Key Ideas
- Critical ethnography highlights both the ways societal structures and institutions shape experience and the ability of people to respond and thus shape experience.
- Critical ethnography's goals are to illustrate power and oppression and suggest paths toward greater equity and justice.
- Critical ethnographers explicitly describe our own biases, assumptions, and theoretical backgrounds in order to make our research more transparent.
The biggest struggle for me in this research has been finding the right voice with which to talk about what I observed in the Zion School District. There are many things about which to be critical, but having formed relationships with the participants and generally believing that they are “nice people” make ...
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