This book tells the methodological tale of a long term critical ethnography with a midwestern school district whose new language learning, transnational population was increasing.

Autorentext

Barbara Dennis is a peace and social justice activist, and critical educational ethnographer. She is a professor of qualitative inquiry in the Inquiry Methodology program at Indiana University s, School of Education. She regularly publishes on feminist ethnography, critical participatory ethics, and methodological theory.

Inhalt

List of Figures - List of Tables - Preface - Acknowledgments - Theory, Practices and Politics in Using the Label Critical : Naming Matters - We: Complex Relationships at the Slash of Insider/Outsider Dynamics -Ethics of Being With/In - Same over Time? An Historical Context Written by Dini Metro-Roland - "Hispanics are the New Niggers" and Other Monocultural Myths: Narrative Reconstructions - Methodologies of Possibility: Theatre of the Oppressed as Transformation - "The times they are a-changin' " - Walking With Strangers.