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Kat Anderson-Levitt - Anthropologies of Education: A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling - 9780857452733 - V9780857452733
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Anthropologies of Education: A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling

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Description for Anthropologies of Education: A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling Hardcover. 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. Editor(s): Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M. Num Pages: 288 pages, 2 tables. BIC Classification: JHM; JN. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 24. Weight in Grams: 620. A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling. 288 pages, 2 tables. Editor(s): Anderson-Levitt, Kathryn M. 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. Cateogry: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. BIC Classification: JHM; JN. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 24. Weight: 620.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Berghahn Books
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
Number of Pages
362
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780857452733
SKU
V9780857452733
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About Kat Anderson-Levitt
Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at the University of Michigan–Dearborn and a former editor of Anthropology and Education Quarterly. She is the author of Teaching Cultures: Knowledge for Teaching First Grade in France and the United States (Hampton 2002) and the editor of Local Meanings, Global Schooling: Anthropology and World Culture Theory (Palgrave Macmillan 2003). She is ... Read more

Reviews for Anthropologies of Education: A Global Guide to Ethnographic Studies of Learning and Schooling
“[The volume’s] importance lies in the fact that it provides a counterweight to what the editor Anderson-Levitt describes as 'hegemonic' English-language ethnographies of education… it is a reminder that, for all the talk of globalisation of social research, there are significant and lively national, regional and linguistic qualitative research communities. These chapter-length accounts introduce the educational debates and issues that ... Read more

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