Key Themes in the Ethnography of Education PDF

This is a beautifully written book that takes the reader to the heart of ethnography as experience. Readers can walk in the shoes of ethnographers who have travelled before them, and learn as they learned. Sara Delamont is an undisputed expert in both ethnography and education, and here illustrates she is also a tour de force in writing style. All the important ingredients for a recipe to make a good quality ethnography are here, and they are served up with relish!

- Karen OReilly, Loughborough University

This is a powerful, richly nuanced, evocative work

In the first study, key themes included how in the 1980s, preschool practice in China was being impacted by the single child family policy, in Japan by a falling birth ...