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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
List of contents
List of Contributors viii
Introduction 1
Mica Pollock and Bradley A.U. Levinson
Part I Histories and Generations 9
1 World Anthropologies of Education 11
Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
2 Culture 25
Frederick Erickson
3 The Ethnography of Schooling Writ Large, 1955-2010 34
Ray McDermott and Jason Duque Raley
4 Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring Out What to Do Next 50
Hervé Varenne, with Jill Koyama
5 Recovering History in the Anthropology of Education 65
Elsie Rockwell
6 The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology 81
Douglas Foley
7 "If There's Going to Be an Anthropology of Education ..." 97
Harry F. Wolcott
8 Building an Applied Educational Anthropology beyond the Academy 112
Jean J. Schensul
Part II Education via Language: Speaking, Writing, Playing 135
9 Linguistic Anthropology of Education 137
Stanton Wortham and Angela Reyes
10 The Anthropology of Literacy 154
Lesley Bartlett, Dina López, Lalitha Vasudevan, and Doris Warriner
11 The Anthropology of Language Planning and Policy 177
Teresa L. McCarty and Larisa Warhol
12 Language Socialization across Educational Settings 197
Patricia Baquedano-López and Sera Jean Hernandez
13 Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth and the Media 212
Joseph Tobin and Allison Henward
14 Hip Hop and the Politics of Ill-literacy 232
H. Samy Alim
15 Argumentation and the Negotiation of Scientific Authority in Classrooms 247
Laura J. Wright, Joel Kuipers, and Gail Viechnicki
Part III States, Identities, and Education 263
16 The Predicament of Embodied Nationalisms and Educational Subjects 265
Véronique Benei
17 Toward an Anthropology of (Democratic) Citizenship Education 279
Bradley A.U. Levinson
18 Development, Post-colonialism, and Global Networks as Frameworks for the Study of Education in Africa and Beyond 299
Amy Stambach and Zolani Ngwane
19 Civil Sociality and Childhood Education 316
Sally Anderson
20 Anthropological Perspectives on Chinese Children, Youth, and Education 333
Vanessa L. Fong and Sung won Kim
21 Schools, Skills, and Morals in the Contemporary Middle East 349
Fida Adely and Gregory Starrett
22 Educational Policy, Anthropology, and the State 368
Carlos Miñana Blasco and Carolina Arango Vargas
Part IV Roles, Experiences, and Institutions 389
23 Immigrants and Education 391
Margaret A. Gibson and Jill P. Koyama
24 Variations on Diversity and the Risks of Bureaucratic Complicity 408
Ángel Díaz de Rada and Livia Jiménez Sedano
25 Toward an Anthropology of Teachers and Teaching 425
Sarah Jewett and Katherine Schultz
26 Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education 445
Wesley Shumar and Shabana Mir
27 What Makes the Anthropology of Educational Policy Implementation 'Anthropological'? 461
Edmund T. Hamann and Lisa Rosen
Part V Interventions 479
28 The Past, Present, and Future of "Funds of Knowledge" 481
Norma González, Leisy Wyman, and Brendan H. O'Connor
29 Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing the Anthropology of Education 495
Gunther Dietz and Laura Selene Mateos Cortés
30 A Sociohistorical Perspective for Participatory Action Research and Youth Ethnography in Social Justice Education 517
Julio Cammarota
31 Parents as Critical Educators and Ethnographers of Schooling 530
Janise Hurtig and Andrea Dyrness
32 The Critical Ethnography of Public Policy for Social Justice 547
Patricia D. Lopez, Angela Valenzuela, and Emmanuel García
Index 563
About the author
Bradley A. Levinson is Professor of Education and Adjunct Professor of Anthropology and Latino and Latin American Studies at Indiana University.He is the author of
We are All Equal: Student Culture and Identity at a Mexican Secondary School (2001) and
Beyond Critique: Exploring Critical Social Theories and Education (2010), and editor or co-editor of
Policy as Practice: Toward a Comparative Sociocultural Analysis of Educational Policy (with M. Sutton, 2001), and
Reimagining Civic Education: How Diverse Societies Form Democratic Citizens (with D. Stevick, 2007).
Mica Pollock is Professor of Education Studies and Director of the Center for Research on Educational Equity, Assessment, and Teaching Excellence (CREATE) at the University of California, San Diego. She is the author of two ethnographies,
Colormute: Race Talk Dilemmas in an American School (2004) and
Because of Race: How Americans Debate Harm and Opportunity in Our Schools (2008), and the editor of a volume for educators that includes many anthropologists,
Everyday Antiracism: Getting Real about Race in School (2008).
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.
