This chapter lays out the governing principles of operation and conduct (Heath, 1982) and the theoretical perspectives guiding the iterative, recursive, and abductive (IRA) logic and actions (Agar, 2006) that constitute interactional ethnography (IE) as a logic-of-inquiry. This logic-of-inquiry guides outsiders (ethnographers) as they seek to develop understandings of what insiders need to know, understand, produce, and predict as they learn with, and from, others in educational and social environments (Heath, 1982; Street, 1993).
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