Ravitch’s research integrates the fields of qualitative research, education, international development, cultural anthropology, and human development, and has four main strands: (1) Practitioner research as a means to engendering sustainable professional and institutional development, change, and innovation; (2) International applied development research that works from participatory, action, and applied ethnographic research approaches (projects currently in the U.S., Nicaragua, and India); (3) Ethnographic and participatory evaluation and assessment; and (4) Leader education and professional development
