A companion to the anthropology of education / / edited by Bradley A.U. Levinson and Mica Pollock

• Pubblicazione: Chichester, [England] : , : Wiley-Blackwell, , 2011; ©2011
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (594 p.)
• Disciplina: 306.43
• Soggetto topico: Educational anthropology
• Classificazione: SOC002010
• Persona (resp. second.): LevinsonBradley A. <1963->; PollockMica <1971->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
• Nota di contenuto: A Companion to the Anthropology of Education; Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I Histories and Generations; 1 World Anthropologies of Education; 2 Culture; 3 The Ethnography of Schooling Writ Large, 1955-2010; 4 Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring Out What to Do Next; 5 Recovering History in the Anthropology of Education; 6 The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology; 7 "If There's Going to Be an Anthropology of Education ..."; 8 Building an Applied Educational Anthropology beyond the Academy; Part II Education via Language: Speaking, Writing, Playing ; 9 Linguistic Anthropology of Education10 The Anthropology of Literacy; 11 The Anthropology of Language Planning and Policy; 12 Language Socialization across Educational Settings; 13 Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth and the Media; 14 Hip Hop and the Politics of Ill-literacy; 15 Argumentation and the Negotiation of Scientific Authority in Classrooms; Part III States, Identities, and Education; 16 The Predicament of Embodied Nationalisms and Educational Subjects; 17 Toward an Anthropology of (Democratic) Citizenship Education ; 18 Development, Post-colonialism, and Global Networks as Frameworks for the Study of Education in Africa and Beyond19 Civil Sociality and Childhood Education; 20 Anthropological Perspectives on Chinese Children, Youth, and Education; 21 Schools, Skills, and Morals in the Contemporary Middle East; 22 Educational Policy, Anthropology, and the State; Part IV Roles, Experiences, and Institutions; 23 Immigrants and Education; 24 Variations on Diversity and the Risks of Bureaucratic Complicity; 25 Toward an Anthropology of Teachers and Teaching; 26 Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education ; 27 What Makes the Anthropology of Educational Policy Implementation 'Anthropological'?Part V Interventions; 28 The Past, Present, and Future of "Funds of Knowledge"; 29 Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing the Anthropology of Education; 30 A Sociohistorical Perspective for Participatory Action Research and Youth Ethnography in Social Justice Education; 31 Parents as Critical Educators and Ethnographers of Schooling; 32 The Critical Ethnography of Public Policy for Social Justice; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "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"--
• Titolo autorizzato: A companion to the anthropology of education
• ISBN: 1-4443-9670-6; 1-78268-364-X; 1-283-17840-0; 9786613178404; 1-4443-3183-3; 1-4443-9671-4; 1-4443-9669-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910677114003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Blackwell companions to anthropology ; ; 18.