Selected Bibliography

EDUC 7346: Ethnographic Methods in Educational Research
Spring, 2000

Professor Margaret Eisenhart

These references are listed for your information. **Double asterisks indicate books that are required for the course. They can be purchased at the Bookstore. A packet of articles will also be available for checking out at the Education Equity Library (344 Educ. Bldg.).


Agar, Michael H. The Professional Stranger (New York: Academic Press, 1980).

Annual Review of Sociology.

Anthropology and Education Quarterly.


Atkinson, Paul. Understanding Ethnographic Texts. (Newbury Park, CA: Sage, 1992).

Barley, Nigel. The Innocent Anthropologist: Notes from a Mud Hut (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1983).

Bruyn, Severyn T. "The Methodology of Participant Observation," Human Organization, 22 (1963), No. 3.

Cook, Thomas D. and Reinhardt, Charles S. Qualitative and Quantitative Methods in Evaluation Research (Beverly Hills, CA: Sage, 1979).

Crane, Julia and Angrosino, Michael. Field Projects in Anthropology. A Student Handbook (Morristown, NJ: General Learning Press, 1974).

Denzin, Norman. The Research Act (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1978; 1989).

Denzin, Norman and Lincoln, Yvonna, Eds. Handbook of Qualitative Research (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994).

Eisenhart, Margaret and Borko, Hilda. Designing Classroom Research: Themes, Issues, and Struggles (Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1993).

Ellis, Carolyn and Bochner, Arthur. (Eds.) Composing Ethnography: Alternative Forms of Qualitative Writing (Thousand Oaks, CA: AltaMira Press, 1996).

Filstead, William J., Ed. Qualitative Methodology (Chicago: Markham Publishing, 1970).

Gay, John and Cole, Michael. The New Mathematics and an Old Culture (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1967).

Goetz, Judith and LeCompte, Margaret. Ethnography and Qualitative Design in Educational Research (New York: Academic Press, 1984).

Heath, Shirley Brice. Ways with Words. Language, Life, and Work in Communities and Classrooms (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983).

Holsti, Ole R. Content Analysis for the Social Sciences and Humanities (Reading, MA: Addison-Wesley, 1969).

Human Organization (journal).

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography.

Kaplan, David, and Manners, Robert A. Culture Theory (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1972).

Kerlinger, Fred. Foundations of Behavioral Research, 2nd Edition (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973).

**Kleinman, Sherryl. Opposing Ambitions: Gender and Identity in an Alternative Organization (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996).

Lamphere, Louise (Ed.), Structuring Diversity: Ethnographic Perspectives on the New Immigration (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992).

LeCompte, Margaret, Preissle, Judith and Millroy, Wendy, Eds. The Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education (San Diego, CA: Academic Press, 1992).

Lofland, John. Doing Social Life: The Qualitative Study of Human Interaction in Natural Settings (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1976).

Marcus, George E. and Fischer, Michael M.J. Anthropology as Cultural Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986).

Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa (New York: William Morrow and Company, 1973 edition).

Mind, Culture, and Activity (journal).

Morgan, D. Focus Groups as Qualitative Research (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1988).

Naroll, Raoul and Cohen, Ronald, eds. A Handbook of Method in Cultural Anthropology (New York: Columbia University Press, 1974).

Pelto, P.J. and G.H. Pelto. Anthropological Research: The Structure of Inquiry (Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1978).

**Riessman, Catherine. Narrative Analysis (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1993).

Roberts, Joan I. and Sherrie Akinsanya, eds. Educational Patterns and Cultural Configurations (New York: David McKay, 1976).

Sage Series in Qualitative Research Methods (more than 40 volumes on various aspects of qualitative research; published by Sage Publications, Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA).

Sanjek, Roger, Ed. Fieldnotes: The Makings of an Anthropology (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1990).

Schratz, Michael, Ed. Qualitative Voices in Educational Research (London: Falmer Press, 1992).

Shaffir, William, Stebbins, Robert, and Tureqetz, Allan, Eds. Fieldwork Experience: Qualitative Approaches to Social Research (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1979).

Schensul, J.J., & LeCompte, M. (Eds.) (1999). Ethnographer's Tookit. 7 Volumes. Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press.

Shweder, Richard and Robert LeVine. Culture Theory (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984).

Smith, Louis, and Geoffrey, W. Complexities of an Urban Classroom (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1968).

Spindler, George D., Ed. Doing the Ethnography of Schooling (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1982).

Spradley, James P. The Ethnographic Interview (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979).

**Spradley, James P. Participant Observation (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1980).

Spradley, James P. and McCurdy, David W., Eds. The Cultural Experience: Ethnography in Complex Societies(Chicago: Science Research Associates, Inc., 1972).

Strauss, Anselm. Qualitative Analysis for Social Scientists (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1987).

**VanMaanen, John. Tales of the Field: On Writing Ethnography (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1988).

Wolcott, Harry. The Art of Fieldwork (Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira Press, 1995).

Wolcott, Harry. Man in the Principal's Office (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1973).

Wolcott, Harry. Transforming Qualitative Data (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1994).

**Wolcott, Harry. Writing Up Qualitative Research (Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1990).





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