Alternative Anthropological Perspectives on Education

Explores educational processes from a variety of disciplinary orientations. This work issues the challenge: What sort of research should one conduct if s/he believes the commonly held idea that education is a broader process than it is made to be when one takes schooling as a paradigmatic institution of education?

This work adds to the scholarship in the field by exploring educational processes in the broadest manner and from a variety of disciplinary orientations. At its core is the challenge it issues: What sort of research should one conduct if s/he believes the commonly held idea that education is a broader process than it is made to be when one takes schooling as a paradigmatic institution of education?

Foreword to the Series
Acknowledgement
General Introduction
Alternative Anthropological Perspectives on Education Framework - Herve Varenne Framework
Public Education and the Education of the Public - Lawrence A. Cremin
Difficult Collective Deliberations: Anthropological Notes Toward a Theory of Education - Herve Varenne
I. Local Education into Cultural Conditions
Introduction to Part I: Local Education into Cultural Conditions - Herve Varenne
Hidden Education among African Americans during Slavery - Grey Gundaker
Human Capital or Human Connections? The Cultural Meanings of Education in Brazil - Lesley Bartlett
Enclothing Identity: A Hmong Girl's Journey into the Politics of Identification in Thailand - Tracy Johnson
Is Music 'Haram'? Jordanian Girls Educating Each Other About Nation, Faith and Gender in School - Fida Adely
On Sentimental Education among American College Students - Portia Sabin
II. Renewed Educative Constitutions of Future Conditions
Introduction to Part II: Renewed Educative Constitutions of Future Conditions - Herve Varenne
The Cockpit's Empty Chair: Education through Appropriating Alienation at a Chicago Technology Museum - Anne Lorimer
(Mis-) Education into American Racism - Linda Lin
Regrading the Eighth Grade: Disciplining those who Discipline in a Jesuit Middle School of the American Midwest - James Mullooly
Hard of Hearing in Sweden: Educating about and for Pathology - Alison Stratton
Outspoken Indigenes and Nostalgic Migrants: Maori and Samoan Educating
Performances in an Aotoearoa New Zealand Cultural Festival - Ilana Gershon and Solonaima Collins
Discussion
From John Dewey to an Anthropology of Education - Ray McDermott and Jason Raley
Toward a Comprehensive System of Education - Ed Gordon and Michael Rebell.