The Anthropological Study of Education / / ed. by Craig J. Calhoun, Francis A. Janni.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Social Sciences - <1990
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2011]
©1976
Year of Publication:2011
Edition:Reprint 2011
Language:English
Series:World Anthropology : An Interdisciplinary Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (360 p.) :; Num. figs. and tabs.
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Table of Contents:
  • I-XII
  • 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
  • Education and the Problem of Continuity
  • Biographical Notes
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects