Introduction: Schooling the Imagination
Reading Ethnography, Writing Ethnography
Ethnography by Design, Ethnography by Accident
Into the Educational ¿Field¿: Relationships, Reciprocities and Responsibilities
Being, Seeing, Writing: The Role of Fieldnotes
New Times, New Ethnographies
What Do I Do Now? Making Ethnographic Meaning
Ethnography that Makes a Difference
Writing Again: Communicating Ethnographic Insights
Conclusion: Being an Everyday Ethnographer
Bibliography
Index

An accessible guidebook to the different approaches taken by ethnographers studying education. Part of our brand new series on Education Research published in association with BERA.

David Mills is Associate Professor (Pedagogy and the Social Sciences) at the University of Oxford's Department of Education and Fellow of Kellogg College. He directs the Grand Union ESRC-funded doctoral training partnership, an Oxford-led collaboration with Open University and Brunel University London. Trained in anthropology, he has published work on disciplinarity, higher education policy, doctoral education, and African universities. His current interests include the politics of higher education capacity building and the challenges of collaborative research. His books include Ethnography and Education (SAGE, 2013), Difficult Folk: A Political History of Social Anthropology (Berghahn, 2008), and the coedited African Anthropologies: History, Practice, Critique (Zed, 2006).