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,
Professor Sofia Marques da Silva, Porto University, Portuagal
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

Education and the commodity problem: Ethnographic investigations of creativity and performativity in Swedish school - Dennis Beach and Marianne Dovemark

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

How to do Educational Ethnography - Edited by Geoffrey Walford

Ritual and Identity: The staging and performing of rituals
in the lives of young people -
Christoph Wulf, Birgit Althans, Kathrin Audehm, Constanze Bausch, Michael Göhlich, Stephan Sting, Anja Tervooren, Monika Wagner-Willi, and Jörg Zirfas

Learner biographies and learning cultures: identity and apprenticeship in England and Germany
Michaela Brockmann

Learning care lessons: Literacy, love, care and solidarity, by Maggie Feeley

Fair and competitive? Critical perspectives on contemporary Nordic schooling, editors, Anne-Lise Arnesen, Elina Lahelma, Lisbeth Lundahl and Elisabet Öhrn

Identity and social interaction in a multi-ethnic classroom, by Ruth Barley

The postmodern professional: Contemporary learning practices, dilemmas and perspectives, edited by Karen Borgnakke, Marianne Dovemark and Sofia Marques da Silva

Troubling educational cultures in the Nordic countriesTouko Vaahtera, Anna-Maija Niemi, Sirpa Lappalainenand Dennis Beach

Arts and ethnography in a contemporary world: From learning to  social participation