Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Introduction Section I--Policy and the ethnographic process No entry signs: educational change and some problems encountered in negotiating entry to educational settings. Geoff Troman Time for ethnography, Bob Jeffrey and Geoff Troman Researching primary teachers' work: Examining policy and practice through interactionist ethnography, Geoff Troman Section II--Policy, representation and dissemination How to 'describe' ethnographic research sites, Bob Jeffrey The deceptive imagination and ethnographic writing, Dennis Beach Artistic representation and research writing, Dennis Beach Tales from the interface: Disseminating ethnography for policy making, Geoff Troman References