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Abu El-Haj, Thea Renda; Ríos-Rojas, Anne; Jaffe-Walter, Reva – Curriculum Inquiry, 2017
In this paper, the authors focus on everyday narrations of the nation as they are taken up by educators "in schools" in the United States, Denmark and Spain. As the primary institutions within which children from im/migrant communities are incorporated into the nation-state, schools are the key sites within which young people learn the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Muslims, Immigrants, Ethnography
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Greteman, Adam J. – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2012
Exploring the lives of rural lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) youth and their identity work, Mary Gray's "Out in the Country: Youth, Media, and Queer Visibility in Rural America" offers one of the first ethnographic studies of queer rural life in the United States and their use of new media. Throughout, Gray provides…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Rural Areas, Homosexuality, Political Issues
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Brown, Anthony L. – Ethnography and Education, 2011
The intent of this paper is to show that while ethnographic research for decades has helped to challenge one-dimensional, deficit-oriented perspectives about Black males, this work has also helped to reproduce essentialised racial motifs. I define a racial motif as a central theme or story used to make sense of the social and educational…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Educational Experience, Males, Teaching Methods
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Chhuon, Vichet; Hudley, Cynthia – Anthropology & Education Quarterly, 2010
Research suggests that Cambodian students often endure conflicting ethnic stereotypes from larger society and their school and communities. We examine the ways in which Cambodian youth negotiated their ethnic identities in response to these stereotypes and argue that Cambodian students adopted, rejected, and affirmed certain ethnic identities in…
Descriptors: Urban Schools, Ethnicity, Cambodians, Ethnic Stereotypes
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Gorsevski, Ellen W.; Schuck, Raymond I.; Lin, Canchu – Western Journal of Communication, 2012
Using rhetorical analysis in the form of an autoethnographically informed biocritique, this study applies and expands the concept of rhetorical plasticity to examine the popular museum exhibit "Bodies: The Exhibition," which is arguably the most controversial of a series of contemporary museum exhibits that feature deceased human bodies…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Human Body, Non Western Civilization, Death
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Lincoln, Yvonna S.; Gonzalez y Gonzalez, Elsa M. – Qualitative Inquiry, 2008
Many non-Western and non-English-speaking scholars express the need for supporting a methodological approach that foregrounds the voices of nationals and locals (or indigenous peoples). Supporting this stance, Western scholars will reach out in democratic and liberatory ways that effect research collaboration, helping to foster social justice and…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Qualitative Research, Indigenous Populations, Comparative Analysis