Becoming an educational ethnographer by organized representations of educational realities and ‘researching through’

As a contribution to the overarching theme of this volume, I combine theoretical and methodological thoughts which demonstrate how relevant, innovative, and sophisticated the ethnographic approach to the description and analysis of society and education has become. In a nutshell, my argument states that for ethnographers it is always fruitful and wise to rely on already existing stocks of knowledge from ethnography, be it social theory or ethnographic description and analysis.