The Ethnographic Eye: Interpretive Studies of Education in China (Reference Books in International Education)

This collection of ethnographic studies of Chinese schooling aims to transport the reader into chinese schools and provide a picture of students and teachers as actors who practice culture. The case studies also provide a means by which ethnography is explored as a central methodological focus and concern. The book explores the meaning of ethnography, both in describing Chinese schools and in the broader context of the defined purposes and practices of research. This self-reflexive approach to school ethnography in China includes issues of cultural translation and the connections between the process of ethnographic work, the emergence of a text and the construction of a theory.