Section Two

School Stories

There are many ways to read a book. Good readers
are perhaps as rare as good writers, and, authorial
intentions aside, there is only so much a writer can
tell. Reading is also a creative act and perhaps a far
more creative act than we have to date recognised.

Reading is the third moment of ethnography and it
may be, dear reader, the determining one. Read on.

John Van Maanen, 1995, p. 26

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