(Wiley Blackwell Companions to Anthropology) 1st Edition
by Bradley A. Levinson (Editor), Mica Pollock (Editor)
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
