Full Description
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.
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anthropologies and Ethnographies of Education Worldwide
Kathryn Anderson-Levitt
Chapter 1. Towards a Historical Cultural Anthropology of Education: The Berlin Ritual Study
Chrisoph Wulf
Chapter 2. The Parochial Paradox: Anthropology of Education in the Anglophone World
Sara Delamont
Chapter 3. Anthropological Research on Educational Processes in México
Elsie Rockwell and Erika González Apodaca
Chapter 4. Anthropology and Education in the Argentinean Context: Research Experiences in Buenos Aires
María Rosa Neufeld
Chapter 5. Anthropology of Education in Brazil: Possible Pathways
Ana Gomés and Nilma Lino Gomes
Chapter 6. Ethnographies of Education in the French-Speaking World
Maroussia Raveaud and Hughes Draelants
Chapter 7. Anthropology of Education in Italy
Francesca Gobbo
Chapter 8. Central Europe (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia)
Gábor Eröss
Chapter 9. Educational Anthropology in a Welfare State Perspective: The Case of Scandinavia
Sally Anderson, Eva Gulløv, and Karen Valentin
Chapter 10. The Development of Ethnographic Studies of Schooling in Japan
Yasuko Minoura
Chapter 11. Bamboo Shoots after Rain: Educational Anthropology and Ethnography in Mainland China
Huhua Ouyang
Chapter 12. Ethnography of Education in Israel
Simha Shlasky, Bracha Alpert, and Naama Sabar-Ben Yehoshua
Chapter 13. Sociological and Ethnographic Research in French-speaking Sub-Saharan Africa
Boubacar Bayero Diallo
Conclusion: Ethnography of Education Around the World: A Thousand Varieties, a Shared Paradigm
Agnès van Zanten
Notes on Contributors
