Doing a doctorate in educational ethnography / edited by Geoffrey Walford.

Includes bibliographical references.

Preface / Geoffrey Walford -- Introduction: The Doctoral Experience / Geoffrey Walford -- On the Doctoral Endeavour / Ghazala Bhatti -- Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Researching Children's Sexual Cultures in the Primary School / Emma Renold -- Learning on the Job: Micropolitics and Identity Work in Teacher/Doctoral Student Research / Shereen Benjamin -- Jet-Setting Postgrad -- Ethnographic Research in Two Countries / Franziska Vogt -- It's a White Knuckle Ride: Reflections from the Ph.D. Experience / Lesley Pugsley -- Method in the Messiness: Experiencing the Ethnographic Ph.D. Process / Geoff Troman -- Pressures, Problems and the Ph.D. Process: Tales from the 'Training Ground' / Andrew Parker -- The Novice Researcher: Expectation Meets Reality / Karen Johannesen Brock -- Alone in a Crowd or Going Native? A Doctoral Student's Experience / Gill O'Toole -- The Influences of Personal Biography on the Doctoral Research Process / Caroline Hudson -- Researching the Ineffable -- That which cannot be Expressed in Words / John Lilly.

"This book draws together a series of semi-autobiographical reflexive accounts of the process of doing a doctorate using educational ethnography. The individual studies include research into school, effectiveness, the experiences of Asian teenagers, sexual cultures in the primary school, mature students on access courses, primary school management, the experiences of children with special educational needs, teachers' work intensification, the family and school experiences of year 9 students and a youth training programme within English professional football. The range of topics shows how import ethnographic work has become in education."--BOOK JACKET.