"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"-- Provided by publisher.

"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"-- Provided by publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Mica Pollock, Bradley A.U. Levinson -- Histories and Generations. World Anthropologies of Education / Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt -- Culture / Frederick Erickson -- The Ethnography of Schooling Writ Large, 1955-2010 / Ray McDermott, Jason Duque Raley -- Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring Out What to Do Next / Hervé Varenne, Jill Koyama -- Recovering History in the Anthropology of Education / Elsie Rockwell -- The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology / Douglas Foley -- "If There's Going to Be an Anthropology of Education" / Harry F. Wolcott -- Building an Applied Educational Anthropology beyond the Academy / Jean J. Schensul -- Education via Language: Speaking, Writing, Playing. Linguistic Anthropology of Education / Stanton Wortham, Angela Reyes -- The Anthropology of Literacy / Lesley Bartlett, Dina López, Lalitha Vasudevan, Doris Warriner -- The Anthropology of Language Planning and Policy / Teresa L McCarty, Larisa Warhol -- Language Socialization across Educational Settings / Patricia Baquedano-López, Sera Jean Hernandez -- Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth and the Media / Joseph Tobin, Allison Henward -- Hip Hop and the Politics of Ill-Literacy / H. Samy Alim -- Argumentation and the Negotiation of Scientific Authority in Classrooms / Laura J. Wright, Joel Kuipers, Gail Viechnicki -- States, Identities, and Education. The Predicament of Embodied Nationalisms and Educational Subjects / Véronique Benei -- Toward an Anthropology of (Democratic) Citizenship Education / Bradley A.U. Levinson -- Development, Post-colonialism, and Global Networks as Frameworks for the Study of Education in Africa and Beyond / Amy Stambach, Zolani Ngwane -- Civil Sociality and Childhood Education / Sally Anderson -- Anthropological Perspectives on Chinese Children, Youth, and Education / Vanessa L. Fong, Sung won Kim -- Schools, Skills, and Morals in the Contemporary Middle East / Fida Adely, Gregory Starrett -- Educational Policy, Anthropology, and the State / Carlos Miñana Blasco, Carolina Arango Vargas -- Roles, Experiences, and Institutions. Immigrants and Education / Margaret A. Gibson, Jill P. Koyama -- Variations on Diversity and the Risks of Bureaucratic Complicity / Angel Diaz de Rada, Livia Jimenez Sedano -- Toward an Anthropology of Teachers and Teaching / Sarah Jewett, Katherine Schultz -- Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education / Wesley Shumar, Shabana Mir -- What Makes the Anthropology of Educational Policy Implementation 'Anthropological'? / Edmund T. Hamann, Lisa Rosen -- Interventions. The Past, Present, and Future of 'Funds of Knowledge' / Norma Gonzalez, Leisy Wyman, Brendan H. O'connor -- Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing the Anthropology of Education / Gunther Dietz, Laura Selene Mateos Cortés -- A Sociohistorical Perspective for Participatory Action Research and Youth Ethnography in Social Justice Education / Julio Cammarota -- Parents as Critical Educators and Ethnographers of Schooling / Janise Hurtig, Andrea Dyrness -- The Critical Ethnography of Public Policy for Social Justice / Patricia D. Lopez, Angela Valenzuela, Emmanuel García.

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