ABSTRACT
This chapter includes graduate students pondering master's theses and doctoral dissertations and shares these accounts for one more reason: to pass along the advice that new researchers should ask themselves. It explores how education policy for information and communication technology (ICT) influenced teaching and learning in South African schools. The chapter shows that expertise from the Global South, in the case from researchers based in Mexico, could be welcome and sought after by American school districts. It connects federal education policy to more local implementation, but this time the focal point of the policy implementation continuum is at the state education agency (SEA) level rather than at the school or district level. To anthropologically understand policy implementation in each of these cases much more centrally required being present to record the knowledge that was being assembled to attend to human problems.
