Anthropology Education Quarterly

Author : Bradley A. Levinson,Mica Pollock
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 592 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2016-01-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781119111665

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A Companion to the Anthropology of Education by Bradley A. Levinson,Mica Pollock Pdf

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

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 490 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39076001560494

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Anthropology & Education Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anne Haas Dyson
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807770167

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Writing Superheroes by Anne Haas Dyson Pdf

Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of 7- to 9-year olds, Writing Superheroes examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literacy curriculum. In one sense, the book is about children "writing superheroes"-about children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win. The stories, however, also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people-boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanors, and social classes. The book, then, is also about children as "writing superheroes." With the assistance of their teacher, the observed children became superheroes of another sort, able to take on powerful cultural storylines. In this book, Anne Dyson examines how the children's interest in and conflicts about commercial culture give rise to both literacy and social learning, including learning how to participate in a community of differences.

Author : George Spindler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Social Science
ISBN : UOM:39015061027291

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Education and Cultural Process by George Spindler Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39076002538788

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Anthropology & Education Quarterly by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bonnie J. Leadbeater,Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater,Niobe Way
Publisher : NYU Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1996-06
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 9780814751084

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Urban Girls by Bonnie J. Leadbeater,Bonnie J. Ross Leadbeater,Niobe Way Pdf

Contributors present a portrait of low-income, urban American adolescent girls based on fact rather than stereotype, aiming to fill the gap in research about adolescent girls. They explore girls' attitudes and alternatives in areas such as identity, family and peer relationships, sexuality, health, and career development, often allowing the girls to speak for themselves. For undergraduate and graduate students in psychology, sociology, economics, and women's studies, as well as policymakers. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Angelina E. Castagno,Teresa McCarty
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781317312468

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The Anthropology of Education Policy by Angelina E. Castagno,Teresa McCarty Pdf

Advancing a rapidly growing field of social science inquiry—the anthropology of policy—this volume extends and solidifies this body of work, focusing on education policy. Its goal is to examine timely issues in education policy from a critical anthropological, ethnographic, and comparative perspective, and through this to theorize new ways of understanding how policy "does its work." At the center is a commitment to an engaged anthropology of education policy that uses anthropological knowledge to imagine and foster more equitable and just forms of schooling. The authors examine the ways in which education policy processes create, reflect, and contest regimes of knowledge and power, sorting and stratifying people, ideas, and resources in particular ways. In contrast to conventional analyses of policy as text-based, dictated, linear, and rational, an anthropological perspective positions policy at the interface of top-down, bottom-up, and meso-level processes, and as de facto and de jure. Demonstrating how education policy operates as a social, cultural, and deeply ideological process "on the ground," each chapter clearly delineates the implications of these understandings for educational access, opportunity, and equity. Providing a single "go to" source on the disciplinary history, theoretical framework, methodology, and empirical applications of the anthropology of education policy across a range of education topics, policy debates, and settings, the book updates and expands on seminal works in the field, carving out an important niche in anthropological studies of public policy.

Author : Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780857452740

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Anthropologies of Education by Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt Pdf

Despite international congresses and international journals, anthropologies of education differ significantly around the world. Linguistic barriers constrain the flow of ideas, which results in a vast amount of research on educational anthropology that is not published in English or is difficult for international readers to find. This volume responds to the call to attend to educational research outside the United States and to break out of “metropolitan provincialism.” A guide to the anthropologies and ethnographies of learning and schooling published in German, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Slavic languages, Japanese, and English as a second language, show how scholars in Latin America, Japan, and elsewhere adapt European, American, and other approaches to create new traditions. As the contributors show, educators draw on different foundational research and different theoretical discussions. Thus, this global survey raises new questions and casts a new light on what has become a too-familiar discipline in the United States.

Author : Steven Tozer,Bernardo P. Gallegos,Annette Henry,Mary Bushnell Greiner,Paula Groves Price
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 747 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2011-07-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135283803

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Handbook of Research in the Social Foundations of Education by Steven Tozer,Bernardo P. Gallegos,Annette Henry,Mary Bushnell Greiner,Paula Groves Price Pdf

This groundbreaking volume helps readers understand the history, evolution, and significance of this wide-ranging, often misunderstood, and increasingly important field of study.

Author : George and Loui Spindler
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 458 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2000-06
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781135661458

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Fifty Years of Anthropology and Education 1950-2000 by George and Loui Spindler Pdf

Brings together seminal articles by the Spindlers-widely regarded as the founders of educational anthropology-and binds them together with a master commentary by George Spindler. Presents a unified view of the Spindlers' work & development of the field.

Author : Stanton E.F. Wortham,Betsy Rymes
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Education
ISBN : UOM:39015056195053

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Linguistic Anthropology of Education by Stanton E.F. Wortham,Betsy Rymes Pdf

Over the years, linguistic anthropological research has shown how classrooms are socializing institutions and how language functions as one medium through which this socialization is accomplished. Early work in the field has captured the immediacy of social practice and language use in educational contexts, and has created useful characterizations of variations in communicative competence. The present work builds on the strengths of prior work, showing how new theoretical concepts and empirical methods developed in linguistic anthropology over the last decade can further illuminate educational settings. The authors introduce an updated Linguistic Anthropology of Education which recognizes that, in the rapidly changing field of cultural production within which children and teachers operate today, the exploration of multiple, pre-existing forms of communicative competence is not enough. This volume elaborates theory and illustrates the tools and practices of the Linguistic Anthropology of Education to account for today's research context in which the multiplicity of identity, and the multiple ways language can be used to represent it, have important ramifications for how learning and social reproduction emerge within educational contexts.

Author : Brian L. Foster,Steven W. Graham,Joe F. Donaldson
Publisher : IAP
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-02-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781641131452

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Navigating the Volatility of Higher Education by Brian L. Foster,Steven W. Graham,Joe F. Donaldson Pdf

Applied Anthropology provides a new perspective on today’s higher education environment. Volatile and unpredictable forces affect research and instruction across many sectors and levels, and global dynamics are among the strongest drivers of change. Further, within American higher education, daunting complexity and multiple layers of activity weave a rich tapestry of environment, structure, and culture. This book provides three complementary anthropological perspectives as a framework for analyzing the ground-shifting changes underway in higher education – the higher education mindset, political and policy perspectives, and instruction and learning. These domains intersect with many operational dimensions of higher education – research, health care, athletics, economic development, fiscal management, planning, and faculty roles/challenges – another way of framing the complexity of the situation we are addressing. Book chapters also provide a set of implications for higher education policy. The book concludes with a vision of next steps in research and practice to further anthropology’s contribution to higher education policy and practice. The intended audience includes both academic and professionals—e.g., faculty and students in departments of higher education, anthropology, and education policy. Higher education leaders, administrators, governing board members, and many others will find the book helpful in providing insight into today’s challenges. The book will also be of use to professionals outside higher education who work on policy issues, on meeting the needs of employers, and on preparing students for careers in public service.

Author : Guadalupe San Miguel
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2013-06-03
Category : Education
ISBN : 9781603449373

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Chicana/o Struggles for Education by Guadalupe San Miguel Pdf

Much of the history of Mexican American educational reform efforts has focused on campaigns to eliminate discrimination in public schools. However, as historian Guadalupe San Miguel demonstrates in Chicana/o Struggles for Education: Activisim in the Community, the story is much broader and more varied than that. While activists certainly challenged discrimination, they also worked for specific public school reforms and sought private schooling opportunities, utilizing new patterns of contestation and advocacy. In documenting and reviewing these additional strategies, San Miguel’s nuanced overview and analysis offers enhanced insight into the quest for equal educational opportunity to new generations of students. San Miguel addresses questions such as what factors led to change in the 1960s and in later years; who the individuals and organizations were that led the movements in this period and what motivated them to get involved; and what strategies were pursued, how they were chosen, and how successful they were. He argues that while Chicana/o activists continued to challenge school segregation in the 1960s as earlier generations had, they broadened their efforts to address new concerns such as school funding, testing, English-only curricula, the exclusion of undocumented immigrants, and school closings. They also advocated cultural pride and memory, inclusion of the Mexican American community in school governance, and opportunities to seek educational excellence in private religious, nationalist, and secular schools. The profusion of strategies has not erased patterns of de facto segregation and unequal academic achievement, San Miguel concludes, but it has played a key role in expanding educational opportunities. The actions he describes have expanded, extended, and diversified the historic struggle for Mexican American education.

Author : Evelyn Jacob,Cathie Jordan
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : Education
ISBN : 9780893919375

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Minority Education by Evelyn Jacob,Cathie Jordan Pdf

This volume brings the perspectives of educational anthropology to the consideration of the education of ethnic and linguistic minority students and to the challenges often associated with that enterprise. Built around a core of chapters originally published in the Anthropology and Education Quarterly, which presented two major anthropological perspectives on school success and failure for minority students, focuses on the cultural difference approach and the discontinuity approach. Each is represented by a theoretical chapter and two case studies. Chapters contrast anthropological and nonanthropological perspectives on minority education, outlining key concepts and methods in educational anthropology for readers who may be unfamiliar with the field. A later section offers recent modifications or additions to the two major perspectives. These chapters examine the role of parents and community in minority education, call attention to the cultural groupings that an form in response to the school context itself, focus attention on children as active decision-makers in school, and question the validity of the whole conceptualization of school success and failure. Concluding chapters on applying anthropological perspectives to policy and practice.

Author : Satish Kedia,John van Willigen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 377 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780313068911

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Applied Anthropology by Satish Kedia,John van Willigen Pdf

Applied Anthropology: Domains of Application, edited by Satish Kedia and John van Willigen, comprises essays by prominent scholars on the potential, accomplishments, and methods of applied anthropology. Domains covered in the volume include development, agriculture, environment, health and medicine, nutrition, population displacement and resettlement, business and industry, education, and aging. The contributors demonstrate in compelling ways how anthropological knowledge, skills, and methodologies can be put to work in addressing social, economic, health, and technical problems facing societies today. With their genuine commitment to protecting the diversity and vitality of human communities, applied anthropologists working in real-life settings have and will continue to have a lasting impact on people around the world. The editors enrich the volume by providing introductory and concluding chapters that offer a detailed historical context for applied anthropology and an exploration of its future directions.