Introduction

Francesca Gobbo

Kathryn Anderson-Levitt

pp. 499-504

in: Paul Smeyers, David Bridges, Nicholas C. Burbules, Morwenna Griffiths (eds), International handbook of interpretation in educational research, Berlin, Springer, 2015

Abstract

Ethnographic research is interpretive research in a double sense. One role of ethnographers is to understand the participants" perspectives: How do they interpret the world? At the same time, ethnographers themselves do interpretive work. These essays address both issues.