In this book, Fitzpatrick and May make the case for a reimagined approach for critical ethnography in education. Exploring how critical ethnography works within contemporary inquiries, the authors argue that many researchers already do the kind of critical ethnography that readers imagine, whether they call their studies critical or not.

Katie Fitzpatrick is an Associate Professor and Head of School in the Faculty of Education and Social Work at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Her research and teaching are focused on health education, physical education, and sexuality education, as well as critical ethnographic and poetic research methods.

Stephen May is Professor of Education in Te Puna Wananga (School of Maori and Indigenous Education) at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is an international authority on language rights, language policy, bilingual education, and critical multiculturalism, as well as having a longstanding interest in critical ethnography.

1. Reimagining Critical Ethnography 2. Critical Ethnography as Methodological Guide: Some Key Tenets 3. Working the Theory (and Context) in Critical Ethnography 4. Considering Ethical Practices in Critical Ethnographic research 5. Being and Doing Critical Ethnography: Ethnographic Writing and Field/Work 6. Language, Race/ism, and In/Equity in Education: Critical Ethnographic Approaches 7. Gender, sexuality and (critical) education ethnography 8. Getting lost