Encouraging Doubt and Dialogue: Documentation as a Tool for Critique: Documentation supports two teachers in studying and transforming the culture of ethnography in their classrooms.

Two teachers describe how they use documentation to understand the learning that takes place in their classrooms. Sutter and Donovan pair their fourth-grade and first-grade students in yearlong partnerships to explore issues of social justice through a study of the Civil Rights Movement. Students and teachers together have developed a culture of ethnography and have used tools such as tape recorders, video tapes, and cameras to document and reflect on their individual and group learning.