Description
Book SynopsisTrade ReviewThis book is aimed at anthropologists and other scholars of education and its role in development. It will be of interest to scholars of Morocco and the Middle East/North Africa region, particularly those interested in youth culture and in growing concerns in the region about the diminishing opportunities for young people in changing regional economies. Learning in Morocco joins a number of important recent works examining these issues in the region.
* H-France *
This sophisticated book provides an elegant and useful analysis of the situation of teaching and learning in Moroccan schools. The book explores the numerous strategies used by students to surmount difficulties and to increase their chances of success. It reveals the remarkable influence of linguistic conflicts and the role they play in students' integration, participation, and achievement.
* American Anthropologist *
Learning in Morocco should be an important reference for students, researchers, and teachers working on education in the postcolonial world.
* Anthropology and Education Quarterly *
Charis Boutieri's study of language politics in Morocco . . . constitutes the latest in a long line of insightful anthropological studies of North African societies and cultures, and anotherne addition to Indiana University Press's 'Public Cultures of the Middle East and North Africa' series.
* Middle Eastern Studies *
Table of ContentsWriting about Language: Terminology and Transliteration
1. Schools in Crisis
Part I
2. Study Antigone to become a Scientist!
3. Paradox and Passion in the Tower of Babel
Part II
4. Inheritance, Heritage, and the Disinherited
5. Once Upon a Time, There Was a Happy Old Berber Couple
Part III
6. Desires in Languages
7. Out of Class, Into the Street
Notes
References
Index
