Books by Harry F. Wolcott

Uses a microenthnographic approach to analyze a single occupation within urban American society. This book applies anthropological concepts and methodology to the realm of education.

Deals with the study of a Kwakiutl Indian village. This book looks into the educational training of Indian children.

Looks at the dynamics of a federally funded research and development project. This book analyzes what happened when university researchers and school district administrators attempted to introduce an experimental planning and evaluation system in an operating school district.

Harry Wolcott discusses the fundamental nature of ethnographic studies, offering important suggestions on improving and deepening research practices for both novice and expert researchers.

One of anthropology's premier writers on fieldwork methodology looks at the essential elements that constitute the art of his discipline. In The Art of Fieldwork, Wolcott compares the fieldworker to the artist, while recognizing the inherent differences between the labors of each.

Using lively examples and friendly tips gleaned from his own and other researchers' experiences, and a warm, reflective writing style, Harry F Wolcott offers readers suggestions for writing up qualitative research.

The process of analyzing qualitative data and producing a complete study is discussed in this book. Breaking down the transformation process into description, analysis and interpretation, Harry Wolcott discusses these three related activities. To illustrate them, he critically analyzes his own work, using nine of his previous studies as examples. He concludes by examining how to learn and how to teach qualitative research using these principles.