Title: Ethnography in educational evaluation /
Authors: Fetterman, David M.
Date: 1984
Publisher: Sage Publications,
Physical description: 248 p. ; 23 cm.
Language: English
LC classification: L
Abstract: The progress that ethnographies have been making in educational evaluation and how ethnography has adapted to the educational sphere is analysed in this book. A diverse selection of case studies illustrates the intricacies of the issues and concerns involved in this process of adaptation. The book is divided into three sections. The first presents an overview of the state-of-the-art and a discussion of ethnographic techniques in evaluation research. A series of illustrative case studies of ethnographic evaluation are explored and examined in the second section. The case studies include national studies as well as local and international level studies. The final section addresses theoretical and ethical dilemmas in ethnographic evaluation. --From publisher's description.
Contents: Doing ethnographic educational evaluation ; Ethnography in educational research : the dynamics of diffusion / David M. Fetterman -- Ethnographic data collection in evaluation research / Margaret D. LeCompte and Judith P. Goetz -- Multisite qualitative policy research : some design and implementation issues / William A. Firestone and Robert E. Herriott -- Federal bucks for local change : on the ethnography of experimental schools / Donald A. Messerschmidt -- Multimethod policy research : a case study of structure and flexibility / Allen G. Smith and Albert E. Robbins -- Ethnography as evaluation : hearing-impaired students in the mainstream / Martha K. Hemwall -- Evaluation, ethnography, and the concept of culture : disadvantaged youth in an Israeli town / Harvey E. Goldberg -- Ethnographers sans ethnography : the evaluation compromise / Harry F. Wolcott -- Guilty knowledge, dirty hands, and other ethical dilemmas : the hazards of contract research / David M. Fetterman.
Subject headings (LCSH): Education--Research--Evaluation; Educational anthropology.; Ethnology--Methodology--Evaluation.