Publications

Understanding Pupil Resistance- Integrating Gender, Ethnicity and Class: An educational ethnography - Lisa Russell - 2011

Resistance is a legitimate response to tensions faced by pupils inside and outside of school. There are various explanations for pupil resistance, each of which alters depending upon the interaction of structure and agency within specific instances in particular points in time. International, national and local community structures, events, ideologies and practices are reproduced within schools and influence a young person's schooling experience. Resistance is context specific, volatile and dynamic. It manifests itself within the classroom and school setting in a multifaceted way because of the many inter-related factors that shape it. National and local community contexts, school features and individual teacher and pupil characteristics interact to contribute to the formation and manifestation of different patterns of resistance. Although influenced by macro and micro structures, pupils can and do inject agency; they are adept at working the school system and they manage structures to satisfy their own needs.

Ethnographic data collected from over 13 months of field work explores working class pupil resistance. It focuses on the daily lives of 22 young people from two comprehensive schools in Birmingham, England and one state-governed school in Sydney, Australia.

The book attempts to understand pupil resistance to mainstream schooling and its meaning in working-class communities and schools. It explores what pupil resistance looks like; how it is played out in the classroom and playground and how is it experienced by the teenagers themselves. A new range of resistances are analysed and used to show how girls' patterns of resistances have developed and changed. It shows that girls tend to be more aggressive in their tone, visibility and prominence in their resistance and that they tend to operate collectively to enforce more emancipatory powers against certain teachers and the school system.

This book tells the story of marginalised youth, the disadvantaged and disengaged, through their experiences and their words.

Price UK £10. ISBN 978-0-9569007-0-8 Available from Amazon and contact@eande.org.uk

Young people's influence and democratic education: Ethnographic studies in upper secondary schools - editors Elisabet Öhrn, Lisbeth Lundahl and Dennis Beach - 2011

Our ethnographic study shows how social relationships are formed in performative processes of rituals and ritualizations. In this sense, the focus is on the dramaturgy and organization of ritual interactions and their effects, on scenic-mimetic expressivity, on the performance and staging character, and on the practical knowledge of social action. Four central socialization fields of performative ritual action are analyzed: the living environment of the family, transitions in everyday school life, games children play at recess and media stagings of peer groups. Ritual action is also defined as practical mimetic knowledge, and the city is characterized as performative space.

Price UK £11.95 ISBN 978-1-872767-23-9 Available from Amazon and Tuffnell Press

Ritual and Identity: The staging and performing of rituals in the lives of young people - Christoph Wulf et.al. - 2010

Rituals play a central role in the development of individual and collective identity. This is particularly true for young people, who are tractable to a great extent. Rituals are productive. While they were previously made a subject of discussion under the aspects of stereotyping, rigidity and violence, the investigation at hand concentrates on productive moments of rituals that make a contribution to bringing forth and forming the identity of communities and individuals. In ritual processes, the body, the senses and the performative actions of all parties involved play an important role. Rituals serve the community as a medium for generating and dealing with differences, for overcoming crises and for structuring transitions. Our ethnographic study shows how social relationships are formed in performative processes of rituals and ritualizations. In this sense, the focus is on the dramaturgy and organization of ritual interactions and their effects, on scenic-mimetic expressivity, on the performance and staging character, and on the practical knowledge of social action. Four central socialization fields of performative ritual action are analyzed: the living environment of the family, transitions in everyday school life, games children play at recess and media stagings of peer groups. Ritual action is also defined as practical mimetic knowledge, and the city is characterized as performative space.

Price UK £12.95 ISBN 1872767133 Available from Amazon and Tuffnell Press

How to do Educational Ethnography - Edited by Geoffrey Walford - 2008

This book is written by key authors in the educational ethnography field including contributions from Dennis Beach, Sara Delamont, Martin Forsey, Judith Green, Bob Jeffrey, Mats Trondman and Geoffrey Walford. It is designed for researchers new to educational ethnograpy as well as those with some experience. It guides the reader through the processes and pitfalls of conducting ethnography in educational settings and gives guidance on how the reader can conduct high quality research.

Price: UK £12.95 ISBN 1872767923 Available from Amazon and Tuffnell Press

Performing English with a postcolonial accent: Ethnographic narratives from Mexico - Angeles Clemente and Michael J. Higgins - 2008

This book is intended for scholars and students in applied linguistics, cultural anthropology, SLA, and cultural studies; for those working in English as an additional language and Latin American community studies; and for non-native teachers of English and language teachers interested in performativity and postcolonial discourses.

Price UK £ 14.95 ISBN 1872767877 Available from Amazon and Tuffnell Press

Education and the Commodity Problem: Ethnographic Investigations of Creativity and Performativity in Swedish Schools - Dennis Beach and Marianne Dovemark - 2007

This book investigates how educational institutions, teachers and students deal with knowledge production, processing, acquisition, critique, and dissemination at times of social, economic and political change with regard to the steering principles of education and the discoursing of education policy.

Price UK £12.95 ISBN 1872767729 Available from Amazon and Tuffnell Press

Creative Learning Practices: European Experiences - Edited by Bob Jeffrey - 2007

This book is the result of the EC and ESRC funded Creative Learning and Student’s Perspectives (CLASP) research project which examined processes of creative learning in nine European countries.

Price UK £12.95 ISBN 1872767575 Available from Amazon and Tuffnell Press

Researching Education Policy: Ethnographic Experiences - Geoff Troman, Bob Jeffrey, Dennis Beach - 2006

The book traces some of the issues and experiences in the development of ethnographic projects examining policy developments—from planning, through analysis and writing, to outcomes as methodological articles.

Price UK £10.95 ISBN 1872767621 Available from Amazon and Tuffnell Press