Full Description
Presenting European Anthropology of Education through eleven studies of European schools, this volume explores the constructing and handling of difference and sameness in the central institutions of schools. Based on ethnographic studies of schools in Greece, England, Norway, Italy, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Spain, Austria, Russia, Germany, the Netherlands and Denmark, it illustrates how anthropological studies of schools provide a window to larger society. It thus offers insights into cultural lessons taught to children through policies, institutional structures and everyday interactions, as well as into schools' entanglement in state projects, cultural processes, societal histories and conflicts, and hence into contemporary Europe.
Contents
Introduction: The Anthropological Study of Schools. Presenting European Anthropology of Education
Laura Gilliam and Christa Markom
Part I: Constructing and Handling Difference and Sameness in the Everyday of School
Chapter 1. Rendering Sameness and Difference Pedagogical. Care for Kindergarten Pupils in a Stigmatized Swiss Suburb
Ursina Jaeger
Chapter 2. Teaching Equality, Teaching Hierarchy: Moral Lessons in the Schools of the Danish Welfare State
Laura Gilliam
Chapter 3. Approaching Difference through Control or Care: Diverging School Ethos in the Norwegian Unified School
Ingrid Smette
Chapter 4. "Silencing" or "Being Silent" from a Child-Centred Perspective: Accomplices to the Invisibility of Differences in an Austrian School
Christa Markom
Part II: Constructing and Handling Difference and Sameness through the Policies, Curriculum and Structures of School
Chapter 5. Schooling and Age Imaginaries: Establishing the Foundations of Sameness and Difference in an English Secondary School
Patrick Alexander
Chapter 6. Education and integration of the Others: Roma Education in the Czech Republic
Markéta Levínská, David Doubek and Dana Bittnerová
Chapter 7. Regionalism and Minority Identities in Putin's Russia: Ethnographic Perspectives on School Education and Belonging
Dilyara Müller-Suleymanova
Chapter 8. Activating Muslims: Citizenship in Dutch Islamic schools#
Jamal Ahajjaj, Martijn de Koning and Thijl Sunier
Chapter 9. Teaching History and Performing the Nation: The Production of National Citizens in Greek Primary Education
Ioannis Manos
Part III: Special Contributions
Chapter 10. Anthropology and/in Intercultural Education in Italy: The Winding Roads to Diversity and Identity
Francesca Gobbo
Chapter 11. Civil Enculturation in The Netherlands, Britain, Germany, and France: a Look Back and Ahead
Sabine Mannitz and Thijl Sunier
Afterword: Towards an Anthropology of Education in Europe: Insights, Challenges and Potential
Spyrou Spyros
