Anthropologies of education: A global guide to ethnographic studies of learning and schooling

Abstract

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, it shows 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. -- from back cover. Towards a historical cultural anthropology of education: the Berlin ritual study / Christoph Wulf -- The parochial paradox: anthropology of education in the Anglophone world / Sara Delamont -- Anthropological research on educational processes in Mexico / Elsie Rockwell and Erika González Apodaca -- Anthropology and education in Brazil: possible pathways / Ana Maria Rabelo Gomes and Nilma Lino Gomes -- Ethnographies of education in the French-speaking world / Maroussia Raveaud and Hugues Draelants -- Anthropology of education in Italy / Francesca Gobbo -- Central Europe (Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia) / Gábor Eröss -- Educational anthropology in a welfare state perspective: the case of Scandinavia / Sally Anderson, Eva Gulløv, and Karen Valentin -- The development of ethnographic studies of schooling in Japan / Yasuko Minoura -- Bamboo shoots after rain: educational anthropology and ethnography in mainland China / Huhua Ouyang -- Ethnography of education in Israel / Simha Shlasky, Bracha Alpert, and Naama Sabar Ben-Yehoshua -- 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.