Listen up all you aspiring ethnographers interested in studying young'uns. Shane the Lone Ethnographer needs to find out (lickety-split ) the basics of conducting research with young children (with the help of Billy the Literal Kid) in order to land a post-doc. position. Containing a homework assignment at the end of each chapter, this wise but witty Western-themed graphic textbook is designed for upper-level undergraduate and graduate-level students in departments across the social sciences including anthropology, education, and family studies. In this book, Shane as well as readers -attain a strong grounding in the theory, practice, and methodologies in the ethnography of childhood; -develop an understanding of the special nature of childhood research, in particular that it should be descriptive and not predictive; -receive guidance on navigating IRBs and other potential bureaucratic impediments.
