The value of ethnography as a research method lies in its holistic view of the particular culture, cultural situation or cultural event under study.
Critical ethnography is fundamentally concerned with questions of education and inequality.
It seeks not only to describe conditions of inequality, but also aims to change the conditions it describes. This course will investigate the concerns of critical ethnography and explore the method of conducting and writing critical ethnography. Studies that explore the relationship between education and ethnicity, gender, class, race and minority languages will be read and discussed. For the most part it is Doctoral students writing an ethnographic thesis who take this course. Some Master's students who are writing a thesis take the course.