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PART ONE: OVERVIEW Doing Ethnographic Educational Evaluation - David M Fetterman Ethnography in Educational Research - David M Fetterman The Dynamics of Diffusion Ethnographic Data Collection in Evaluation Research - Margaret D Le Compte and Judith P Goetz PART TWO: CASE STUDIES Multisite Qualitative Policy Research - William A Firestone and Robert E Herriott Some Design and Implementation Issues Federal Bucks for Local Change - Donald A Messerschmidt On the Ethnography of Experimental Schools Multimethod Policy Research - Allen G Smith and Albert E Robbins A Case Study of Structure and Flexibility Ethnography as Evaluation - Martha K Hemwall Hearing-Impaired Students in the Mainstream Evaluation, Ethnography, and the Concept of Culture - Harvey E Goldberg Disadvantaged Youth in an Israeli Town PART THREE: THEORETICAL AND ETHICAL DILEMMAS Ethnographers sans Ethnography - Harry F Wolcott The Evaluation Compromise Guilty Knowledge, Dirty Hands, and Other Ethical Dilemmas - David M Fetterman The Hazards of Contract Research
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Andrew Lytle
reviewed Ethnography in educational evaluation on February 10, 2013
Ethnography in educational evaluation
I gave this three stars because, despite my urges to go find the author and shake him until his ears rang, it was extremely informative and I hard time putting it down. That said, reader beware: the author seems to go into researching this book with the knowledge that Japanese high school students were out-performing Americans in math and science and hoping to find that American schools were in fact "better," despite this statistic.
In my mind, American schools are typically bad at producing what they want: informed thinkers with a passion for democracy and the greater good. On the other hand, Japanese schools are excellent at producing what they want: adults who are going to go out into the world and serve their purpose. The rub lies in the fact that Americans think that the Japanese crush their childrens' souls in the process and the Japanese laugh at what some of our high schools call "math."
My original intent was to shake the author into a coma, but he mostly redeemed himself with this line, near the end of the book: "If the Japanese suffer from too much standardization and routine, American high schools suffer from lack of focus."
Of course, then his appendix dips into comparing suicide rates with the flux of the school year, so...
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