ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an overview of what to expect from this book. Firstly, we outline the overarching aims of the publication, explaining why the concept of ‘becoming’ is needed to challenge the dominant approaches to ethnography in education. We address the term ‘becoming’ and consider how it might be meaningful despite bringing together a wide range of different perspectives on teaching and learning ethnography, ethnographers’ trajectories, ethnography as a praxis, and reframing the onto-epistemology, methodology and ethics of ethnography. Secondly, we provide a summary of each chapter of the book and its contributions. Finally, we consider the forces and flows that reverberate across the book and present generative strands of enquiry. Together, these chapters invite the reader to ponder the broad possibilities available for (re)conceptualizing ethnography in education and its potential for educators, young researchers, and academics.
