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Not Seeing the Forest for the Trees: The Failures of Synthesis for the Desegregation Ethnographies.
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Noblit, George W. – 1982
The failure to attain a true synthesis of six ethnographic studies of interracial education in desegregated schools is examined. Detailed individual descriptions of desegregation processes were yielded but the failure of summary attempts is attributed to the lack of a theory of social explanation appropriate to interpretive social science, and a…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Cultural Influences, Elementary Secondary Education, Ethnography