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The Anthropological Study of Education.
Title:
The Anthropological Study of Education.
Author:
Calhoun, Craig J.
ISBN:
9783110804782
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (372 pages)
Series:
World Anthropology
Contents:
General Editor's Preface -- Preface -- Introduction -- SECTION ONE -- Oral Transmission of Knowledge -- Fosterage -- SECTION TWO -- Resistance to Early Western Education in Eastern Nigeria -- Monastic Education, Social Mobility, and Village Structure in Cambodia -- Patterns of Enculturation in Communal Society -- Theories of Academic and Social Failure of Oppressed Black Students: Source, Motives, and Influences -- Contributions of Anthropology to Cultural Pluralism. Three Case Studies: Australia, New Zealand, and the United States -- Agents of Education and Development in Nepal -- The New Education Plan in Nepal: Balancing Conflicting Values for National Survival -- SECTION THREE -- Emerging Methodological Developments for Research Design, Data Collection, and Data Analysis in Anthropology and Education -- Intragroup Competitive Pressures and the Selection of Social Strategies: Neglected Paradigms in the Study of Adolescent Socialization -- Notes on the Social Organization of High Schools -- American Culture and the School: A Case Study -- Education in Africa: Myths of "Modernization" -- Violence in Urban Public Education in the United States -- Some Characteristics of Police Science as a Career-Related Program in Higher Education -- The "Greening" of the American College of Switzerland: A Descriptive Study of the Radicalization of a Conservative Community -- "The Schooling Process": Some Lakota (Sioux) Views -- The Role of the Anthropologist in Experimental College Evaluations: Some Personal Observations -- SECTION FOUR -- Chicano Bilingual/Bicultural Education -- The Ethnography of Communication and the Teaching of Languages -- Conclusions -- Biographical Notes -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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