Ethnographic Eyes: A Teacher's Guide to Classroom Observation

by Carolyn Frank

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 understand and reveal these implicit patterns. For Carolyn Frank, ethnography provides the perfect lens through which to view them. Ethnographic Eyes extends ethnography beyond the work of university researchers and proves what an accessible and instructive...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0325002010
• ISBN13: 9780325002019
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Heinemann Educational Books
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Grade Range: Kindergarten to Grade 12

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.