Calls for âœdeparochialization of educational researchâ (Lingard 2006) have directed educational ethnography from the conventional research designs and from the study of single sites and local situations to the study of âœthe circulation of cultural meanings objects and identities in diffuse time-spacesâ (Marcus 1995: 96). In response to this call and following the already established tradition of use of meta-ethnography in health studies this volume explores the potentials of this method (Noblit & Hare 1988) to unpick the interconnectedness of different educational sites which have been and are being studied ethnographically. Besides metaethnographic analyses may also offer a credible response to the lessening of opportunities for original educational ethnographic research at times of limited resources. The volume examines the forms of translocal and transtemporal ethnographic synthesis currently in use by educational ethnographers as well as the challenges and the possibilities that the method offers. It also addresses and attempts to respond to the question if meta-ethnography might be a means to sharpen ethnographersâ sensitivity for each otherâs work and achievements in the past. This book was originally published as a special issue of Ethnography and Education. . Language: English