practices in a Small Group Learning... -- Problem and Contribution Statements -- Study Methods -- Positionality Statement -- Study Setting -- Informant Characteristics -- Study Design -- Study Procedures -- Data Sources and Data Collection -- Case Selection -- Analysis -- Units of Analysis -- Data Reduction and Coding -- Findings -- Balance Between Focus and Engagement -- Diversified Facilitation Practices -- Micro-Avenues of Facilitation -- Conclusion -- Implications for Teaching and Classroom Practice -- Implications for Mixed Qualitative Methods Research -- Limitations and Future Research -- Final Remarks -- Notes.

Acknowledgments -- References -- About the Authors -- Index.

The primary objective of Studies in Educational Ethnography is to present original research monographs based on ethnographic perspectives, and methodologies.

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