ABSTRACT
This chapter describes collaborative research involving a South Asian immigrant community, a local educational agency, a community-based organization, and an educational anthropologist. It deals with an overview of the project's history and a synopsis of research results as a context for the ensuing discussion of problems and profits of collaborative ethnographic research. The project was collaborative in the dictionary sense of people working together in a scientific undertaking. The community that hosted the research is a prosperous agricultural town in California's Central Valley. The chapter focuses on the high school in Valleyside because it was representative of the larger community. It investigates what students expected to do following high school and their views on the relationship between schooling and adult success. The chapter concludes with some thoughts on the process of influencing educational change through collaborative research and a summary of "lessons learned."
