Prelims -- Introduction: new directions in educational ethnography: shifts, problems, and reconstruction -- Against all odds: the ethnography of hope among Haitian youth in difficult circumstances -- Using queer theory to read the hushing of boys reading: "a thought of a method" of queer educational ethnography -- Where machines rant, recite poems, and take outrageous selfies: an ethnography of a teachers' facebook group -- Relying on local contexts to foster and thwart black student academic success: an ethnographic account of teachers fostering academic success for (some) black students -- The emergence of critical presence ethnography: capturing the ripples of self in educational contexts -- (critical) educational ethnography: methodological premise and pedagogical objectives -- A critical ethnographic approach to transforming norms of whiteness in marginalized parents engagement and activism in schools -- Ethnography as subject, ethnography as object: experimenting with research in a college writing classroom -- Teaching through discussion: a mixed qualitative methods study of educator facilitation practices in a small group learning context using ethnographic and conversation analytic approaches -- About the authors -- Index.