Ethnography and Education
The Ethnography and Education Book Series aims to publish a range of authored and edited collections including both substantive research projects and methodological texts and in particular we hope to include recent PhDs. Our priority is for ethnographies that prioritise the experiences and perspectives of those involved and that also reflect a sociological perspective with international significance. We are particularly interested in those ethnographies that explicate and challenge the effects of educational policies and practices and interrogate and develop theories about educational structures, policies and experiences. We value ethnographic methodology that involves long-term engagement with those studied in order to understand their cultures, that use multiple methods of generating data and that recognise the centrality of the researcher in the research process.

The editors welcome substantive proposals that seek to:
explicate and challenge the effects of educational policies and practices and
interrogate and develop theories about educational structures, policies and experiences,
highlight the agency of educational actors,
provide accounts of how the everyday practices of those engaged in education are instrumental in social reproduction.

The editors are
Professor Dennis Beach of Borås University, Sweden,
Bob Jeffrey of The Open University, (Commissioning Editor),
Professor Geoff Troman of Roehampton University and
Professor Geoffrey Walford of Oxford University.


Creative Learning: European Experiences edited by Bob Jeffrey

Researching education policy: Ethnographic experiences, Geoff Troman, Bob Jeffrey and Dennis Beach

The Commodification of Teaching and Learning - Dennis Beach and Marianne Dovemark

Performing English with a Post-Colonial Accent - Angeles Clemente and Michael Higgins

and forthcoming

How to do Educational Ethnography - Edited by Geoffrey Walford

Primary Teacher Identity, Career and Commitment - Geoff Troman

The Construction and Deconstruction of Social Capital: An Ethnography of Multi-Agency Working on an Early Years Project – Carl Bagley and Clare Ackerley

The Ethnographic Product: A Celebration of Representation - Edited by Carl Bagley