Abstract
Ethnographic methods are becoming increasingly prevalent in contemporary educational research. Critical Ethnography in Educational Research provides both a technical, theoretical guide to advanced ethnography--focusing on such concepts as primary data collection and system relationships--and a very practical guide for researchers interested in conducting actual studies.
Keywords
EthnographyEpistemologySociologyCritical ethnographyPhilosophyAnthropology
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- Year
- 1996
- Type
- article
- Volume
- 34
- Issue
- 02
- Pages
- 34-1057
- Citations
- 1579
- Access
- Closed
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Phil Francis Carspecken
(1996).
Critical ethnography in educational research: a theoretical and practical guide.
Choice Reviews Online
, 34
(02)
, 34-1057.
https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.34-1057
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- DOI
- 10.5860/choice.34-1057