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Abstract

“Harry Wolcott uses fifty years of experience to take the reader inside the process of constructing an ethnographic study, offering a wealth of lessons from one of the masters of the genre”. This is indeed a concise description by the publisher. The text is constructed around the author’s five major studies. Wolcott thus gives a unique contribution to the field of ethnography as he presents some critical components of ethnography in his desire to share with us readers the results of his career-long search for the essence of ethnography. The book is divided into eight chapters. I give a critical review of the book, attempting to present the subject matter to potential readers, while drawing on its strengths and weaknesses.

Keywords

Ethics, Ethnography, Qualitative Research, Serendipity

Author Bio(s)

Dr. Denise Mifsud, a Deputy Head at a further education institution in Malta, has very recently been awarded her PhD by the University of Stirling. Research areas of interest include educational policy analysis, generation and implementation; leadership theories, with a particular interest in educational leadership; school networks and educational reforms; power relations; Foucauldian theory; Actor-Network theory, as well as qualitative research methods, with a particular focus on narrative, as well as creative and unconventional modes of data representation. Correspondence regarding this review can be addressed directly to: Denise Mifsud at E-mail: dmenglishteacher@gmail.com

Publication Date

5-4-2015

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Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 4.0 International License.

DOI

10.46743/2160-3715/2015.2130

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