Ethnography and education policy across the Americas
By: edited by Bradley A.U. Levinson ... [et al.].
Contributors: Levinson, Bradley A., 1963-; Interamerican Symposium on Ethnographic Educational Research (8th : 1999 Bloomington, Ind.)
Series: Education policy in practice
Publisher: Praeger
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Westport, Conn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Educational anthropology -- America -- Congresses; Educational anthropology -- Cross-cultural studies -- Congresses
Genres: Congresses.; Cross-cultural studies
Notes: Papers from the Eighth Interamerican Symposium on Ethnographic Educational Research, held Oct. 1999 in Bloomington, Ind.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Constructing diversity and civility in the United States and Latin America: implications for ethnographic educational research / Elsie Rockwell; title: When policy moves fast, how long can ethnography take? / Geoffrey Walford; title: Contradictory logics in the social construction of teaching in Argentina: an ethnography of the notebook of professional performance / Graciela Batallán; title: Spatiotemporal fluidity and culturally relevant pedagogy in the Latino diaspora / Stanton Wortham and Margaret Contreras; title: The role of institutional education projects in the reconstruction of the school labyrinth / Rafael Ávila Peñagos and Marina Camargo Abello; title: Alternative educational projects: technical developments and political debate in the everyday workings of "nongraded schools" in Argentina / Ana Padawer; title: The role of ethnographic research in education policy: a trail to blaze / Etelvina Sandoval Flores; title: Education policy and ethnography: problems, prospects, and new directions / Patricia Medina Melgarejo; title: Perspective-taking in the practice-research gap: using ethnography to help schools see themselves / Peter Demerath; title: Workshop discussion: ethnography and policy-the state of the art / Participants in the eighth interamerican symposium; title: A teacher in transition: coming to terms with prior beliefs / Barbara Greybeck; title: Teaching an ethnographic vision as a way into policy? A Brazilian perspective on ethnography as a social control practice / Isabela Cabral Félix de Sousa.