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Anthropology of Education: an introduction

Abstract:

What is the anthropology of education, and what does it contribute to the study of education? Those questions orient this special issue of Educação & Realidade. Anthropologies of education vary around the world (Anderson-Levitt, 2012aANDERSON-LEVITT, Kathryn M. (Ed.). Anthropologies of Education: a global guide to ethnographic studies of learning and schooling. New York: Berghahn Books, 2012a.). Indeed, as Elsie Rockwell (2002ROCKWELL, Elsie. Constructing Diversity and Civility across the United States and Latin America. In: LEVINSON, Bradley; CADE, Sandra; PADAWER, Ana; ELVIR, Ana Patricia (Ed.). Ethnography and Educational Policy across the Americas. Westport: Praeger, 2002. , p. 3) notes, “[...] the analytic categories used to construct ethnographic texts are not autonomous; they are rooted in the societies in which they are first used, and they reflect actual ways of constructing difference in those societies”. Nonetheless, we might identify some fundamental commitments that have evolved over time.

Keywords:
Anthropology of Education; Ethnography; Social Theory

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