Citation

Mehan H. Anthropol. Educ. Q. 2008; 39(1): 77-91.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2008, Council on Anthropology and Education, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1548-1492.2008.00006.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

I chronicle the changes in my research, especially those that have moved me closer to C. Wright Mills's call for a “sociological imagination” and Dell Hymes's reinvented anthropology. As I spend more time attempting to create and describe equitable educational environments and less time documenting educational inequality, I have adopted a version of “design research.” I describe the possibilities and limitations of trying to conduct research while participating in the phenomenon under investigation. [sociological imagination, critical ethnography, public sociology, design research]