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John Van Maanen introduces qualitative research through examples of its application in organizational research. Each article serves as an exemplar of well-written, substantively focused and theoretically relevant qualitative research. The articles represent a broad range of research styles, methods, topics and level of analysis, and the studies cover four areas of research: organizational process, groups in organizations, organizational identi...

This ground-breaking book investigates how the learning and teaching of mathematics can be improved through integrating the history of mathematics into all aspects of mathematics education: lessons, homework, texts, lectures, projects, assessment, and curricula. It draws upon evidence from the experience of teachers as well as national curricula, textbooks, teacher education practices, and research perspectives across the world. It includes a ...

This ground-breaking book investigates how the learning and teaching of mathematics can be improved through integrating the history of mathematics into all aspects of mathematics education: lessons, homework, texts, lectures, projects, assessment, and curricula. It draws upon evidence from the experience of teachers as well as national curricula, textbooks, teacher education practices, and research perspectives across the world. It includes a ...

For the past decade the function of the ethnographer's work has been challenged. Ethnographic texts are now deconstructed for their origins, their biases and their literary devices, and the boundaries of the genre have been expanded through experiments in presentation. This volume explores many of the dimensions of the representational challenge to contemporary ethnography. The contributors, well-known scholars in their field, cover such topi...

Excerpt from Observations on the Making of PolicemenIn recent years the so-called police problem has become one of the more institutionalized topics of routine conversation in this society. Regardless whether one views the police as friend or foe, virtually everyone has a set of cop stories to relate to willing listeners. Although most stories dramatize personal encounters and are situationally specific, there is a common thread running throug...

Excerpt from Career Games, the Formal, Contextual, and Operational Rules of Play Take, for instance, the somewhat beleaguered but still widely proclaimed standard operating procedure in many organiza tions to set mandatory retirement dates for employees. Yet, another standard operating procedure exists to overlook such dates when a person subject to them is a prestigious figure within the organization, a troublemaker who might question the le...

Excerpt from Pathways to Membership: Socialization to Work The view taken in this chapter is that when one moves into the work world for the first time there is likely to be at least some surprise or what Hughes (1958) calls reality shock in store for the individual. When persons undergo such a transition, regardless of the information they already possess about the to-be assumed work, their a priori understanding of that role will un doubted...