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ERIC Number: EJ180903
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1978
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Structuring School Structure
Mehan, Hugh
Harvard Educational Review, 48, 1, 32-64, Feb 78
Notes that the most common educational research methods (large-scale surveys and field observations) have failed to examine the processes by which school participants create school structures. Advocates constitutive ethnography as a new approach and presents examples of its application in examining classrooms, lessons, educational testing, and counseling sessions. (EM)
Descriptors: Class Organization, Educational Research, Educational Testing, Interaction Process Analysis, Research Methodology, Research Problems, School Organization, Social Structure, Student School Relationship, Student Teacher Relationship
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