Introduction 1

• In the past thirty years ethnography has grown from an emerging tradition in education research to one of the important research methods in the field. Impulses in this development have come from different national directions and disciplines. Predominant amongst them however has been influences from the UK and the USA and the disciplines of sociology (in the UK) and anthropology and sociology (in the USA) respectively. Following this, as discussed by Paul Atkinson (2005), the position has changed significantly. Ethnographic research has flourished, methodological reflection has grown. There is now extensive writing around matters of research methods and a need to return to some fundamental principles of ethnographic inquiry, along with a desire to describe and analyse the many modalities of ethnography that now exist. These developments have led to the publisher’s interest in creating the present volume and our desire to edit it. When responding to the interest of the publisher when editing the handbook we have tried to be open to new developments and challenges, whilst also being cautious, by locating these within a wider ethnographic framework. We want to both recognize and give space to intrinsic principles of order and explore new challenges and new ideas and practices. This means that both classic ideas in the ethnography of education, such as “grounded theory”, “triangulation” and “thick description” will be reviewed in various chapters, along with newer ways of trying to be faithful to the phenomena under investigation. In addition we acknowledge the need to respond to a range of new developments associated with globalization, mobility, technologies of communication and changes in concepts of culture........

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SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Sociologi -- Socialantropologi (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Sociology -- Social Anthropology (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences (hsv//eng)

SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP  -- Utbildningsvetenskap -- Pedagogik (hsv//swe)

SOCIAL SCIENCES  -- Educational Sciences -- Pedagogy (hsv//eng)

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