Ethnographic Eyes: A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Observation

by Carolyn Frank

Book Overview

Whether you realize it or not, there is a hidden side of classroom life: everyday practices so ordinary and so routine that they often become invisible. The challenge to classroom observers is to... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325002010
• ISBN13: 9780325002019
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"

Customer Reviews

Helpful Guide

This is a helpful guide on how to observe the "culture" of a classroom and write an ethnography. The author helps the reader become aware of how to put aside their own perspectives and see the implicit rules and structures that a teacher creates in his or her classroom.

A Needed Text for Today's Preservice Teachers

If you are an aspiring teacher, a teacher trainer, or an experienced classroom teacher, you will find Dr. Frank's presentation both highly informative and motivating. Dr. Frank successfully takes the reader into a sense of "being there" while opening our eyes to the reality of personal biases. A helpful and friendly feature about her style is her accessibility, i.e., I felt that Dr. Frank was on hand to offer clarification and annotated insights as a means to better equip me in my own observation.