Unsettling truths: Post-structural ethnography as a toll to trouble schooling exclusions

This book chapter discusses the value of post-structural ethnography to research in culturally diverse contexts. It draws on a study conducted in Australia that investigated how students of ethnic and religious minority backgrounds were produced through relations of power and discourses of schooling. It explains the methodological characteristics of post-structural ethnography and presents vignettes of data from two students. Edgeworth argues the value of post-structural ethnography as a tool to unsettle schooling exclusions because it has the potential to facilitate detailed and fine-grained study of the complexities of difference.