Ethnography and education policy across the Americas / edited by Bradley A.U. Levinson [and others].

Papers from the Eighth Interamerican Symposium on Ethnographic Educational Research, held Oct. 1999 in Bloomington, Ind.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Third in the series "Sociocultural Studies of Educational Policy Formation and Appropriation," this volume brings together scholars from North America, South America, and Europe to examine the relationship between ethnographic research and educational policy.

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