Levinson / Pollock A Companion to the Anthropology of Education

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-4443-9669-0
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 592 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology

A Companion to the Anthropology of Education presents acomprehensive and state-of-the-art overview of the field, exploringthe social and cultural dimension of educational processes in bothformal and nonformal settings.
* Explores theoretical and applied approaches to culturalpractice in a diverse range of educational settings around theworld, in both formal and non-formal contexts
* Includes contributions by leading educationalanthropologists
* Integrates work from and on many different national systems ofscholarship, including China, the United States, Africa, the MiddleEast, Colombia, Mexico, India, the United Kingdom, and Denmark
* Examines the consequences of history, cultural diversity,language policies, governmental mandates, inequality, and literacyfor everyday educational processes

Autoren/Hrsg.

Levinson, Bradley A.

Pollock, Mica

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction (Mica Pollock and Bradley A.U. Levinson).
Histories and Generations.
1. Kathryn Anderson-Levitt.
World Anthropologies of Education.
2. Frederick Erickson.
Culture.
3. Ray McDermott and Jason Raley.
Continuities in the Study of Schooling as a Cultural Site.
4. Hervé Varenne.
Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring out What to DoNext.
5. Elsie Rockwell.
Recovering History in the Anthropology of Education.
6. Douglas Foley.
The Rise of Class Culture Theory in EducationalAnthropology.
7. Harry Wolcott.
If There's Going to Be an Anthropology of Education.
8. Jean J. Schensul.
Building an Applied Educational Anthropology Beyond theAcademy.
Education via Language: Speaking, Writing, Playing.
9. Stanton Wortham and Angela Reyes.
Linguistic Anthropology of Education.
10. Lesley Bartlett, Dina López, Lalitha Vasudevan, andDoris Warriner.
The Anthropology of Literacy.
11. Teresa L. McCarty and Larisa Warhol.
Anthropological Perspectives on Language Education Planning andPolicy.
12. Patricia Baquedano-López and Sera Jean Hernandez.
Language Socialization Across Educational Settings.
13. Joseph Tobin and Allison Henward.
Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth and the Media.
14. H. Samy Alim.
Hip-Hop and the Politics of Ill-literacy.
15. Laura Wright, Joel Kuipers, and Gail Viechnicki.
Argumentation and the Negotiation of Scientific Authority inClassrooms.
States, Identities, and Education.
16. Veronique Benei.
The Predicament of Embodied Nationalisms and EducationalSubjects.
17. Bradley A.U. Levinson.
Toward an Anthropology of (Democratic) CitizenshipEducation.
18. Amy Stambach and Zolani Ngwane.
Development, Post-colonialism, and Global Networks as Frameworksfor Studying Education in Africa and Beyond.
19. Sally Anderson.
Civil Sociality and Childhood Education.
20. Vanessa L. Fong and Sung won Kim.
Chinese Children, Youth, and Education.
21. Fida Adely and Gregory Starrett.
Schools, Skills, and Morals in the Contemporary Middle East.
22. Carlos Miñana Blasco and Carolina Arango Vargas.
Educational Policy, Anthropology, and the State.
Roles, Experiences, and Institutions.
23. Margaret A. Gibson and Jill P. Koyama.
Immigrants and Education.
24. Ángel Díaz de Rada and LiviaJiménez Sedano.
Variations on Diversity and the Risks of BureaucraticComplicity.
25. Sarah Jewett and Katherine Schultz.
Toward an Anthropology of Teachers and Teaching.
26. Wesley Shumar and Shabana Mir.
Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education.
27. Edmund T. Hamann and Lisa Rosen.
What Makes the Anthropology of Education Policy ImplementationAnthropological?
Interventions.
28. Norma González and Leisy Wyman.
The Past, Present, and Future of "Funds of Knowledge".
29. Gunther Dietz and Laura Selene Mateos Cortés.
Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing theAnthropology of Education.
30. Julio Cammarota.
A Socio-Historical Perspective for Participatory Action Researchand Youth Ethnography in Social Justice Education.
31. Janise Hurtig and Andrea Dyrness.
Parents as Critical Educators and Ethnographers ofEducation.
32. Ángela Valenzuela, Patricia Lopez, and EmmanuelGarcía.
The Critical Ethnography of Public Policy and Social Justice inthe Texas State Legislature.

Über Autor(innen)

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).