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Critical Ethnography in the Study
of Comparative Education
VANDRA LEA MASEMANN
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MASEMANN
Sociological Approaches
4Jerome Karabel and A. H. Halsey, Power and Ideology in Education (New York: Oxford Univer-
sity Press, 1977).
5 A. R. Radcliffe-Brown, Structure and Function in Primitive Society (London: Cohen Sc West,
1964), p. 180.
6 Archie Mafeje, "The Problem of Anthropology in Historical Perspective: An Inquiry into the
Growth of the Social Sciences, Canadian Journal of African Studies 10 (1976): 313.
7 Ibid.
2 February 1982
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CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Anthropological Approaches
8 Bottomore, p. 30.
9 Edward B. Tylor, Primitive Culture (London: Murray, 1871).
10 E.g., the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement studies (see
Comparative Education Review, vol. 18 [June 1974]).
" Karabel and Halsey, pp. 12-16.
"2 Christopher Jencks et al., Inequality: A Reassessment of the Effect of Family and Schooling in
America (New York: Basic, 1972).
"13 James Frazer, The Golden Bough (New York: Macmillan, 1928).
"4 Radcliffe-Brown; Bronislaw Malinowski, "The Group and the Individual in Functional Analy-
sis," American Journal of Sociology 44 (1939): 938-64.
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4 February 1982
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CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Interpretative Approaches
24 Michael Banton, ed., The Relevance of Models for Social Anthropology (Lo
1964).
25 Foley, p. 313.
26Karl Mannheim, Essays on the Sociology of Knowledge (London: Routledge & Kegan Paul,
1952); Thomas S. Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Chicago: University of Chicago
Press, 1970).
27 Karabel and Halsey, p. 49.
28 Richard Heyman, "Comparative Education from an Ethnomethodological Perspective," Com-
parative Education 15 (1979): 241-49.
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MASEMANN
6 February 1982
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CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY
"33 Margaret Archer, Social Origins of Educational Systems (London and Bev
Sage, 1979), pp. 567-68.
"34 Richard J. W. Selleck, English Primary Education and the Progressives 1
Routledge &c Kegan Paul, 1972).
35 Geoff Whitty, "Schools and the Problem of Radical Educational Change," in
pp. 112-37.
36 Archer, chap. 8.
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8 February 1982
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CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY
Critical Approaches
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10 February 1982
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CRITICAL ETHNOGRAPHY
48 Remi Clignet and Philip Foster, The Fortunate Few (Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University
Press, 1966).
49 See n. 33 above.
50 Rachel Sharp and Anthony Green, Education and Social Control (London: Routledge &c Kegan
Paul, 1975).
51 Paul Willis, Learning to Labour: How Working Class Kids Get Working Class Jobs (West-
mead: Saxon House, 1977).
52 Ibid., p. 121.
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MASEMANN
Critical Ethnography
The final topic for discussion in this essay is the specific utility to the
study of comparative education of critical ethnography. What particular
aspects of ethnography and critical perspectives are embodied in such an
approach?
53Michael Apple, "Curricular Form and the Logic of Technical Control: Building the Possessive
Individual," mimeographed (Madison: University of Wisconsin, 1979).
54 Christopher Lasch, The Culture of Narcissism (New York: Warner, 1979).
55 Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1966).
12 February 1982
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56 Willis, p. 194.
57 Ibid., p. 175.
51 See n. 45 above.
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14 February 1982
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