Table of Contents
List of Contributors viii
Introduction 1Mica Pollock and Bradley A.U. Levinson
Part I Histories and Generations 9
1 World Anthropologies of Education 11Kathryn M. Anderson-Levitt
2 Culture 25Frederick Erickson
3 The Ethnography of Schooling Writ Large, 1955–2010 34Ray McDermott and Jason Duque Raley
4 Education, Cultural Production, and Figuring Out What to Do Next 50Hervé Varenne, with Jill Koyama
5 Recovering History in the Anthropology of Education 65Elsie Rockwell
6 The Rise of Class Culture Theory in Educational Anthropology 81Douglas Foley
7 “If There’s Going to Be an Anthropology of Education …” 97Harry F. Wolcott
8 Building an Applied Educational Anthropology beyond the Academy 112Jean J. Schensul
Part II Education via Language: Speaking, Writing, Playing 135
9 Linguistic Anthropology of Education 137Stanton Wortham and Angela Reyes
10 The Anthropology of Literacy 154Lesley Bartlett, Dina López, Lalitha Vasudevan, and Doris Warriner
11 The Anthropology of Language Planning and Policy 177Teresa L. McCarty and Larisa Warhol
12 Language Socialization across Educational Settings 197Patricia Baquedano-López and Sera Jean Hernandez
13 Ethnographic Studies of Children and Youth and the Media 212Joseph Tobin and Allison Henward
14 Hip Hop and the Politics of Ill-literacy 232H. Samy Alim
15 Argumentation and the Negotiation of Scientific Authority in Classrooms 247Laura J. Wright, Joel Kuipers, and Gail Viechnicki
Part III States, Identities, and Education 263
16 The Predicament of Embodied Nationalisms and Educational Subjects 265Véronique Benei
17 Toward an Anthropology of (Democratic) Citizenship Education 279Bradley A.U. Levinson
18 Development, Post-colonialism, and Global Networks as Frameworks for the Study of Education in Africa and Beyond 299Amy Stambach and Zolani Ngwane
19 Civil Sociality and Childhood Education 316Sally Anderson
20 Anthropological Perspectives on Chinese Children, Youth, and Education 333Vanessa L. Fong and Sung won Kim
21 Schools, Skills, and Morals in the Contemporary Middle East 349Fida Adely and Gregory Starrett
22 Educational Policy, Anthropology, and the State 368Carlos Miñana Blasco and Carolina Arango Vargas
Part IV Roles, Experiences, and Institutions 389
23 Immigrants and Education 391Margaret A. Gibson and Jill P. Koyama
24 Variations on Diversity and the Risks of Bureaucratic Complicity 408Ángel Díaz de Rada and Livia Jiménez Sedano
25 Toward an Anthropology of Teachers and Teaching 425Sarah Jewett and Katherine Schultz
26 Cultural Anthropology Looks at Higher Education 445Wesley Shumar and Shabana Mir
27 What Makes the Anthropology of Educational Policy Implementation ‘Anthropological’? 461Edmund T. Hamann and Lisa Rosen
Part V Interventions 479
28 The Past, Present, and Future of “Funds of Knowledge” 481Norma González, Leisy Wyman, and Brendan H. O’Connor
29 Multiculturalism and Intercultural Education Facing the Anthropology of Education 495Gunther Dietz and Laura Selene Mateos Cortés
30 A Sociohistorical Perspective for Participatory Action Research and Youth Ethnography in Social Justice Education 517Julio Cammarota
31 Parents as Critical Educators and Ethnographers of Schooling 530Janise Hurtig and Andrea Dyrness
32 The Critical Ethnography of Public Policy for Social Justice 547Patricia D. Lopez, Angela Valenzuela, and Emmanuel García
Index 563