In the end, ethnology is an extremely personalized research method, and is useful specifically for that reason, but that is also its greatest weakness, so I would suggest that in addition to teachers being ethnographers in their own right, they also read many different ethnographies by others in order to get perspective on the workings of many classrooms.

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I am truly wondering, searching, and curious. I am not entirely sure what I am searching for either which fits in well with an ethnographic perspective. I don’t know what i have to learn, I just know that I have a lot to learn, and every opportunity that I come across, I try to learn something. This is an interesting class because if has interesting readings, and it forces me to actually examine what I and other people are doing each and every day. And then I have to try to make sense of it in a comprehensible theoretical framework…that is the hard part.

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