Schooling the Symbolic Animal
Social and Cultural Dimensions of Education
Contributions by Keith Basso, Gregory Bateson, Howard S. Becker, Caroline Bledsoe, Yehudi Cohen, R. W. Connel et al, Emile Durkheim, Donna Eder, Margaret Eisenhart, Julianna Flinn, Signithia Fordham, Clifford Geertz, James B.Greenberg, Shirley Brice Heath, Jules Henry, Dorothy Holland, Bradley A. U. Levinson, Margaret Mead, Hugh Mehan, Jan Nespor, John Ogbu, Sherry B. Ortner, Deborah Reed-Danahay, Laura Rival, Margaret Sutton, Carlos Velez-Ibáñez, Raymond Williams Edited by Bradley Levinson, Kathryn M. Borman, Margaret Eisenhart, Michele Foster, Amy E. Fox
Publication date:
22 November 2000Length of book:
408 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersDimensions:
232x154mm6x9"
ISBN-13: 9780742501201
This anthology introduces some of the most influential literature shaping our understanding of the social and cultural foundations of education today. Together the selections provide students a range of approaches for interpreting and designing educational experiences worthy of the multicultural societies of our present and future. The reprinted selections are contextualized in new interpretive essays written specifically for this volume.
Beginning and advanced students alike will find much to learn from this rich and stimulating collection of essays. Written by many of the most articulate and visible scholars in the field, the twenty-four essays and five thematic chapters in Schooling the Symbolic Animal are testament to the vigor, diversity, and critical thinking of anthropological and sociological thought on education.