Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction Ethnography and Education Policy Across the Americas Bradley A. U. Levinson and Sandra L. Cade -- Part I Looking Across Borders -- Chapter 1 Constructing Diversity and Civility in the United States and Latin America: Implications for Ethnographic Educational Research Elsie Rockwell -- Part II Research Projects and Interpretation -- Chapter 2 When Policy Moves Fast, How Long Can Ethnography Take? Geoffrey Walford -- Chapter 3 Contradictory Logics in the Social Construction of Teaching in Argentina: An Ethnography of the Notebook of Professional Performance Graciela Batallan -- Chapter 4 Spatiotemporal Fluidity and Culturally Relevant Pedagogy in the Latino Diaspora Stanton Wortham and Margaret Contreras -- Chapter 5 The Role of Institutional Education Projects in the Reconstruction of the School Labyrinth Rafael A ́vila Pen˜ agos and Marina Camargo Abello -- Chapter 6 Alternative Educational Projects: Technical Developments and Political Debate in the Everyday Workings of "Nongraded" Schools in Argentina Ana Padawer -- Part III Position Statements and Discussions -- Chapter 7 The Role of Ethnographic Research in Education Policy: A Trail to Blaze Etelvina Sandoval Flores -- Chapter 8 Education Policy and Ethnography: Problems, Prospects, and New Directions Patricia Medina Melgarejo -- Chapter 9 Perspective- Taking in the Practice-Research Gap: Using Ethnography to Help Schools See Themselves Peter Demerath -- Chapter 10 Workshop Discussion: Ethnography and Policy- The State of the Art Participants in the Eighth Interamerican Symposium -- Chapter 11 A Teacher in Transition: Coming to Terms with Prior Beliefs Barbara Greybeck -- Chapter 12 Teaching the Ethnographic Vision as a Way into Policy? A Brazilian Perspective on Ethnography as a Social Control Practice Isabela Cabral Fe ́lix de Sousa.

Ethnography and Education Policy: A Commentary Frederick Erickson -- Index -- About the Contributors.