A companion to the anthropology of education [electronic resource] / edited by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Mica Pollock
- Published
- Chichester, West Sussex ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- Physical Description
- 1 online resource (xix, 572 pages)
- Additional Creators
- Levinson, Bradley A., 1963- and Pollock, Mica, 1971-
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- Series
- Contents
- Machine generated contents note: pt. I Histories and Generations -- 1.World Anthropologies of Education / Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt -- 2.Culture / Frederick Erickson -- 3.The Ethnography of Schooling Writ Large, 1955-2010 / Jason Duque Raley -- 4.Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring Out What to Do Next / Jill Koyama -- 5.Recovering History in the Anthropology of Education / Elsie Rockwell -- 6.The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology / Douglas Foley -- 7."If There's Going to Be an Anthropology of Education ..." / Harry F. Wolcott -- 8.Building an Applied Educational Anthropology beyond the Academy / Jean J. Schensul -- pt. II Education via Language: Speaking, Writing, Playing -- 9.Linguistic Anthropology of Education / Angela Reyes -- 10.The Anthropology of Literacy / Doris Warriner -- 11.The Anthropology of Language Planning and Policy / Larisa Warhol -- 12.Language Socialization across Educational Settings / Sera Jean Hernandez -- 13.Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth and the Media / Allison Henward -- 14.Hip Hop and the Politics of Ill-literacy / H. Samy Alim -- 15.Argumentation and the Negotiation of Scientific Authority in Classrooms / Gail Viechnicki -- pt. III States, Identities, and Education -- 16.The Predicament of Embodied Nationalisms and Educational Subjects / Veronique Benei -- 17.Toward an Anthropology of (Democratic) Citizenship Education / Bradley A.U. Levinson -- 18.Development, Post-colonialism, and Global Networks as Frameworks for the Study of Education in Africa and Beyond / Zolani Ngwane -- 19.Civil Sociality and Childhood Education / Sally Anderson -- 20.Anthropological Perspectives on Chinese Children, Youth, and Education / Sung won Kim -- 21.Schools, Skills, and Morals in the Contemporary Middle East / Gregory Starrett -- 22.Educational Policy, Anthropology, and the State / Carolina Arango Vargas -- pt. IV Roles, Experiences, and Institutions -- 23.Immigrants and Education / Jill P. Koyama -- 24.Variations on Diversity and the Risks of Bureaucratic Complicity / Livia Jimenez Sedano -- 25.Toward an Anthropology of Teachers and Teaching / Katherine Schultz -- 26.Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education / Shabana Mir -- 27.What Makes the Anthropology of Educational Policy Implementation `Anthropological'? / Lisa Rosen -- pt. V Interventions -- 28.The Past, Present, and Future of "Funds of Knowledge" / Brendan H. O'Connor -- 29.Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing the Anthropology of Education / Laura Selene Mateos Cortes -- 30.A Sociohistorical Perspective for Participatory Action Research and Youth Ethnography in Social Justice Education / Julio Cammarota -- 31.Parents as Critical Educators and Ethnographers of Schooling / Andrea Dyrness -- 32.The Critical Ethnography of Public Policy for Social Justice / Emmanuel Garcia.
- Summary
- "A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploring the social and cultural dimension of educational processes in both formal and nonformal settings. Explores theoretical and applied approaches to cultural practice in a diverse range of educational settings around the world, in both formal and non-formal contexts Includes contributions by leading educational anthropologists Integrates work from and on many different national systems of scholarship, including China, the United States, Africa, the Middle East, Colombia, Mexico, India, the United Kingdom, and Denmark Examines the consequences of history, cultural diversity, language policies, governmental mandates, inequality, and literacy for everyday educational processes"--
"Integrating work from several different national systems of scholarship, A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents a comprehensive and state-of-art overview of the field of anthropology of education. Leading educational anthropologists examine everyday educational processes in culturally diverse settings, and the impacts on those processes of history, language policies, geographically specific problems and solutions, governmental mandates, literacy, inequality, multiculturalism, and more. Each contributor evaluates the key anthropological advances, arguments and approaches that inform the field's research. The Companion presents both theoretical and applied perspectives on important processes of education, in specific locations and worldwide"-- - Subject(s)
- ISBN
- 9781444396690 (electronic bk.)
1444396692 (electronic bk.) - Note
- AVAILABLE ONLINE TO AUTHORIZED PSU USERS.
- Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
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