Cases Integrating Ethnography and Evaluation: Making Transformative, Intersectional, and Comparative Connections. Studies in Educational Ethnography

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Title: Cases Integrating Ethnography and Evaluation: Making Transformative, Intersectional, and Comparative Connections. Studies in Educational Ethnography
Language: English
Authors: Melissa Rae Goodnight, Rodney Hopson
Source: Studies in Educational Ethnography. 2025.
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Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 240
Publication Date: 2025
Document Type: Book
Collected Works - General
Descriptors: Ethnography, Social Justice, Data Collection, Minority Groups, Program Evaluation, Field Studies, Participant Observation, Indigenous Knowledge, Educational Research, Epistemology, Social Problems, Self Determination, Inquiry
ISSN: 1529-210X
1875-5186
Abstract: "Cases Integrating Ethnography and Evaluation" examines the connections between ethnography and evaluation in educational spaces, wrestling with pressing justice and equity issues in today's societies across the world. The book provides readers from different disciplines and practice areas with detailed accounts of evaluation and ethnographic practice. Contributing chapters employ contemporary ethnographic strategies for engaging people, collecting data, generating knowledge, and taking action to make a social impact. Concentrating on underrepresented and historically marginalized communities, authors describe evaluations that emphasize the use of fieldwork, participant observation, arts-based strategies, and Indigenous methods to explore the cultural and contextual specificity of educational spaces. Such evaluations pursue greater democracy and justice in educational policy, programs, and systems through forging trusting and reciprocal relationships with individuals and communities. The chapters situate inquiry in the contested histories and policies of contexts--as they are globally, nationally, and locally defined. Authors present productive fusions of interpretivist and transformative epistemologies, emphasizing both emic understandings and critical framings of social issues. Describing the pursuit of transformative work in collaboration with a diversity of people, these chapters ultimately investigate issues of equity, marginalization, self-determination, (mis)representation, and cultural sustainability in inquiry as well as in education.
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Entry Date: 2025
Access URL: https://bookstore.emerald.com/cases-integrating-ethnography-and-evaluation-hb-9781837081011.html
Accession Number: ED675847
Database: ERIC
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Abstract:"Cases Integrating Ethnography and Evaluation" examines the connections between ethnography and evaluation in educational spaces, wrestling with pressing justice and equity issues in today's societies across the world. The book provides readers from different disciplines and practice areas with detailed accounts of evaluation and ethnographic practice. Contributing chapters employ contemporary ethnographic strategies for engaging people, collecting data, generating knowledge, and taking action to make a social impact. Concentrating on underrepresented and historically marginalized communities, authors describe evaluations that emphasize the use of fieldwork, participant observation, arts-based strategies, and Indigenous methods to explore the cultural and contextual specificity of educational spaces. Such evaluations pursue greater democracy and justice in educational policy, programs, and systems through forging trusting and reciprocal relationships with individuals and communities. The chapters situate inquiry in the contested histories and policies of contexts--as they are globally, nationally, and locally defined. Authors present productive fusions of interpretivist and transformative epistemologies, emphasizing both emic understandings and critical framings of social issues. Describing the pursuit of transformative work in collaboration with a diversity of people, these chapters ultimately investigate issues of equity, marginalization, self-determination, (mis)representation, and cultural sustainability in inquiry as well as in education.
ISSN:1529-210X
1875-5186