Ethnography in Education

Problematising ethnography and case study: reflections on using ethnographic techniques and researcher positioning

Parker‐Jenkins, M. (2016) · Ethnography & Education · doi:10.1080/17457823.2016.1253028 · Cited by 102

Qualitative research methods: approaches to qualitative data analysis

Mihas, P. (2022) · Elsevier eBooks · doi:10.1016/b978-0-12-818630-5.11029-2 · Cited by 148

Critical language teacher education: A duoethnography of teacher educators’ identities and agency

Banegas, D. L., & Gerlach, D. (2021) · System · doi:10.1016/j.system.2021.102474 · Cited by 79

Using ethnography in implementation research to improve nutrition interventions in populations

Tumilowicz, A., Neufeld, L. M., & Pelto, G. H. (2015) · Maternal and Child Nutrition · doi:10.1111/mcn.12246 · Cited by 72

Do Asian EFL teachers use humor in the classroom? A case study of Vietnamese EFL university teachers

Petraki, E., & Nguyen, H. H. P. (2016) · System · doi:10.1016/j.system.2016.08.002 · Cited by 68

Becoming a physical education teacher during formalised school placement: A rollercoaster of emotions

Alves, M., MacPhail, A., Queirós, P., & Batista, P. (2018) · European Physical Education Review · doi:10.1177/1356336x18785333 · Cited by 39

Qualitative data analysis in cross‐cultural projects

Troman, G., & Jeffrey, B. (2007) · Comparative Education · doi:10.1080/03050060701611904 · Cited by 47

Exploring the affective dimension of teachers’ work in alternative school settings

te Riele, K., Mills, M., McGregor, G., & Baroutsis, A. (2017) · Teaching Education · doi:10.1080/10476210.2016.1238064 · Cited by 36

Stateless in School: The ‘discomfort’ of Kurdish asylum seekers

Kenny, A. (2022) · Intercultural Education · doi:10.1080/14675986.2022.2144028 · Cited by 25

Beyond records and representations: inbetween writing in educational ethnography

Coles, R. L., & Thomson, P. (2015) · Ethnography & Education · doi:10.1080/17457823.2015.1085324 · Cited by 25

Gender equality work in preschools and early childhood education settings in the Nordic countries—an empirically based illustration

Heikkilä, M. (2020) · Humanities and Social Sciences Communications · doi:10.1057/s41599-020-0459-7 · Cited by 24

Student teachers’ positionalities as knowers in school subject departments

Puttick, S. (2017) · British Educational Research Journal · doi:10.1002/berj.3314 · Cited by 20

Negotiating the ‘Ghanaian’ way of schooling: transnational mobility and the educational strategies of British-Ghanaian families

Abotsi, E. (2019) · Globalisation Societies and Education · doi:10.1080/14767724.2019.1700350 · Cited by 20

Confucius Institute Programming in the United States: Language Ideology, Hegemony, and the Making of Chinese Culture in University Classes

Stambach, A. (2015) · Anthropology & Education Quarterly · doi:10.1111/aeq.12087 · Cited by 17

Disability studies in and for inclusive teacher education in Aotearoa New Zealand

Morton, M., McIlroy, A.-M., MacArthur, J., & Olsen, P. (2021) · International Journal of Inclusive Education · doi:10.1080/13603116.2021.1882059 · Cited by 18

Teacher Education Research in the Twenty-First Century

Menter, I. (2023) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-16193-3_85 · Cited by 19

Inclusion, exclusion and the queering of spaces in two Icelandic upper secondary schools

Kjaran, J. I., & Jóhannesson, I. Á. (2014) · Ethnography & Education · doi:10.1080/17457823.2014.925409 · Cited by 24

Chief examiners as Prophet and Priest: relations between examination boards and school subjects, and possible implications for knowledge

Puttick, S. (2015) · The Curriculum Journal · doi:10.1080/09585176.2014.1000936 · Cited by 16

History in multidisciplinary education: a case study in a Finnish primary school

Mård, N. (2020) · Education 3-13 · doi:10.1080/03004279.2020.1737172 · Cited by 14

Leadership, support and organisation for academics’ participation in engineering education change for sustainable development

Högfeldt, A.-K., Gumaelius, L., Berglund, P., Kari, L., Pears, A., & Kann, V. (2022) · European Journal of Engineering Education · doi:10.1080/03043797.2022.2106824 · Cited by 13

Teacher Education Research in the Twenty-First Century

Menter, I. (2022) · Springer eBooks · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-59533-3_85-1 · Cited by 12

Learning about ‘inclusive’ pedagogies through a special school placement

Maher, A. J., Thomson, A. D., Parkinson, S., Hunt, S., & Burrows, A. (2021) · Physical Education and Sport Pedagogy · doi:10.1080/17408989.2021.1873933 · Cited by 17

Exploring international students' perspectives on being ‘international’

Vidal, W. E. E., & Kamp, A. (2024) · Higher Education Quarterly · doi:10.1111/hequ.12565 · Cited by 14

A Digital Ethnography of Teach For America: Analysis of Counternarrative From the Truth For America Podcast

Heilig, J. V., Brewer, T. J., Kim, A. K., & Sanchez, M. (2020) · Urban Education · doi:10.1177/0042085920953880 · Cited by 11

Playing gender(s): the re/construction of a suspect ‘gender identity’ through play

Brito, S., Carneiro, N. S., & Nogueira, C. (2021) · Ethnography & Education · doi:10.1080/17457823.2021.1922927 · Cited by 11

Teacher Professional Development in Indonesia: Issues and Challenges

Kusanagi, K. N. (2022) · Education in the Asia-Pacific region · doi:10.1007/978-981-19-5928-8_4 · Cited by 10

Performativity, guilty knowledge, and ethnographic intervention

Puttick, S. (2015) · Ethnography & Education · doi:10.1080/17457823.2015.1110039 · Cited by 10

Researching Transgression: Ana as a Youth Subculture in the Age of Digital Ethnography

Crowe, N., & Hoskins, K. (2019) · Societies · doi:10.3390/soc9030053 · Cited by 10

Examining the Strengths and Limitations of Ethnographic Research

Howard, N.-J. (2021) · International Journal of Asian Education · doi:10.46966/ijae.v2i4.238 · Cited by 9

Ethnography and the Localization of Global Education Policy

Stambach, A. (2016) · doi:10.1002/9781118468005.ch27 · Cited by 9

An exploration of what conditions facilitate experiences of compassion in one early childhood community

Broadfoot, H., & Pascal, C. (2021) · European Early Childhood Education Research Journal · doi:10.1080/1350293x.2021.1985558 · Cited by 9

Cómo hacer investigación cualitativa en el área de tecnología educativa

Navas, M. F., Fuentes, A. Y. P., Granados, L. P., & Salarirche, N. A. (2022) · Revista Interuniversitaria de Investigación en Tecnología Educativa · doi:10.6018/riite.547251 · Cited by 8

Reflection/Commentary on a Past Article: “A Practical Iterative Framework for Qualitative Data Analysis”

Srivastava, P., & Hopwood, N. (2018) · International Journal of Qualitative Methods · doi:10.1177/1609406918788204 · Cited by 8

Designing context-specific physical activity interventions for English primary schools: key learning from a four-month rapid ethnography

Walker, R. A. J., House, D., Kent-Saisch, S., Porter, A., Salway, R., Emm-Collison, L., Beets, M. W., Lubans, D. R., de Vocht, F., & Jago, R. (2025) · BMC Public Health · doi:10.1186/s12889-025-23682-4 · Cited by 7

Common misconceptions and good practices in qualitative research in school psychology

Sabnis, S. V., & Wolgemuth, J. R. (2024) · Journal of School Psychology · doi:10.1016/j.jsp.2024.101328 · Cited by 7

Ethnography is not qualitative

Walford, G. (2018) · Ethnography & Education · doi:10.1080/17457823.2018.1540308 · Cited by 7

On an excursion through EC1: multimodality, ethnography and urban walking

Lamb, J., Gallagher, M. S., & Knox, J. (2018) · Qualitative Research · doi:10.1177/1468794118773294 · Cited by 7

Exploring experiences of compassion in the daily rhythms of one early childhood community

Broadfoot, H., & Pascal, C. (2020) · European Early Childhood Education Research Journal · doi:10.1080/1350293x.2020.1783922 · Cited by 14

Ethnography for Engaging Students with Higher Education and Societal Issues

Robinson, S. (2020) · Doing higher education · doi:10.1007/978-3-658-30381-5_6 · Cited by 7

Language teacher expertise research: A theoretical case and research agenda

Anderson, J. (2024) · Language Teaching · doi:10.1017/s0261444824000168 · Cited by 6

Reassembling teachers’ professional practice: an ethnography of intertextual hierarchies in primary mathematics

Unsworth, R., & Tummons, J. (2020) · Ethnography & Education · doi:10.1080/17457823.2020.1788405 · Cited by 6

Kulttuurien tutkimuksen menetelmät

Kajander, K., & Lappi, T.-R. (2022) · doi:10.21435/tl.274 · Cited by 6

Timetabling a transition with dignity: Perspectives of young adults with significant support needs

Hart, S. M., Hill, M., & Gaffney, J. S. (2021) · Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability · doi:10.3109/13668250.2021.1885973 · Cited by 6

School Leader Lotería: How School Educators Respond to Latinx Student Performances of (Their) Lived Experiences With Racism in School

Domínguez, A. D., & Casanova, C. R. (2023) · Journal of Research on Leadership Education · doi:10.1177/19427751231175926 · Cited by 6

Transnational Migration and Educational Change: Examples of Afropolitan Schooling from Senegal and Ghana

Abotsi, E., & Hoechner, H. (2022) · Anthropology & Education Quarterly · doi:10.1111/aeq.12419 · Cited by 5

The Spatial Mobility Trap? How Urban Contexts Shape the Spatial Mobility of Male Undocumented Youths

Ruszczyk, S. P. (2022) · Sociological Forum · doi:10.1111/socf.12866 · Cited by 5

The Value in Rapid, Multi-Site Team Ethnography for Understanding Context to Design Public Health Interventions: Learning From the PASSPORT Study

House, D., Walker, R. A. J., Kent-Saisch, S., Emm-Collison, L., Salway, R., Porter, A., de Vocht, F., Beets, M. W., Jago, R., & Langford, R. M. (2025) · International Journal of Qualitative Methods · doi:10.1177/16094069251401808 · Cited by 6

Home learning: an exploration of parents perspectives

O’Sullivan, J. (2022) · International Journal of Early Years Education · doi:10.1080/09669760.2022.2137781 · Cited by 4

Reconsidering educational ethnography and the field notebook: a contribution from inclusive ethics

Pérez‐Izaguirre, E., Gorospe, J. M. C., Apraiz, E. J. D. A., & Barragán, A. G.-C. (2024) · International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education · doi:10.1080/09518398.2024.2318283 · Cited by 4

Don’t Stand Up in a Hammock

Willis, A. S., & Louth, S. A. (2024) · Australian and International Journal of Rural Education · doi:10.47381/aijre.v34i1.469 · Cited by 4

Insiders and Outsiders: The Ethics of Insider Research When Investigating Australian Alternative Learning Environments

Bloomfield, C., & Harreveld, B. (2020) · Palgrave studies in education research methods · doi:10.1007/978-3-030-48845-1_4 · Cited by 4

Utilising the community cultural wealth framework to explore Sierra Leonean parents’ experiences of outdoor adventure education in the United Kingdom

Cook, R. (2021) · Journal of Adventure Education & Outdoor Learning · doi:10.1080/14729679.2021.1902825 · Cited by 4

Sanctifying Security: Jewish Approaches to Religious Education in Jerusalem

Calvert, I. (2019) · Religions · doi:10.3390/rel10010023 · Cited by 4

Using Ethnography in Educational Research

Mills, D. (2019) · Oxford University Press eBooks · doi:10.1093/obo/9780199756810-0208 · Cited by 4

Examining the Relevance of Ethnographic Practices in Researching Teacher Identity in Preservice Teacher Education

Steadman, S. (2024) · International Journal of Changes in Education · doi:10.47852/bonviewijce42022029 · Cited by 3

Lessons Learnt From Conducting an Instrumental Ethno-Case Study in a Mainstream Secondary School

Scattergood, A. J. (2024) · International Journal of Qualitative Methods · doi:10.1177/16094069241229986 · Cited by 3

Contested Perspectives on the Social Impacts of a Residential Field Trip

Gee, N. (2019) · Journal of Experiential Education · doi:10.1177/1053825919860208 · Cited by 3

Researching event-centred projects: Showcasing grounded aesthetics

Howard, F. (2021) · Qualitative Research · doi:10.1177/1468794121990973 · Cited by 3

‘Where do I sit?’ Transitioning from classroom teacher to educational researcher to explore students’ ideas about the Holocaust

Kirkland, C. (2022) · Holocaust Studies · doi:10.1080/17504902.2022.2058725 · Cited by 3

“I’ve got a mountain of paperwork to do!” Literacies and texts in a cycle technicians’ workshop

Tummons, J. (2023) · Journal of Education and Work · doi:10.1080/13639080.2023.2226076 · Cited by 4

Novice EFL Teachers’ Belief and Emotional Regulation in Response to Students’ Misbehaviors in the Classrooms

Ngo, T. C. T. (2024) · International Journal of Language Instruction · doi:10.54855/ijli.24342 · Cited by 3

Toward critical inquiry: using trauma-informed-principles to highlight teacher (mis)understanding of linguistic funds of knowledge

Schepers, O. C., Morita‐Mullaney, T., & Baquero-Sierra, A. (2025) · International Multilingual Research Journal · doi:10.1080/19313152.2025.2490423 · Cited by 3

The Influence of a Special School Placement on Prospective Teachers’ Views About the Nature, Purpose, and Value of Physical Education in England: A Gramscian Critique

Maher, A., Parkinson, S. D., & Thomson, A. (2022) · Quest · doi:10.1080/00336297.2022.2091462 · Cited by 3

‘It’s the Future!’: Students as Key Stakeholders in Asia Literacy

Cominos, N., & Soong, H. (2018) · Education in the Asia-Pacific region · doi:10.1007/978-981-13-1068-3_11 · Cited by 3

Time-shifting in the digital university : temporality and online distance education

Sheail, P. (2015) · ERA · Cited by 3

How upper secondary students figure chemistry

Niemann, J., Holmegaard, H. T., & Madsen, L. M. (2024) · Chemistry Education Research and Practice · doi:10.1039/d4rp00145a · Cited by 2

Teachers of refugee children opening up dialogic spaces across interruptions and change

Karslı-Çalamak, E., & Mazzanti, C. V. (2025) · Early Childhood Research Quarterly · doi:10.1016/j.ecresq.2025.01.005 · Cited by 2

Ethnographie dans une école primaire au pays de Galles. Une posture épistémologique d’insider/outsider

Turner, K., & Bélanger, N. (2020) · Éducation et francophonie · doi:10.7202/1070098ar · Cited by 2

From Disabled Students to Disabled Brains: The Medicalizing Power of Rhetorical Images in the Israeli Learning Disabilities Field

Katchergin, O. (2016) · Journal of Medical Humanities · doi:10.1007/s10912-016-9425-1 · Cited by 2

„Naše učitelka nás naučila vytvářet skupinky rovnoměrně“: sociální inkluze v základní škole

Vorlíček, R. (2018) · Český lid · doi:10.21104/cl.2018.1.03 · Cited by 2

Interakcine etnografija: metodologija ar epistemologija?

Bairašauskienė, L. (2019) · LOGOS · doi:10.24101/logos.2019.22 · Cited by 2

Students’ experiences of internationalised MSc programmes in Denmark

Eiras, P. R. S. (2022) · European Educational Research Journal · doi:10.1177/14749041221136899 · Cited by 2

Policy, memory and voice: Re-constructing narratives of widening participation in higher education in England

Jones, I. (2017) · UCL Discovery (University College London) · Cited by 2

Co-producing Curricula: Young People’s Lived Experience of School-linked Practical Conservation and Citizen Science

Ruck, A. (2019) · Stirling Online Research Repository (University of Stirling) · Cited by 2

Recontextualization of professional development : bureaucratization of lesson study in a junior secondary school in Java

Kusanagi, K. N. (2019) · UCL Discovery (University College London) · Cited by 2

A view from a PRU: An ethnographic study of pupil referral unit practice in Wales

Smith, P. R. (2019) · ORCA Online Research @Cardiff (Cardiff University) · Cited by 2

Becoming ‘sound’: a process of building rapport as a researcher in an alternative education provision

Morris, T., Hodgkin, K., & Beauchamp, G. (2025) · Ethnography & Education · doi:10.1080/17457823.2025.2497770 · Cited by 1

Radicalisation through education in Afghanistan: A critical inquiry and implications

Sahar, A. (2025) · International Journal of Educational Development · doi:10.1016/j.ijedudev.2025.103320 · Cited by 1

Open schooling landscape education and geography: a new paradigm for secondary education in Greece

Pavlis, E. S. (2025) · International Research in Geographical and Environmental Education · doi:10.1080/10382046.2025.2574699 · Cited by 1

Identity formation in minority education in the Danish-German border region

Perlinger, J., & Wischmann, A. (2025) · European Educational Research Journal · doi:10.1177/14749041251388283 · Cited by 1

The British, the tank, and that Czech: How teachers talk about people in history lessons

Honig, M., & Porat, D. A. (2019) · Theory & Research in Social Education · doi:10.1080/00933104.2019.1577196 · Cited by 1

Reflections on qualitative research in education

Almeida, E. V., Rosero, A., Vásquez, W. P. C., & Castillo, D. (2021) · Revista Cognosis · doi:10.33936/cognosis.v6i0.3402 · Cited by 1

Seriousness in the eyes: experiences of school reception and inclusion with Ukrainian pupils (2022-2023)

Lapov, Z. (2023) · Form re - Open Journal per la formazione in rete · doi:10.36253/form-15099 · Cited by 1

influencia del pensamiento fenomenológico en el desarrollo de la disciplina etnográfica

Martí­n, C. V. S. (2020) · Áreas Revista Internacional de Ciencias Sociales · doi:10.6018/areas.400091 · Cited by 1

Kenttämuistiinpanot postmodernissa etnografiassa

Heikkilä, E. (2022) · Elore · doi:10.30666/elore.112903 · Cited by 1

Conclusion: A Synthesis for Now and Possibilities for the Future

McGregor, D. (2023) · Contributions from science education research · doi:10.1007/978-3-031-17350-9_18 · Cited by 1

Schooling Habitus: An auto/ethnographic study of music education's entanglements with cultural hegemony

Fairbanks, S. (2018) · Apollo (University of Cambridge) · doi:10.17863/cam.42088 · Cited by 1

The influence of introducing the concept of emotional intelligence in Saudi educational supervision context

Almudarra, J. B. M. (2026) · e-space (Manchester Metropolitan University) · doi:10.83056/mmu.32479875 · Cited by 1

Messy Multiculturalism - A critical conversation about state multiculturalism and the lived everyday experiences of cultural diversity in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Hansen, S. (2020) · doi:10.26686/wgtn.17145926.v1 · Cited by 1

How teachers support children’s learning through culturally and linguistically responsive pedagogy in two early childhood education centres.

Shareef, S. (2020) · University of Canterbury Research Repository (University of Canterbury) · doi:10.26021/1082 · Cited by 1

Schoolgirls in cyberspace: A cross-case analysis of the literacy practices of three fifth-grade girls in a social network site

Lindstrom, D. L. (2012) · doi:10.31274/etd-180810-2395

Using Data to See what Students are Doing: A Critically Enquiring Approach to VLE Development

Coker, H. (2015) · Journal of Perspectives in Applied Academic Practice · doi:10.14297/jpaap.v3i1.146

Putting words into their mouths: ethnographic encounters of multilingual literacy practices in a British-Arab home

Alzouebi, K. (2013) · International Journal of Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation · doi:10.1504/ijsei.2013.059951

Ethnographic Tales From the School Restaurant

Lalli, G. S. (2017) · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks · doi:10.4135/9781526409201

Promoting reading development of beginner readers in the Umlazi District of KwaZulu Natal

Stoltz, J. M. (2016) · Unisa Institutional Repository (University of South Africa)

Ethnographic Research in Blended Environments

Hinkelman, D. (2018) · Palgrave Macmillan UK eBooks · doi:10.1057/978-1-137-53686-0_9

The challenges and possibilities of teaching and learning about conflict: A qualitative analysis of school-based peacebuilding education programmes on the island of Ireland.

Mallon, B. (2016) · Arrow@dit (Dublin Institute of Technology)

The Tracking of Users' Unintentionally Shared Information by Social Network Sites

Sar, R. K. (2014) · Charles Sturt University Research Output (CRO)

Fancy Schools for Fancy People: Risks and Rewards in Fieldwork Research Among the Low German Mennonites of Canada and Mexico

Sneath, R. (2019) · Religions · doi:10.3390/rel10010039

Beginning and mentor teachers’ perceptions of teacher mentoring processes in primary schools : a case study in Aotearoa New Zealand.

Buchanan, G. M. (2019) · UC Research Repository (University of Canterbury) · doi:10.26021/9495

Ethnography and the teacher

Woods, P. (2005) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780203996454-6

How to Read Ethnography

y Blasco, P. G., Wardle, H., Wardle, H., & y Blasco, P. G. (2007) · Routledge eBooks · doi:10.4324/9780203390962 · Cited by 47

An Ethnography of Academic Writing: On the Very Idea of an Ethnography

Smith, P. V. (2014) · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks · doi:10.4135/978144627305013507682

Ethnographic Methods in Education

Delamont, S. (2012) · SAGE Publications Ltd eBooks · doi:10.4135/9781446261569 · Cited by 23

Ethnography & education

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