Books
Carspecken, Phil Francis. (2008 forthcoming) Can a Theory of Everything Explain Itself? Limits to knowledge in the physical and social sciences. Rotterdam: Sense Publications.
Xie, Xuehui and Carspecken, Phil Francis (2007 forthcoming). Philosophy, Learning and the Mathematics Curriculum: Dialectical Materialism and Pragmatism in Chinese and American Mathematics Education. Rotterdam: Sense Publications.
Carspecken, Phil Francis. (1999) Four Scenes for Posing the Question of Meaning and Other Explorations in Critical Philosophy and Critical Methodology. New York, Berlin: Peter Lang.
Carspecken, Phil Francis. (1996) Critical Ethnography in Educational Research; A Theoretical and Practical Guide. New York and London: Routledge.
Carspecken, Phil Francis. (1991) Community Schooling and the Nature of Power, The battle for Croxteth Comprehensive. London and New York: Routledge.
Carspecken, Phil Francis and Walford, Geoffrey (eds.) (2001). Critical Ethnography and Education, (Studies in Educational Ethnography, Volume 5). Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: JAI Press. Avis, J.,
Carspecken, P.F., Clason, P., Green, A., Hollands, B., Johnson, R., McEwan, D., & Vickers, A. (eds.) (1991) Education Limited; Schooling, Training, and the New Right Since 1979. CCCS. London: Unwin Hyman.
Selected Publications
Carspecken, P.F. (2002) "The Hidden History of Praxis Theory within Critical Ethnography and the Criticalism / Postmodernism Problematic." Chapter four in Zou, Y. and Trueba, H. (eds.) Ethnography and Education: Qualitative Approaches to the Study of Education. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN: 0-7425-1737-3 (in press, April 2002)
Georgiou, D.; Carspecken, P.F.(2002) "Critical Ethnography and Ecological Psychology: Conceptual and Empirical Explorations of a Synthesis." Qualitative Inquiry, June 2002 (in press).
Carspecken, P.F. (2001) "Critical Ethnographies from Houston: distinctive features and directions." Chapter One in Carspecken, Phil Francis and Walford, Geoffrey (eds.) (2001). Critical Ethnography and Education, (Studies in Educational Ethnography, Volume 5). Amsterdam, New York, Oxford: JAI Press.
Carspecken, P.F. (1999) "There is no such thing as critical ethnography: A historical discussion and an outline of one methodological theory." pp. 29-56 in Alexander Massey and Geoffrey Walford (eds.), Studies in Educational Ethnography, Vol. 2: Explorations in Methodology. Stamford, Connecticut: Jai Press.
Carspecken, Phil Francis. (1999) Four Scenes for Posing the Question of Meaning and Other Explorations in Critical Philosophy and Critical Methodology. New York, Berlin: Peter Lang.
Carspecken, P.F. and MacGillivray, L. (1998) "Raising Consciousness about Reflection, Validity, and Meaning", pp. 171-190 in Being Reflexive in Critical Educational and Social Research, Geoffrey Shacklock and John Smyth, eds., Falmer Press.
Carspecken, P.F. (1996). "The Set-up: Crocodile Tears for the Poor", Ch. 5 (pp 109-126) in Kincheloe, J.; Steinberg, S.; Gresson, A. Measured Lies; the Bell Curve Examined. New York: St. Martin's Press.
Georgiou, D.; Carspecken, P.F., and Willems, E. (1996) "An Expansion of Roger Barker's Behavior Setting Survey for an Ethno-Ecological Approach to Person-Environment Relations"; Journal of Environmental Psychology, vol. 16, #1, pp 319-333.
Georgiou, D. and Carspecken, P. F. (1996). "A Method for Contextual Research on Person-Environment Interactions: Behavior Setting Survey and Critical Ethnography". Refereed Published Papers of EDRA 27th Annual Proceedings; pages 163-169.
Carspecken, Phil Francis. (1996) Critical Ethnography in Educational Research; A Theoretical and Practical Guide. New York and London: Routledge.
Carspecken, P.F. (1995). "Pragmatic Binary Oppositions and Intersubjectivity in an Illegally Occupied School". in McLaren, P. and Giarelli, J. (eds.) Critical Theory and Educational Research. New York: SUNY Press. (reprint of QSE publication).
Carspecken, P.F. and Cordeiro, P. (1995). "Being, Doing, and Becoming; Textual Interpretations of Social Identity and a Case Study"; Qualitative Inquiry, pp 87-109, vol. 1, no. 1, March 1995.
Cordeiro, P. and Carspecken, P.F. (1993). "How a Minority of the Minority Succeed; a Case Study of Twenty Highly Successful Hispanic High School Students". International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, Vol. 6, #4; October-December 1993.
Carspecken, P.F. and Apple, M. (1992). "Critical Qualitative Research, Theory, Method, and Practice", chapter 11 in LeCompte, M. Millroy, W. and Preissle, J., Handbook of Qualitative Research in Education, Florida: Academic Press.
Carspecken, P.F. (1992). "Pragmatic Binary Oppositions and Intersubjectivity in an Illegally Occupied School", International Journal of Qualitative Research in Education, Vol.5 #1, January-March 1992.
Funded Projects
Carspecken, P. 1996. "Sociological Social Psychology for the Classroom: The development of Conceptual Models for Teachers, from the perspective of Sociological-Social Psychology, with Empirical Vignettes". University of Houston Faculty Research Opportunity Award.
Carspecken, P. 1996. "Critical Analysis of Qualitative Interviews: The development of conceptual models and analytic techniques". University of Houston Limited Grant in Aid Program. $2,000 to pay a research assistant.
Carspecken, P. 1990. "School-Community Relations and the Houston Mobility Problem; Extrapolations from Projects STAY and HOPE in the Spring Branch Independent School District", awarded by the Texas Education Agency: $5,000. 160 page report submitted at the end of the funding period.