Toward a Critical Ethnography of the University: Methodological and Theoretical Considerations

• In Event: Decolonizing Higher Education

Abstract

This paper examines recent trends in higher education ethnography, advocating for a critical approach that moves from treating institutions as settings to objects of inquiry. To illustrate this approach, I utilize examples from a 16-month ethnography of the daily realities of diversity policy and practice at a large, public university.

Author

• Raymond Kirk Anderson, The University of Wisconsin-Madison