Focuses on identity and agency in a variety of social institutions in educational ethnography. The contributors explore these themes in a range of international contexts. They demonstrate the capacity of educational ethnography to provide accounts of participants' perspectives and understandings to highlight the agency of educational subjects.
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Series Preface. Introduction. (G. Troman). A Relational Approach on Children in the City: The Importance of Public Space, Non-Places and Ephemeral Relationships for Learning. (R. Soenen). The Construction of Identity on the Internet: A Study of Swedish Young People's Self-Presentation in a Web Community. (F. Moinian). God's Gypsy and God's Enforcer: The Educational Significance of Constructions of Motherhood and Mother-Daughter Relations. (J. Donnell Johnson). How Students, The Home and the School Mediate Issues Related on Home And School: A Dynamic Of Distance? (C. Hudson). An Ethnographic Study of Gender Differences: Racial Integration in South African Secondary Schools. (J. Klaas). Why Can't We Just Do Math? Exploring the Tensions Within the In-Between Space of a Culturally Responsive Curriculum. (J. Parker Webster, J. Lipka). New Aims and Old Problems in Swedish Schools: Flexibility, Freedom of Choice and Self-Reliance in Learning as Part of Social Reproduction. (M. Dovemark, D. Beach). Labs and the Quality of Learning in School Science: Schools, Labs and Creativity). (D. Beach). The Restructuring of Swedish Adult Education : The Involvement of Economists and Politicians in Education Policy. (M. Carlson). Through the Looking Glass and what Ethnography Finds There: Critical Insights into the New Deal for Young People's Voluntary Sector Option. (G. Mitchell). 'I Go To Get Away from the Cockroaches': Educentricity and the Politics of Education in Prisons. (A. Wilson). About the Authors.
