ABSTRACT
The research presented in this book subscribes to the ideal of ‘critical ethnography’ (Carspecken, 1996), the ‘critical’ implying an engagement with power relations through the method, to involve participants meaningfully in the research process, and to reflexively examine the production of selves among others. Both this chapter and Chapter 3 are concerned with providing a theoretical and descriptive framework for interpreting the ethnographic analysis which begins in Chapter 4.
