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Book SynopsisDespite 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.
Trade Review “[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 matter within such communities... [Another] reason for reading this book is to appreciate the different national histories of qualitative research.” · Qualitative Research
“In this book, authors from non-American contexts have tried to express their own voices and to explore indigenous knowledge about research on anthropology of education. As Sara Delamont puts it in Chapter 2, “The Anthropology of Education is as all-American as Yellowstone Park.… American authors and editors practice routine, casual, unthinking ethnocentrism, which makes all of ‘us’ second-class citizens of ‘their’ global colonialism” (p. 62). With this “global guide of ethnographic studies” in hand, anthropologists and ethnographers in education in the globally different contexts can think and take actions that are different from those of the American routine. It is a voice of the world.” · Frontiers of Education in China
“This ‘global guide’ offers an important invitation for researchers to find inspiration for new lines of inquiry as they learn about practices in other regional and national communities of practice…Education research is a multi-disciplinary field and the collection of essays in this volume draws attention to the contributions anthropologists and ethnographers make to education research through methodologically sound approaches, essential concepts like culture, and critical insights about the role of schooling and educational processes in a multitude of contexts.” · Education Review
“This is an important book, one might almost say a ‘landmark,’ which will fill a big gap in the literature. This volume brings together a rather impressive range of countries, and of authors who are among the very most distinguished ethnographers of education in their countries …There is no truly comparative study of national ethnographic traditions like this.” · Bradley A.U. Levinson, University of Indiana, Bloomington
Table of Contents Acknowledgments
Introduction: Anthropologies and Ethnographies of Education Worldwide
Kathryn Anderson-Levitt
Chapter 1. Towards a Historical Cultural Anthropology of Education: The Berlin Ritual Study
Chrisoph Wulf
Chapter 2. The Parochial Paradox: Anthropology of Education in the Anglophone World
Sara Delamont
Chapter 3. Anthropological Research on Educational Processes in México
Elsie Rockwell and Erika González Apodaca
Chapter 4. Anthropology and Education in the Argentinean Context: Research Experiences in Buenos Aires
María Rosa Neufeld
Chapter 5. Anthropology of Education in Brazil: Possible Pathways
Ana Gomés and Nilma Lino Gomes
Chapter 6. Ethnographies of Education in the French-Speaking World
Maroussia Raveaud and Hughes Draelants
Chapter 7. Anthropology of Education in Italy
Francesca Gobbo
Chapter 8. Central Europe (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Slovakia)
Gábor Eröss
Chapter 9. Educational Anthropology in a Welfare State Perspective: The Case of Scandinavia
Sally Anderson, Eva Gulløv, and Karen Valentin
Chapter 10. The Development of Ethnographic Studies of Schooling in Japan
Yasuko Minoura
Chapter 11. Bamboo Shoots after Rain: Educational Anthropology and Ethnography in Mainland China
Huhua Ouyang
Chapter 12. Ethnography of Education in Israel
Simha Shlasky, Bracha Alpert, and Naama Sabar-Ben Yehoshua
Chapter 13. 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
Notes on Contributors
